Applications Open For Summer 2011 YC Funding Cycle

We added two new questions this year: Why did you pick this project to work on? and How will you get users? In retrospect it's surprising we didn't already ask these. (When reading applications we found we were trying to reconstruct answers to them from the answers people gave to other questions.)

We also stopped describing the video as optional. In practice it wasn't.

Re: Applications Open For Summer 2011 YC Funding Cycle

#5

Post by Swizec » Sun, Jan 16, 2011, 11:37 PM UTC

Wondering if we should apply even though we got rejected for the winter cycle ...

Re: Applications Open For Summer 2011 YC Funding Cycle

#6

Post by davidwparker » Sun, Jan 16, 2011, 11:39 PM UTC

Looking forward to applying for the first time. Any advice for a first timer?

Re: Applications Open For Summer 2011 YC Funding Cycle

#7

Post by pg » Sun, Jan 16, 2011, 11:39 PM UTC

davidwparker wrote: post #6

Looking forward to applying for the first time. Any advice for a first timer?

http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html

Re: Applications Open For Summer 2011 YC Funding Cycle

#8

Post by pg » Sun, Jan 16, 2011, 11:42 PM UTC

Swizec wrote: post #5

Wondering if we should apply even though we got rejected for the winter cycle ...

We often fund people on their second or third try. Dropbox was Drew Houston's second try. I believe PagerDuty holds the record; that company was their fourth.

Re: Applications Open For Summer 2011 YC Funding Cycle

#9

Post by nhangen » Sun, Jan 16, 2011, 11:49 PM UTC

Excellent, I can't wait.

Re: Applications Open For Summer 2011 YC Funding Cycle

#10

Post by teej » Sun, Jan 16, 2011, 11:53 PM UTC

pg wrote: post #8

Swizec wrote: post #5

Wondering if we should apply even though we got rejected for the winter cycle ...

We often fund people on their second or third try. Dropbox was Drew Houston's second try. I believe PagerDuty holds the record; that company was their fourth.

For PagerDuty, what changed between their first and fourth try?