<story><title>YC Reject - We&apos;ve been offered an investment to fund our Summer 2011 class</title><url>http://www.ycreject.com/2011/04/yc-reject-has-been-approached-with.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>phamilton</author><text>There was an article a month or two ago about the problems with tech accelerators gaining popularity.&lt;p&gt;I can&apos;t find the link but it basically said the accelerator bubble is going to happen when the secondary groups get the &apos;B&apos; talent startups, and then the next groups get the &apos;C&apos; talent...&lt;p&gt;While I have no idea about the quality of YC Reject groups, this does kinda have that same feel to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bad_user</author><text>Talent and potential are very subjective metrics -- I&apos;m not sure YC gets the best candidates. They only get the best as judged by the pool accessible to them, and by their selection criteria.&lt;p&gt;That said, yc reject groups probably will suffer from a smaller talent pool (since they are indeed option B), and from a lack of experienced people to make a reasonably good selection.</text></comment>
<story><title>YC Reject - We&apos;ve been offered an investment to fund our Summer 2011 class</title><url>http://www.ycreject.com/2011/04/yc-reject-has-been-approached-with.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>phamilton</author><text>There was an article a month or two ago about the problems with tech accelerators gaining popularity.&lt;p&gt;I can&apos;t find the link but it basically said the accelerator bubble is going to happen when the secondary groups get the &apos;B&apos; talent startups, and then the next groups get the &apos;C&apos; talent...&lt;p&gt;While I have no idea about the quality of YC Reject groups, this does kinda have that same feel to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>allanscu</author><text>Even YC has always said that there were promising groups from those that did not make the cut.  They&apos;ve admitted that they aren&apos;t the best at picking winners.  So you can&apos;t say that the A groups were better than the B groups.  Many of the B groups (and even single co-founders) were just a victim of YC&apos;s rules and capacity.</text></comment>