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If possible, how can we make that work?
Any advice for single founder applying? Most of the people I talked to advice me to find a co-founder to increase my odds of getting in. I don't necessarily agree with them. I have been doing this startup for over an year now. It has growth with a strong potential for more.
Do you have anything against Spaniards? I have seen lot of Spaniards applying to YC and they got rejected/ignored with awesome projects. Do you even read all applications? Posted applications with all urls tracked and we saw 0 clicks... How can you judge our product without testing it? Did you even watched our pitch? But in the other hand, I saw a lot of stupid companies backed by YC (Uber for X, Airbnb for X, Tinder…
Hi Sam, I'm a graduating college senior, and I've accepted a job at a very big company in the tech industry. Right now, it makes the most financial sense for me to join a big company and pay off my debt quickly, but at some point in the future I'd love to scratch that entrepreneurial itch and apply to YC. How do I maximize my time at a big company to gain relevant skills to keep the possibility of a startup open in t…
Four years later, I'm incredibly glad I didn't do it. I'm convinced I would have made bad technical decisions and doomed the company. I'm not a perfect software engineer now, but I'm worlds better than I was. Writing and deploying software on someone else's dime has given me invaluable experience, and I'm certain it's prepared me to be successful in my own company some day soon.
While at a big company, I'd still encourage you to work on side projects and see where they go. Doing that will give you even more experience in building an MVP.
Is there anything YC could do to help YC companies with housing? It's not trivial for teams during YC to get housing in SFBA, but they have enough upside to put up with a lot, and usually figure out something. It's really hard for employees 1-N, especially at sub-market salaries, but without 10% equity stakes, to move to SFBA. It pretty much restricts you to people already-here, people who will live college dorm styl…
I was really excited by Campus, and hope we see a lot more startups with similar ideas.
I wasnt invited to the Fellowship, I'm still working on the idea but my cofounders lost interest. Should I apply or wait till I find new cofounders.
What is the best way to get connected to the YC network if you are not a YC alum?
I'm mid-application for the YC Winter 2016 cycle, but I'm concerned because neither my cofounder nor I come from a technical background, yet our idea is technical. Do you see this as a deterrent to being accepted?