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philwelch on April 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is There a Y Combinator Valuation Bubble or Not?

YC has had a few small-exit founders come back though--do you hold that into consideration? In other words, would you fund an unambitious startup if it gave a promising entrepreneur a potential launchpad to go bigger next time?

brandnewlow on April 16, 2012 [–]

Entrepreneurs don't look too promising if their startups are clearly "unambitious".

philwelch on April 17, 2012 | [–]

Unambitious is relative. Posterous was less ambitious than Airbnb, for instance. The Fridge was less ambitious than Heroku.

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