[tmatthewj]

Most recent startups from India backed by YC seem to be solving problems within the country. Examples - Razorpay - Stripe for India, Kisan Network - Online Agriculture marketplace in India, Innov8 - Co-working spaces for Indian startups. Is that relevant when YC looks at an application that comes from an Indian startup / co-founders? We could generalise the question by replacing India with developing economies with good infrastructural problems to solve.

How would an Indian startup trying to build a global product primarily for the U.S / Europe market fit into the scheme of things?

[sama]

We'd be delighted to fund an Indian company trying to build something for the entire world.

My general criticism of non-US startups (this is very general and there are important exceptions) is that too many are building the <<US Company>> for <<home country>>.

I think it's more exciting to build something brand new that someone in the US will copy.

[mkagenius]

If you are a billion dollars business, they would love to talk - geographies don't matter.

[tmatthewj]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts sama and mkagenius.