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YC demo day valuation tensions, how VCs can find gems, Substack's performance & more | E1716

This Week in Startups

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Y Combinator Hacks Angel Investors

The founder friendly era of venture capital is a recent phenomenon. It's only the last 15 years that founders were able to gain power over venture capitalists. Y Combinator says, don't raise money before demoing. And they kind of get everybody to agree to that.

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