Y Combinator Starts Seeding Ideas To Startups
TechCrunch Aug 16 09Y Combinator sees no shortage of startups that apply to be a part of their funding cycles. But they don't always see all the ideas they'd like to see come out of the classes. So starting with the upcoming Winter 2010 cycle, they have a new idea called RFS, Requests For Startups. Basically, Y Combinator will issue some ideas of what they're looking for in any cycle, and will accept the ones that pitch the best way to do the idea. Now, to be clear, Y Combinator will not be forgoing its usual method of combing over any and all startup pitches outside of the ones they lay out. "We don't expect responses to RFSes will ever be more than a fraction of the applications we accept. Full story...
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