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Re:Is There a Y Combinator Valuation Bubble or Not? on Monday April 16, 2012 @08:47PM (#3850346)
<<The $210M sale of OMGPOP and the $1B Instagram purchase feel like a bubble, but you have to step back for a moment and realize that OMGPOP was purchased for 2% of the value of Zynga and Instagram for 1% of the value of Facebook.>>

how can relative valuations prove/disprove bubble valuations? poor point in my mind.

Re:New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @11:49PM (#3701694)
The converse of this is interesting to me as well. Now someone with an idea and not necessarily all the hacker chops could apply. The idea being that you pair up the product person with an idea with a technical team that applied (but had no idea).