[elkynator]

Let's be honest. Even solely from money and evaluation point, being accepted to YC increases your evaluation for your startup significantly. I'm not advocating that this is why you need to apply, but FOMO on YC companies is real among VC's. On demo day same companies who are pre-seed or just started get new rounds on $15Mil+ evaluation. From what I have heard and seen the biggest value is advice, but getting so much hype to raise big money is not bad for founders.

[haolez]

I've heard from a VC recently that YC is usually associated with teams of very young entrepreneurs and some VCs avoid this team profile. Not sure if this is a widespread stereotype.