Whether YC and others will reduce their size remains to be seen, but if there was an accelerator bubble, it looks like correction time.

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This is a slow and deliberate correction, rather than an exploding bubble.

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First, the current correction comes on the heels of two severe bear markets in the past decade: The Internet Bubble of 2000-2002 and Credit Crisis of 2007-2009.

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