A great way to save the situation. And the resulting community created by 15k startups might lead to interesting directions and developments. I'm looking forward to participating and meeting our peers out there.
Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted
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#12This is fantastic. It would be great if there could be a way for teams to 'level up' and get access to an advisor + the AWS / Stripe credits. Is that possible @yc ?
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#1315,000, huh? That’s a lot more than I expected. How many had you originally accepted? (And thus, how many have advisors?)
We had originally accepted about 4000 - although our goal has always been to make our MOOC as much about "open" as we possibly can. Our own misstep has caused us to accelerate things.
Does that mean you have 160 advisors scheduled for this?
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#1415,000, huh? That’s a lot more than I expected. How many had you originally accepted? (And thus, how many have advisors?)
We had originally accepted about 4000 - although our goal has always been to make our MOOC as much about "open" as we possibly can. Our own misstep has caused us to accelerate things.
Could you explain what happened more?
4,000 companies were accepted but 11,000 received acceptance emails?
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#15I thought what happened earlier was pretty shitty - this is 100% the right action to take and totally above & beyond. Congratulations to all startups who applied and get to move forward!
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
We had originally accepted about 4000 - although our goal has always been to make our MOOC as much about "open" as we possibly can. Our own misstep has caused us to accelerate things.
Does that mean you have 160 advisors scheduled for this?
yes, in that neighborhood.
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#17I applied, but haven't received a rejection or and acceptance email. Does this announcement mean I'm in?
You may be the only person who didn't receive a rollercoaster's worth of emails today. Maybe check with startupschool@ycombinator.com to make sure they got your application?
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#18sweet, looking forward to those discount codes
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#19Thank you.. !!!
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#20Startup School lesson one: keep iterating :)