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Congratulations to the 2024 YC Top Companies! Since 2005, YC has funded over 4,500 startups, including many that have become household names. The companies on this year's list are collectively valued at $458B, with a combined $57.2B in total revenue generated in 2023. Here are some more facts about the YC Top Companies this year: 🔸 13 companies (27%) on the list have had an exit, 11 are publicly traded. 🔸 Together, these companies employ over 80k people. 🔸 Over 50% are headquartered in the Bay Area. 🔸 Over 90% were founded by 2 or more co-founders. Congrats to the founders who are making something people want!

Over 50% of the businesses in the most recent group of Y Combinator were admitted to the program solely based on an idea, without requiring a minimum viable product or a plan for generating revenue. Additionally, out of 272 startups, only 32 were established by individuals who identified as Hispanic or Latino. A list of all the startups from the Winter Batch of 2023 is available here in case you missed the most recent Demo Day. #startups #YC #Demoday #WB23 https://lnkd.in/e_mJ6E8K

Really epic advice here from Sam Altman (back in his days as the Y Combinator President) talking about how the BEST startups start by capturing LOTS of a super small market. Read More 👇 Soooooo many startups I speak with and we work with start with these HUGE, astronomically big markets and say "LOOK, we only need to capture 1% and that's TONS of money!". What Sam is conveying here, is that in the research at Y Combinator, they found that their biggest startup successes were ones that actually went for a tiny sub-set of these big markets, or even chased small markets with the intention of dominating them. I think a lot of this can be distilled into the old "Vitamin vs Pain Killer" argument. Finding people who are desperate for what your solution provides and it offers them instant / valuable relief from their problem is super important. If you are a small company, you can only provide so much value. So finding a small thing you can make a massive impact on is paramount to being "sticky" enough to grow. Great advice here. #startupadvice #ycombinator #startuptips

This is great advice for any founders/startups . Focus on a small market and do your best to capture that first before you address the larger whole.

In my sessions with entrepreneurship Students on "Entrepreneurial solutions to world problems" The Top-10 Problems of India which can be solved , Interesting to see , it's exactly the same what Investors would like to Fund it ! Fundable Ideas for 2024 ! #startups #founders #funders

A mistake a lot of investors make is judging a YC company by its current state at Demo Day vs. the long-term potential of its founders. I invested in Hightough at $15M (Carry at the time) and although I categorically hate travel startups, I really wanted to work with the founders (ex-Segment). My position is now valued >40x and more importantly I'm excited to write the first check to Hightouch folks who leave to start their own company. YC is about making a bet on young, ambitious, talented people who likely have a few startups in them. #ycombinator #siliconvalley #startupstories #venturecapital

At Y Combinator, they often discuss the ideas and categories they’d like to see more people working on. Occasionally they gather up all of these ideas and share them in what they call a Request for Startups, or RFS — a Y Combinator tradition that goes back over a decade. Below is the most recent YC's Request For Startups. What do you think of it? Check my free newsletter for more insights: https://lnkd.in/djVbgiKG

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Starting a #business can be challenging and growing it can be even harder without the right guidance and support. This is where #accelerators come in and help by increasing growth, fostering innovation, and providing startups with funding & support in today’s constantly evolving market. The very first Accelerator, Y Combinator, was founded in the year 2005. Fast forward to today, YC has played a vital role in scaling companies like Airbnb, Stripe, Zepto, Groww, India, and Reddit, Inc. They set the standard that 3000+ accelerators in the world are aspiring towards, by supporting #businesses that are building immense value. We at Earlyseed Ventures understand the fundamental need for Accelerators like YC. Having partnered up with Venture Catalysts | India's First Integrated Incubator and Evolve X to provide our portfolio startups with the opportunities they require to succeed. To explore such #opportunities get in touch through: https://lnkd.in/d9P-Jcne