Hard Tech Startups
&quot;Hard tech startups<p>Some people think YC only funds software startups.&quot;<p>Kinda strange that software is not seen by YC as &quot;hard tech&quot;.<p>I think there&#x27;s lots of hard tech in software but the way venture capitalists&#x2F;angel investors tell it, you should only ever build software that can be made in a weekend and then iterated upon.<p>The outcome of this is the X thousandth dog walking social network for uber drivers staying at AirBNB - i.e. stuff that you can build in a weekend and iterate on. And this is why demo days are full of such lightweight software applications - people are actively discouraged from taking the time to build something large scale and, well, &quot;hard&quot;.<p>Sometimes it makes sense to make a big bet on building some complex software that might take months or years to build, with lots of moving parts, but once complete solves a big problem.  That is software that is &quot;hard tech&quot;.