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How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup

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Re: How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup

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Post by micahb37 »

joh6nn wrote: post #41
NewMonarch wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I came to SF the first time by myself because I was the hustler in the group. I talked to my team members every day. They knew I was in SF talking to investors and they knew I was interviewing for YC. They just hadn't heard of it until I was already doing the interview. As to how I was able to continue, as I explain in the article, they spun off a t-shirt printing business that we had been running. It was a more pred…

what's your asking price for your first born?

It better not be very expensive. Jon is not a good looking man.

Re: How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup

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Post by NewMonarch »

shasta wrote: post #42
NewMonarch wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's hard to say. To be fair, YC never met the rest of my cofounders. I was the only one they'd ever spoken with. - Jon (The guy who wrote this story. :)

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The smiley face/close parenthesis move is completely valid. (Otherwise you get double lips. :))

Re: How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup

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Post by Johngibb »

shasta wrote: post #42
NewMonarch wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's hard to say. To be fair, YC never met the rest of my cofounders. I was the only one they'd ever spoken with. - Jon (The guy who wrote this story. :)

)

Kind of off topic, but today's XKCD is super relevant here: http://xkcd.com/859/

Re: How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup

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Post by run4yourlives »

NewMonarch wrote: post #48
run4yourlives wrote: post #38

The article makes it sound that PG and co allowed this guy to pick up and move to SF only to tell him to suck it the next day. If that is what happened, they deserve some scorn for playing with a person's life like that. That's just not on. If, however, they were clear about their reservations and just wanted to meet the guy again to discuss, it was really stupid of him to transport himself from his home to a hotel.…

It was more an issue of timing. The conversations started with my cofounders about 72 hours before the first YC dinner. I was already scheduled to move out of my apartment and had airfare booked. It wasn't until I was literally heading to the airport the night before the first dinner that I found out that things might be in trouble. I'd already spent the last couple days moving all of my stuff into a storage unit. I…

Makes sense now that you've clarified. I've done the "pick up and move" myself in the past, but I suppose they way I read it I assumed more time.

Once again good luck to you!

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