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hzay on June 17, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Y Combinator's Graham Says Startups Must Improve L...

I felt he deliberately did not go into this topic. He was asked "How do you pick ~60 out of ~2000 applications?", and his entire response could be paraphrased as "We have practice". It made me wonder if it was because he thought it was too complex a topic for a quick TV show.

pg on June 17, 2011 [–]

I wrote about how I read applications here:

http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801739

hzay on June 17, 2011 | | [–]

I wasn't suggesting that you were unwilling to divulge this information. I meant that I felt you did not wish to discuss it in that forum.

someperson on June 19, 2011 | | [–]

Semi-related: The YC application for Dropbox from the link above seems to have been taken down.

Does anyone have a mirror?

pg on June 20, 2011 | | [–]

http://bit.ly/dropbox-yc-app

someperson on June 20, 2011 | | [–]

Thanks Paul.

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