I should write about this. I never realized that it might be useful to someone. Thank you for opening my eyes to this. I&#x27;m hip deep in contract work right now (3 due diligences back-to-back, totally crazy, working over Christmas on one of the reports) but I promise that as soon as I have my hands free I&#x27;ll try to expand on these comments in a blog post.<p>Y combinator is a real game changer in many ways, and one of those ways is that founders now find themselves with a support group of others who have been in similar situations and who have a lot of knowledge about subjects like these. But there is a large group of founders currently not in YC and for those especially it might be advantageous. As a small time investor I&#x27;m sometimes in the role of the procedural jerk who makes sure that from the founders perspective all the i&#x27;s are dotted and the t&#x27;s are crossed. Usually this is not without friction but I&#x27;ve yet to hear a founder not express (sometimes many years later) that they&#x27;re happy we went that route. Experience - even a little bit - can be worth gold if there is a power asymmetry and such asymmetries are more the rule than the exception where founders meet capital.