Ask PG: Do you review rejected YC apps to find startups who then made it big?

Re:Ask PG: Do you review rejected YC apps to find startups w... by aashaykumar92 on Saturday January 25, 2014 @06:43PM (#7123054)

Reviewing rejected apps would be a waste of time given how many apps YC has received. Also, what does 'big' mean? I doubt a startup exists that was rejected by YC then grew to a $1B valuation--someone would probably have heard of that by now, made a big deal of it, and those of us on HN would know. But I don't doubt that YC-rejected startups have gone on to raise a few rounds of funding and/or may have even made <$100M exits.

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Re:Ask PG: Do you review rejected YC apps to find startups w... by namenotrequired on Saturday January 25, 2014 @07:09PM (#7123131)

Reviewing rejected apps would be a waste of time given how many apps YC has received

Only a small number of those will have made it big since then, though (by whatever definition). So they'd only have to look at a small amount to see if there were any indicators that they might have overlooked.

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Re:Ask PG: Do you review rejected YC apps to find startups w... by lquist on Saturday January 25, 2014 @07:00PM (#7123100)

Reviewing rejected apps would be a waste of time given how many apps YC has received.

A script could probably do the most time consuming bits.

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