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We have a limited number of advisors but YC partners/staff will be on the forum to help out in any way we can.
As some of the 'accepted' companies with advisors quit / drop out and spots open up, could those spots be filled with promising companies who don't have advisors?
I hope somebody runs the data in the future to see if there was a statistical difference in outcomes between the companies intended to be accepted vs. not :-)
Immediately start tracking all the applicants and what stages they are in, how much funding/traction/etc they have and which segment vertical they are in and then seeing how well they all do.
This will be a very interesting experiment.
I hope somebody runs the data in the future to see if there was a statistical difference in outcomes between the companies intended to be accepted vs. not :-)
That is a good idea! We conducted an inadvertent A/B test :)
sweet, looking forward to those discount codes
Joke, or is that a thing?
In addition, startups will receive over $50,000 in credits to a variety of other services, Digital Ocean, Amazon Web Services, and Clerky."
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Could you explain what happened more? 4,000 companies were accepted but 11,000 received acceptance emails?
Wild Speculation: typo in a limit clause. Probably only a few extra thousand got accepted but instead of weed them out they figured fuck it. I'm going to also guess and say user accounts were created in a not easily rolled back way after the fact.
It's been a pretty tough day here at YC but we're all really happy with the final decision we came to!
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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.