By luck do mean like, riding a wave (unknowingly) just when it has started which turns out to be a pretty huge wave thus enabling you to build something massive.
YC encourages founders to be concise and get to the point, so if they wanted to say "we are pretty US-centric but you still have a chance", they could have and should have just said in plain language.
> They provide numbers, they assume the reader is intelligent and hope they will learn new things and unlearn wrong assumptions.
This exactly is the issue people here are intelligent and that is why they can see the glaring gaps in the way the data is presented.
I think people are little pissed because the article chose to go the data route and dint provide the complete information for people to infer from.
My customers read newspapers who do cover startups in the city, in this case would it better for me to focus more on these outlets than the typical pure tech outlets. fyi : my location is Chennai,India.
