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Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding

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Re: Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding

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Post by vadimoss »

tylermenezes wrote: post #63
kaolinite wrote: post #23

PG: What would your advice be to someone with no co-founder? Apply anyway and see what you think, or don't even bother and wait until you've found someone to work with? I appreciate the issues with single founder companies however am finding it hard to locate someone with the required interest and skill in my area.

Even if you manage to get in without a co-founder, you'll probably still want a co-founder. I've talked to several YC alums without a co-founder looking to hire an employee who can serve as a co-founder.

Getting a startup off the ground is not a one man job. Sooner you get another pair of hands and a brain to help you out with this task the better. Why wait until accepted or not accepted? It's irrelevant, you just need at least one more person besides yourself

Re: Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding

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Post by vadimoss »

tylermenezes wrote: post #63
kaolinite wrote: post #23

PG: What would your advice be to someone with no co-founder? Apply anyway and see what you think, or don't even bother and wait until you've found someone to work with? I appreciate the issues with single founder companies however am finding it hard to locate someone with the required interest and skill in my area.

Even if you manage to get in without a co-founder, you'll probably still want a co-founder. I've talked to several YC alums without a co-founder looking to hire an employee who can serve as a co-founder.

Getting a startup off the ground is not a one man job. Sooner you get another pair of hands and a brain to help you out with this task the better. Why wait until accepted or not accepted? It's irrelevant, you just need at least one more person besides yourself

Re: Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding

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Post by anatoli »

c0mpute wrote: post #25
dude_abides wrote: post #13

Can a non-citizen currently on H1B visa apply?

A very valid question.How about those on H4? As some might know the H1 for this year has been used up (unlike in the past 4-5 years), will YC still be ok accepting ideas/startups that cannot be on h1? Some clarity on this front will be very helpful for immigrants :)

Unless I'm mistaken, H1B is not the visa that YC founders would use anyway. Even if you have an H1B visa, you would still have to re-apply for the appropriate visa.

Re: Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding

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Post by Mangol »

Few months ago, I've seen a post which gave list of Questions every start up entrepreneur must answer. It was a list of around or more than 30 questions. I've been searching for it for past one week. If any one know, what I'm looking for, kindly post it.

Re: Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding

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Post by jmspring »

limedaring wrote: post #79
bravura wrote: post #73

Are you looking for a co-founder? I've created this Google survey so that you can put in a little information about yourself, and what you're looking for: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDAtOWh... When you fill it out, you can see the other responses. Perhaps you won't find a co-founder, but at least you might meet other people to talk to. [edit: This is my first survey on google docs, so if I n…

I wanted to jump in here and to caution that finding a cofounder with the specific intent of applying for this round of YC would be a bad idea. Keep in mind that a co-founding relationship is very much a relationship, and you have to "date" a bit before you get married — having a startup is like having a child, you want to know a potential cofounder is the right person to found a startup with first. That said, be ins…

I don't see it as a wholly bad idea -- sometimes things do click. I think it certainly depends on the people involved.

I've thought about applying as a solo-founder (knowing the caveats), but may just continue to use my spare time to flesh things out and target Spring 2013. Assuming a wet winter, that is a good time for getting some serious coding done -- less distraction to want to be outside.

Re: Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding

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Post by majorapps »

pplante wrote: post #32
rdl wrote: post #3

Very sneaky doing this during the Apple iPhone 5 launch event. I wonder how many ideas just got doomed and founders now have to do something new.

i doubt any startups were planning to launch the iPhone 5. in your eyes, what exactly have they announced that would cause someone to pivot?

Unfortunately Apple have adopted a philosophy of rejecting any app that loosely competes with iOS native apps - we for example had an app rejected for allowing users to share apps on Facebook/Twitter... the reason given was apparently it didn't provide any additional functionality over the native app (even though it did!)

Re: Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding

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Post by kaolinite »

jlees wrote: post #118
kaolinite wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm from Liverpool, UK. I turned down a place at university to become a programmer as I was sick of formal education, preferring instead to teach myself. It's a choice I regret in some ways but the past few years since leaving college have been fun, working as a programmer.

There's a growing startup scene in the UK. You may have to travel as far as Edinburgh or London, but go to enough events and you should run into plenty of people with the same kinds of passions. Add to that looking in places where people share your subject passion, and I'm sure you'll find someone. It's all about hustling.

There certainly is and I have become move involved with it, especially in recent months. Still finding it tricky to locate someone however and most people I have met have been quite considerably older than me. You're right though - it may be time to start looking outside of my local area, however it would be nice to find someone who I could meet regularly to hack at ideas with.
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