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Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by fouc » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 2:57 AM UTC

rboyd wrote: post #18

sweet, looking forward to those discount codes

Joke, or is that a thing?

Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by proofread » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 2:57 AM UTC

sandslash wrote: post #3

muhneesh wrote: post #2

Hey guys - this is awesome and compassionate; thank you

Thank you for giving us another chance. We're truly sorry for all the trouble this caused.

I truly think that YC is going to be surprised by the entrepreneurs in this group.

Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by mindcrime » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 2:59 AM UTC

Nice. Understand this is going to stress the infrastructure pretty severely, but it seems like both A. the right thing to do, and B. an interesting experiment / learning opportunity.

Looking forward to the class.

Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by joejerryronnie » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:00 AM UTC

Nice job guys, totally the right call.

Is this the beginning of a fully crowd sourced Y Combinator?

Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by dang » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:00 AM UTC

proofread wrote: post #14

geoff wrote: post #9

Earlier 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.

Could you explain what happened more? 4,000 companies were accepted but 11,000 received acceptance emails?

Yes, and the 4,000 received rejections. It was a big boolean fuckup.

Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by syntaxing » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:00 AM UTC

For someone out of the loop, what exactly are in the discount code and the 10K equity free grant? Does everyone get it on the completion of the course or does YC choose a selected few?

Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by sandslash » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:00 AM UTC

aliakhtar wrote: post #12

This 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 ?

We have a limited number of advisors but YC partners/staff will be on the forum to help out in any way we can.

Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by dang » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:01 AM UTC

For anyone who hasn't seen the previous thread where this all played out, it's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17804371.

Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by proofread » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:01 AM UTC

mercat wrote: post #6

More than 15000 startups... I wonder how that will play out.

I bet that 25-40% complete the course fully. They expected 4000 so it will be around there. We will see. Great move by YC and really excited to experience the program!

Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by bobmazanec » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:01 AM UTC

Gutsy moves starting YC & offering SS to begin with.

Public stumble today—it happens.

Gutsy recovery.

Thanks.

Now it's up to all of us to make the most of it and make it more than it would have been.