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Imagine the possibilities if we gathered all the troops (rejected troops that is) and brainstormed one sweet startup. Not realistic but how cool would that be?
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Of course not! I'm still going to do my thing! I'm just going to have to continue consulting to pay the bills. That's all I'm saying. The money would have let me work full-time on my startup.
Does your startup have a business model? Can you try to grow it while generating revenue at the same time?
Does anyone else feel as if the rejection letter did nothing but fuel the fire to get moving on their Idea? This might very well be a good thing.
Hard to see how it could be a good thing. The added desire te succeed, if any, will likely be short term.
I wonder if all the rejection e-mails had the same text. Mine started with "We're sorry" and ended with "Y Combinator Staff" and has the following MD5: f459a7d636ac85cdcd680b135bcfc521 Edit: easy multi-line md5 here: http://www.webhost.org/widgets/md5encrypter
Whatever happened to that guy who got rejected over and over and over but never changed anything about his website?
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Why is age such a bad thing :) I'm 20 and we also got rejected, but one of us happens to be in her 50s and doesn't consider this the worst thing in the world (or even, the worst thing to happen to our startup).
Excuse me, I'm still young and arrogant and want to be rich and famous before I'm 25. Perhaps that's not the best mindset to approach this from.
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A rejection doesn't mean there was anything wrong with your application / start-up / you personally at all. All it means is that there were other start-ups that caught their attention more. You have to remember that they look at this as a business process, and a huge part of that process is "can we make money off of this as well"; it's tough to ascertain that over a video. Keep on trucking, and I'm sure you'll do fin…
All valid points, but really has nothing to do with what I said ;) I was just hoping they could provide feedback, since I assume they make a conscientious decision about each application.
They don't provide reasons, because there probably isn't a specific reason, other than the application wasn't one that wanted to make them say yes.
It's not rejection guys. It's non-selection. Oh... wait... no here it is pretty much just rejection.
Does anyone else feel as if the rejection letter did nothing but fuel the fire to get moving on their Idea? This might very well be a good thing.