<story><title>Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding</title><url>http://ycombinator.com/apply.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kaolinite</author><text>PG: What would your advice be to someone with no co-founder? Apply anyway and see what you think, or don&apos;t even bother and wait until you&apos;ve found someone to work with?&lt;p&gt;I appreciate the issues with single founder companies however am finding it hard to locate someone with the required interest and skill in my area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pg</author><text>Get a cofounder.  If your startup succeeds, you could spend 5 years or more working on it.  It&apos;s rounding error to spend 6 months making a concerted effort to find a cofounder first.  And while it can be hard to find a cofounder, it&apos;s not as hard as starting a successful startup.</text></comment>
<story><title>Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding</title><url>http://ycombinator.com/apply.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kaolinite</author><text>PG: What would your advice be to someone with no co-founder? Apply anyway and see what you think, or don&apos;t even bother and wait until you&apos;ve found someone to work with?&lt;p&gt;I appreciate the issues with single founder companies however am finding it hard to locate someone with the required interest and skill in my area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glaugh</author><text>For what it&apos;s worth, about 15% of last batch had only one founder: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.statwing.com/a-statistical-portrait-of-a-y-combinator-batch/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.statwing.com/a-statistical-portrait-of-a-y-combi...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>