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Electrons and Atoms

A friend recently asked me for my list of current breakout companies. I made it, and noticed that all of them had only one thing in common....

Published 2013-08-28 3 min read 454 words 4 topics
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A friend recently asked me for my list of current breakout companies. I made it, and noticed that all of them had only one thing in common....

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A friend recently asked me for my list of current breakout companies. I made it, and noticed that all of them had only one thing in common. I then went back through the last three YC batches and looked at our top-ranked companies (although we get it wrong plenty of times, it’s reasonably predictive). These companies had the
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