Tell HN: Startup School acceptances have been emailed

#1

Post by frisco » Sat, Oct 02, 2010, 5:48 AM UTC

Go check your email!

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Post by limedaring » Sat, Oct 02, 2010, 5:50 AM UTC

I'm in! I even had a dream last night that I wasn't accepted. I feel rather ridiculous.

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Post by joneath » Sat, Oct 02, 2010, 6:05 AM UTC

I got in and I am not not even a active contributer to HN (read everyday, just don't comment or post). Pretty excited to hear PG, Ron Conway, Reid Hoffman, and Mark Zuckerberg. Should be a good time.

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Post by dko » Sat, Oct 02, 2010, 6:07 AM UTC

I setup a saved Twitter search to make sure I didn't miss anything. That said, see you guys there!

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#5

Post by gigafemtonano » Sat, Oct 02, 2010, 6:07 AM UTC

I refuse to accept that I suck Paul. Seriously. You're 1-5 people trying to judge on what you think is going to work. I personally think reddit gave you a bit of an ego trip. I think your vision of the future is clouded by visions of the past. The future is strange and you're going to miss it. Enjoy your 15 minutes.

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Post by cglee » Sat, Oct 02, 2010, 6:10 AM UTC

Rejected! Guess that means I can do rails rumble now.

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Post by jedwhite » Sat, Oct 02, 2010, 6:15 AM UTC

Not in. Oh well. Sounds like an overwhelming response and bigger venue again next year. Looking forward to watching some of it on justin.tv though.

Have a productive day everyone who made it in. :)

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Oct 02, 2010, 6:16 AM UTC

gigafemtonano wrote: post #5

I refuse to accept that I suck Paul. Seriously. You're 1-5 people trying to judge on what you think is going to work. I personally think reddit gave you a bit of an ego trip. I think your vision of the future is clouded by visions of the past. The future is strange and you're going to miss it. Enjoy your 15 minutes.

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Oct 02, 2010, 6:16 AM UTC

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Post by milkshakes » Sat, Oct 02, 2010, 6:19 AM UTC

gigafemtonano wrote: post #5

I refuse to accept that I suck Paul. Seriously. You're 1-5 people trying to judge on what you think is going to work. I personally think reddit gave you a bit of an ego trip. I think your vision of the future is clouded by visions of the past. The future is strange and you're going to miss it. Enjoy your 15 minutes.

i'm not sure what the startup school email said (i live on the east coast), but my rejection from yc was pretty civil...

We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding. Please don't take it personally. The quality of the applications continues to increase with each cycle, and since there's a limit on the number of interviews we can do, we had to turn away a lot of genuinely promising groups.

Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know we make lots of mistakes. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing.

We're trying to get better at this, but it's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.