Ask YC: When can we expect to know our YC application status?

Post by hendler » Wed, Apr 09, 2008, 8:54 PM UTC

Post by keating » Wed, Apr 09, 2008, 8:55 PM UTC

wheels wrote: post #9

dlytle wrote: post #7

My recommendation: go out and get a cool drink from some hippy juice bar, relax, and then go to bed before midnight. Read a book or watch a movie instead of checking until tomorrow morning. (I'm not being sarcastic; that's what I'm planning on doing. Blueberry-orange-pineapple smoothie ahoy!) Finding out about the results sooner won't alter them, and the anticipation/worry is almost always worse than the reveal of wh…

Or better yet, just assume you're not getting it, because even if you get invited, you statistically still probably aren't going to be accepted. Keep building your application, chasing up contacts, figuring out the next step and planning on taking over the world with or without YC.

Post by chasingsparks » Wed, Apr 09, 2008, 9:01 PM UTC

paul_reiners wrote: post #2

A watched kettle never boils.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 09, 2008, 9:04 PM UTC

keating wrote: post #13

wheels wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or better yet, just assume you're not getting it, because even if you get invited, you statistically still probably aren't going to be accepted. Keep building your application, chasing up contacts, figuring out the next step and planning on taking over the world with or without YC.

A year ago they kept 2 out of 3 invitees IIRC.

Post by mpc » Wed, Apr 09, 2008, 9:06 PM UTC