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Perhaps the whole idea of the noidea app set the stage for the disaster that was S12. Even though only one noidea app was accepted strictly speaking perhaps bot
by mkeblx 13y ago
Perhaps the whole idea of the noidea app set the stage for the disaster that was S12. Even though only one noidea app was accepted strictly speaking perhaps both a signal sent that the 'idea bar' was lowered and and a lowering of standards. This seems to me to hold a lot of explanatory power, much more so than the idea that multiplying 66 by 1.27 would be the key thing in turning something that works into something unmanageable.
I read the post S12 (post noidea) essay (http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html) as a (if unacknowledged) reaction of someone trying to understand and elucidate why ideas are actually very important (going against the common refrain that 'execution' is all that matters) after having recently seen poor ideas get by a selective process.
- maximz 13y agoI remember there were some organizational issues - is that what you mean by "the disaster that was S12"?
- pg 13y agomuch more so than the idea that multiplying 66 by 1.27 would be the key thing in turning something that works into something unmanageable Ever run into an n^2 algorithm?
- kami8845 13y agoI think the noidea idea was quite good, but quite possibly what struck me as the worst thing about it was the philosophy it implied "oh you don't need an idea to be an entrepreneur, just start a company anywayy!lol". I know that's not the whole truth of it and that many people wind up changing their idea, but that's the feeling it gave me (and I feel many others).
- Locke1689 13y agoOut of curiosity, what makes you think that managing YC is n^2? Certainly everyone would need to communicate with you -- that's n. The question is whether or not each YC pair would need to communicate with each other. That is n^2 and seems like an excessively high level of message passing.
- argonaut 13y agoHuman memory is not linear. The difference between having 10 teams and having to remember their names and their ideas and their challenges and remembering 20 teams is more than a 2x increase in difficulty.
- pg 13y agoIn its then form, every partner had to know what every startup was doing, and the number of partners was a function of the number of startups.