Pairwise and Y Combinator: Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur?

Re:Pairwise and Y Combinator: Do you have what it takes to b... by pg on Friday March 30, 2007 @06:26PM (#7704)

The difference between this and spam is that the cycle time is too long for people to learn efficiently how to beat the system. A spammer can write an email and send it to his gmail acct and know in 30 sec if it beats the filter. We only accept applicants every 6 months.

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Re:Pairwise and Y Combinator: Do you have what it takes to b... by amichail on Friday March 30, 2007 @06:43PM (#7709)

Won't such a test limit the diversity of Y Combinator founders? And so you might get stuck in a local maximum as a result.

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Re:Pairwise and Y Combinator: Do you have what it takes to b... by pg on Friday March 30, 2007 @07:38PM (#7724)

We would never use only the test. At most we'd use it to prompt us to take a second look at someone we were about to reject.

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Re:Pairwise and Y Combinator: Do you have what it takes to b... by amichail on Friday March 30, 2007 @08:03PM (#7730)

I guess you might try applications like these as well:

online dating

airport security

immigration

finding cofounders

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