“You can get a significant percentage of the market in times of economic downturn by simply staying alive,” startup accelerator Y Combinator wrote in an internal email to its founders this week. The board was one of ten topics in a memo aimed at helping businesses navigate. the overwhelming generation of economic recession. Email is a replacement for the temperament of just a few weeks ago, when a bunch of Y Combinator startups, many of which have already increased the venture capital budget, were introduced to the public at Demo Day. the first to get Y Combinator’s new popular check of $500,000 and aggressively focused on opportunities abroad.