Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
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Re: Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
#2'We’re conducting in-person interviews for the Summer 2024 batch for current undergraduate or graduate students at universities in the northeastern US.'
Why are recent BA/BS, MS, and PhD graduates excluded?
Re: Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
#3'We’re conducting in-person interviews for the Summer 2024 batch for current undergraduate or graduate students at universities in the northeastern US.' Why are recent BA/BS, MS, and PhD graduates excluded?
Or those of us with no degrees and decades of experience?
I'm in Boston.
Re: Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
#4'We’re conducting in-person interviews for the Summer 2024 batch for current undergraduate or graduate students at universities in the northeastern US.' Why are recent BA/BS, MS, and PhD graduates excluded?
Why assume that they are excluded?
Re: Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
#5“We’ll be chartering buses to travel to and from schools around the Northeast. Sign up early if you’d like a seat on one of the buses.“
Will they be doing that “roll call” song too? https://www.tiktok.com/@theoffice/video/7254560650909928750?...
Re: Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
#6We only hire Americans from elite universities, but please come along and waste your time!
Re: Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
#7'We’re conducting in-person interviews for the Summer 2024 batch for current undergraduate or graduate students at universities in the northeastern US.' Why are recent BA/BS, MS, and PhD graduates excluded?
Looks like it's a special opportunity for students to interview early and not excluding non-students from interviewing through the normal process. Maybe they are concerned the interviews may be overrun with professional founders and they only have 1 day?
Re: Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
#8We only hire Americans from elite universities, but please come along and waste your time!
Definitely not true! How did you get that impression?
I wouldn't be here if it were—my cofounder Scott and I made it to YC from way outside elite circles, US or otherwise. It's really important not to go for these demoralizing assumptions, lest they become self-fulfilling prophesies.
Here's some better information: if you can build, can make something people want, and are willing to be coached in the way that YC coaches founders, you have as good a chance as anyone at getting funded by YC. (And certainly a far better chance at not being overlooked for prejudicial reasons such as 'not from elite university'.)
You may not be wrong in general—it's clear that class divides are increasingly organized around educational divides—but IMO this is less true of YC than society at large and it's a big part of YC's business for it to remain so.
Edit: while I'm at it, something I wish more people would know is that if you apply to YC and get rejected, you should keep applying. Most YC startups didn't get in on their first try. If you do apply more than once, the key thing is to demonstrate progress since your previous application.
So: don't give up, and definitely don't give up before you start!
Re: Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
#9We only hire Americans from elite universities, but please come along and waste your time!
Definitely not true! How did you get that impression? I wouldn't be here if it were—my cofounder Scott and I made it to YC from way outside elite circles, US or otherwise. It's really important not to go for these demoralizing assumptions, lest they become self-fulfilling prophesies. Here's some better information: if you can build, can make something people want, and are willing to be coached in the way that YC coac…
> but this is less true of YC than society at large, and it's a big part of YC's business for it to remain so.
Are there collected statistics that showcase this?
Re: Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely not true! How did you get that impression? I wouldn't be here if it were—my cofounder Scott and I made it to YC from way outside elite circles, US or otherwise. It's really important not to go for these demoralizing assumptions, lest they become self-fulfilling prophesies. Here's some better information: if you can build, can make something people want, and are willing to be coached in the way that YC coac…
> but this is less true of YC than society at large, and it's a big part of YC's business for it to remain so. Are there collected statistics that showcase this?
Good question. Probably? I imagine so. But I doubt the data is public. I'm just talking from my own observations in any case.
Edit: i inserted an IMO into my comment to make that clearer