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I'm amazed at the people who continually doubt the value of YC. Why not just ask those founders who have been part of YC - nearly all of them will tell you being in YC was invaluable. Isn't that all the proof that is needed?

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Well, there's this bias people have to say whatever choice they made was the best one, so the founder's opinions is not necessarily enough.

Asking participants is not a great way to judge an activity's value, due to our natural biases. The study mentioned below comes to mind. That said, I suspect the value is high.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance#Empirical_...

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