staunch, I wish I could upvote you more. This is an excellent article you linked to, and it may very well be the case that the YC network adds sufficient value to make up for the "insane" valuation. Thank you.
That said, I'm still hoping for an answer to the original question. I find the lack of ecommerce companies very strange.
I know the answer: Yes they would absolutely invest in an ecommerce retailer company. They have no "categories" or "types" they avoid religiously.
The filter isn't "ecommerce" but whether it's a "scalable" idea or not.
They might ask "How could you envision your company becoming Really Big in the future?"
Bezos would have said "We're doing books now, but our plan is to be the Wal-Mart of the web".
If you can convincingly argue that your niche businesses in scarves/ties are the gateway to a scalable business you would probably be a good candidate for YC.
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You may want to negotiate a better deal than that, but I doubt you're so far along that it would be "insane".
http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html
staunch, I wish I could upvote you more. This is an excellent article you linked to, and it may very well be the case that the YC network adds sufficient value to make up for the "insane" valuation. Thank you.
That said, I'm still hoping for an answer to the original question. I find the lack of ecommerce companies very strange.
I know the answer: Yes they would absolutely invest in an ecommerce retailer company. They have no "categories" or "types" they avoid religiously.
The filter isn't "ecommerce" but whether it's a "scalable" idea or not.
They might ask "How could you envision your company becoming Really Big in the future?"
Bezos would have said "We're doing books now, but our plan is to be the Wal-Mart of the web".
If you can convincingly argue that your niche businesses in scarves/ties are the gateway to a scalable business you would probably be a good candidate for YC.