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Re:Ask PG: How many applications? by nailer on Friday October 12, 2007 @07:42PM (#67074)
(these numbers are completely rough, but what I've been working out in my head)

Last season they had around 10 companies. These were the top 5%. So I gathered there were two hundred applicants for that season.

PG says in another comment there were a lot more than before (probably because of news.yc), so maybe double that for this year.

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Re:Ask PG: How many applications? by pg on Friday October 12, 2007 @08:02PM (#67078)
The numbers from last cycle are public knowledge: 435 applications, 20 of which we funded.
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Re:Ask PG: How many applications? by ryanspahn on Saturday October 13, 2007 @04:22AM (#67232)
Does YCombinator each semester fund 20 or sometimes it is less?

Also, who are the other organizations like YCombinator?

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Re:Ask PG: How many applications? by rms on Saturday October 13, 2007 @04:24AM (#67234)
They fund however many they think are qualified.

Techstars directly copied the model, Seedcamp is inspired by YC and invests a little more for a bigger stake.

Two VCs, Lightspeed and Highland Capital have summer programs for student entrepreneurs.

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Re:Ask PG: How many applications? by matth on Saturday October 13, 2007 @11:12PM (#67554)
Don't forget YEurope.

Apparently, Hacker News user "enki" started this one if I'm not mistaken.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=enki

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