[SurfScore]

Having "product, customers, revenue, and whatnot" does not a successful startup make. You have to continually execute, improve, and grow at a very high clip. YC is probably one of the best, if not the best, resources for advice and direction on how to do just that.

Startups are so hard you have to take every bit of help you can get.

[dl_terp]

I agree. There are so many things that need to be improved, optimized, moved forward.

If YC could improve their viral coefficient by .2 that could be the difference between success and failure.

If YC could improve homepage optimization and customer acquisition flow in a meaningful way, again, disaster diverted.

So many things that experts know how to move forward that us new guys often miss out on. At such an early level, it's like adding gasoline to a fire.