Hard Tech Startups
"Hard tech startupsSome people think YC only funds software startups."Kinda strange that software is not seen by YC as "hard tech".I think there's lots of hard tech in software but the way venture capitalists/angel investors tell it, you should only ever build software that can be made in a weekend and then iterated upon.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, "hard".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 "hard tech".