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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started ( today and 2005 ), largely due to the emergence of cloud technologies, no-code tools, and artificial intelligence. the free YC Startup School courses). The fall of players like Newchip and On Deck are not isolated incidents.

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Ycombinator - Where unicorns are born

Don Dodge

They were part of the Ycombinator Cambridge class of 2007, after being rejected by YC in 2005 and 2006. Seeing little opportunity here, Drew and Arash moved the company to Silicon Valley later that year. Back in 2005 no one anticipated the success of YCombinator, not even its founders. None of the local VC firms invested.