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Re: Tell HN: Startup School acceptances have been emailed

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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. :)

Likewise denied. A bit of justin.tv and hackin' away on a current project will occur in its place.

Re: Tell HN: Startup School acceptances have been emailed

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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…

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Re: Tell HN: Startup School acceptances have been emailed

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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.

There's a difference between being rejected from something (which has a fairly low acceptance rate, strong applicant pool, and brief application) and sucking.

Now, if you're going to complain and get discouraged by one unimportant failure (hell, you can still see the talks on Justin.tv), then you do suck because everyone that doesn't suck has failed lots of times and gotten over it.

Re: Tell HN: Startup School acceptances have been emailed

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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.

Use this "rejection" to empower you to build something amazing. I know if I was rejected I would use it as motivation to be great. No one can tell you what you are made of besides yourself.

Re: Tell HN: Startup School acceptances have been emailed

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post #16

Afterparties?

Good question. I'm flying in from LA. I would definitely stick around for a party or two afterwards if I knew about 'em in advance.

I'll be flying from LA too. Maybe we should cab-pool or something?

Re: Tell HN: Startup School acceptances have been emailed

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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.

You should ask for a refund.

PG, the YC team, and YC as a company is there to help those who they think they should help. It's their discretion. Decrying YC isn't going to help.

Refusing that you suck is awesome. PG would agree that they do judge on what they think is going to work. But thinking you have a better idea than anyone else about what the future holds, or whether YC is going to be a part of that future, is pointless.

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