Ask HN: YC startups in competition?

Re:Ask HN: YC startups in competition? by benologist on Friday November 02, 2012 @12:53PM (#4733551)

YC is a numbers game, most of them are going to fail or fail to matter and it won't be because there was 2 or more doing similar things. There's also room for multiple winners in almost every industry as well on the off chance that happens.

There are already YC startups competing: Exec and Pathjoy are doing house cleaning. Grid and Skysheet for online spreadsheets. Lots of ways to do photosharing. Heroku, AppHarbor and DotCloud as PaaS's, etcetera.

There's a very, very long list of companies here that have lots more examples:

http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies.php

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Re:Ask HN: YC startups in competition? by datarake on Friday November 02, 2012 @01:24PM (#4733718)

but... what about the component of fear described in this article? http://paulgraham.com/growth.html

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Re:Ask HN: YC startups in competition? by benologist on Friday November 02, 2012 @01:32PM (#4733757)

YC is at the beginning or early stage of most startups, acquisition is usually years later and there's a million things that stop a startup reaching that point.

Just worry about your startup not someone else's.

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Re:Ask HN: YC startups in competition? by datarake on Friday November 02, 2012 @01:09PM (#4733642)

thank you. In this case, maybe to compete an existing startup could be even better :))

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