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Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by kilroy123 »

nautical wrote: post #50
jaysonelliot wrote: post #45

Mistakes happen, but it should not have taken them over two hours to contact people who'd been celebrating their acceptance. We got the "you're in!" email, and the whole team was pumped. Having to go back to them hours later to let them down was really hard to do. The fact that Ycombinator sent the "oops, sorry!" email from a do-not-reply address and basically did nothing to make up for it showed a real lack of respe…

And worst part is had shared with family and friends .. such a let down ..

I'm more embarrassed than anything. I put it on Twitter/Facebook.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by chriselles »

I’m not upset with YC.

The program is free after all.

So I’m not a paying customer.

And I am incredibly grateful to YC for everything they do for the startup community.

But it is absolutely gutting to get the thumbs up, tell the team, and then get the thumbs down.

I can handle it, but my team is demoralised.

Time to find something to boost them up.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by snowmaker »

buttminer wrote: post #85

I got an email 2 hours ago saying that I didn't get in, then just one one a few minutes ago saying that I was in the advisor track? Sounds great... but is the system sending correct emails for round 2? Don't want to get my hopes up.

The second email is the correct one - if you're unsure, email startupschool@ycombinator.com

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by hellojebus »

snowmaker wrote: post #36

Guys - we are deeply sorry for this screw-up. I know we got people's hopes up only to let you down, and I feel terrible about it. While it doesn't excuse our mistake, for what it's worth, Startup School makes the classes and all the materials available online to everyone. So even if you didn't get accepted to the advisor track, we hope you will follow along, watch the videos, and find the material useful. My apologie…

Pretty certain I incorrectly received the "Ooops, you didn't actually email"

Please confirm this bug. My company is basically a unicorn.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by sodafountan »

fabiandesimone wrote: post #90
tolth wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My cofounder who led the application will be doing so in a moment! Thanks.

If you're going to do this, maybe do it for everyone and not buried in a comment.

Yeah, this should be an actual initiative. Work overtime if you have to, at least give us a bit of the mentorship that everybody here wanted.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by snowmaker »

torartc wrote: post #53
jaysonelliot wrote: post #45

Mistakes happen, but it should not have taken them over two hours to contact people who'd been celebrating their acceptance. We got the "you're in!" email, and the whole team was pumped. Having to go back to them hours later to let them down was really hard to do. The fact that Ycombinator sent the "oops, sorry!" email from a do-not-reply address and basically did nothing to make up for it showed a real lack of respe…

The "do not reply" was particularly upsetting.

I can totally understand why. It was yet another mistake - we rushed to get the email out and didn't realize it was sent from a no-reply address. You can reach us at startupschool@ycombinator.com and you are absolutely welcome to do so.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by heurist »

acutesoftware wrote: post #69
snowmaker wrote: post #36

Guys - we are deeply sorry for this screw-up. I know we got people's hopes up only to let you down, and I feel terrible about it. While it doesn't excuse our mistake, for what it's worth, Startup School makes the classes and all the materials available online to everyone. So even if you didn't get accepted to the advisor track, we hope you will follow along, watch the videos, and find the material useful. My apologie…

That really stung to get the "Your in" then "Sorry, Out" emails, but mistakes happen and appreciate the apology here. Did the "Your in" emails go to everyone who applied, or was it a subset of applications?

Judging by similar forum threads elsewhere, it looks like some who were accepted were initially rejected and many who were rejected were initially accepted.
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