That's why Y Combinator is funding startups this summer as usual, even if the batch has to be partly or wholly remote. YC knows this from experience. Airbnb was in the winter 2009 batch.
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Investors: Any startup that gets started during the next few months is disproportionately likely to succeed. Success depends most of all on determination, and imagine how determined you have to be to start a startup in the middle of a global pandemic.
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(Airbnb was founded about a year before. But they were dead at the point when they applied to YC in late 2008. They made the decision to resuscitate themselves and take another shot when everyone else was running for cover.)
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Basically this Video
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Starting my new company right now. Very happy to read this. Thanks, Paul.
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How could you know if it's not using the corona virus to hold up its profitability?
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Wouldn't the question be; Will this problem still be valid after the pandemic ends?
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