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A comment on Going Through Y Combinator (YC S13): Lessons Learned. Parent comment

Re:Going Through Y Combinator (YC S13): Lessons Learned by wellboy on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @02:27PM (#7342443)
It's much different if you're a second time founder (you have sold acompany before) such as Zac's co-founder.

If you're a first time founder without significant traction, I think it's very unlikely to get into YC. I can imagine less than 5% of first time founders in the past few years that got into YC didn't have decent traction. Does anyone have numbers on that?

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Re:Going Through Y Combinator (YC S13): Lessons Learned by zt on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @02:30PM (#7342458)
Woah woah. I've never sold a company before. Dan was the COO of Giftly, which sold.
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Re:Going Through Y Combinator (YC S13): Lessons Learned by wellboy on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @02:48PM (#7342570)
Yahh, I was posting the comment just when I looked it up and changed it! ;)
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