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Did YC News increase the awareness of Y Combinator Funding?

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I was wondering how the viral effect of YC News had on the application process? More applications? Better/Worse applications? I was not aware of Y Combinator before the news feature. It is a good marketing case study. Compliments to the the YC team on the tactic (even if it was not the original purpose).

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I think most hackers already knew about YC before we made the news site, so I doubt it made us better known. Our plan of using news.yc as a way to detect talent did work, though. Even as early as this spring it helped us decide who to invite for interviews.

YC isn't a fund, btw.

What did you go by, insightful comments? Number of submissions?

you mean those that pretended through their comments and tried to look good?

because 90% the time I read a comment during March it was like it was sent through s-mail and was stucked between a stamp and an envelope

the YC site uses the term funding.

Y Combinator is a new kind of venture firm specializing in funding early stage startups. We help startups through what is for many the hardest step, from idea to company.

The title of the link you're seeing is different from what it was. Originally it described YC as a fund, which it isn't.

Sorry. I wrote fund to keep the title short.

Definitely yes. I had heard of YCombinator (look, they invested in another company), but I've never been interested in applying for the program. News gives me a reason to visit this domain, or at least have it in my feed reader, and provides a lot of useful links - even for us non-startuppers.

My impression is that techcrunch et al. have increased the awareness of YC lately...unclear if YC pr is responsible for the increased coverage or if it is viral/result of YC companies doing well...

How is YC not a fund? No LPs?

I think to really get any meaningful data, you'd have to do regressions to get rid of other things, like the startups becoming widely known (reddit, for instance), time passing, and so on. I don't think you can, in other words.

This is not a scientific study. Just my own curiosity.

Yes.

When I meet a developer who hasn't heard of YC or news.YC, I look at them like a Betamax.

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