I feel like that one of the spirit of YC is try something new, well done. I still have a question, can I join the class on Tuesdays? I mean be a live audience. We're willing to give up $10k, and ask no questions in the class.
Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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#54Just saw this. Hah!
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#5515,000, 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 it mean competition for 100 10k was between 4000 and now 15000?
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#56A bold and compassionate solution, that only YC would have the guts and integrity to do. Well done.
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#57Since everyone is in now, are the spots that we signed up for in the live in person classes still available to all?
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#58I 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 :-)
This would be a seriously missed opportunity for YC if they dont: 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.
Yep. We do a little bit of that already with our normal batch applicants, but with the wide net of Startup School there may be more more data available that would be interesting to correlate with long-term success. I think it would be so valuable to have a rigorous study of the factors that correlate with startup success – letting founders know what they should optimize for is an important part of the value we want to provide!
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#59Good on yc. Now I’m disappointed that I’m just auditing the course this term as I bet the forums will be a very interesting place with this many teams.
Best of luck to all.
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#60sweet, looking forward to those discount codes
Those deals aren't offered by YC directly but from talking to sandslash I think we're going to try to get the companies to agree to that.