When the next round?
"There are two each year, one from January through March and one from June through August." -- http://ycombinator.com/about.html
Ask HN: Didn't get in YC S11? Are you going to charge forwards anyway?
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Re: Ask HN: Didn't get in YC S11? Are you going to charge forwards anyway?
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Wow! Very interesting. You'll have a kick butt team and two successful apps (Groups and Calender) that I know people use all the time. It would be interesting to see how the selection process works.
Yeah I have no idea why they didn't even want to interview us. I mean, I saw the batch of YC companies in winter 2010. I would humbly like to say that we seem to be closer to what YC says they are looking for, than several of those companies were. For example, we applied in Winter 2010, YC rejected us without an interview, and then we went ahead and secured investment and launched and already have 80k users and nearl…
Why do you need YC?
Re: Ask HN: Didn't get in YC S11? Are you going to charge forwards anyway?
#43My opinion is that applying for funding should merely be something to bring 'excitement' to an otherwise tough' monotonous' life of an entrepreneur. Whether you get funded does not only depend on the ingenuity of your idea but a match between you and the funder. You should continue working because you believe in your idea (to some extent but over-believing is unhealthy) and simply because what else would you do with…
The process definitely did this for us.