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Re: Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out

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Post by rdl »

Hitchhiker wrote: post #37

Well what is really weird is that yC's top hits as per an annotation on Harj's recent mock letter on Rapgenius got looked over: " We missed Dropbox, Heroku and Airbnb. " [1] If the 3 supposed hits that presently created most of yC's entire known value got passed over by the VCs at first go.. one has to be a bit skeptical about the whole idol contest. [1] - http://rapgenius.com/Harj-taggar-well-be-circling-back-lyric.…

That was a joke; he was writing as if he were an outside VC who wanted to get in on YC's next Dropbox, having missed the first one. (Coincidentally PG has said he didn't "get" AirBnB initially, but I don't think they got rejected; I'm not sure if the first Drew application which was rejected was for Dropbox or something else. I've never seen anything public about Heroku's application to YC)

Re: Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out

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Post by ciupicri »

clicks wrote: post #5

I just want to say that e-mail looks very well-written and comforting for a rejection e-mail. I wish companies sent similar rejection e-mails to job applicants. Keep your spirits up, rejectees, this is not the end of the world. Continue doing your thing. :)

I for one wish companies would give more details to job applicants. I've heard that some companies don't give you any details for fear of (discrimination?!) lawsuits or, as a recruiter once told me, simply paranoia. If someone knows other reasons for this besides not keeping records of the interviews, I'd like to know more.

What's even stranger/funnier is that some companies reject you without giving any specific reasons, yet they invite you to reapply for another position or the same later.

Re: Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out

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Post by roryreiff »

ericabiz wrote: post #36
roryreiff wrote: post #6

We received our second YC rejection for Splash ( http://splash.io ). Back to work indeed!

FYI, your website is completely broken on my Nexus 7 tablet. It appears to be some sort of fixed-width design that goes off the left side of my screen.

Darn, thanks for the heads up! :)

Re: Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out

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Post by Hitchhiker »

rdl wrote: post #41
Hitchhiker wrote: post #37

Well what is really weird is that yC's top hits as per an annotation on Harj's recent mock letter on Rapgenius got looked over: " We missed Dropbox, Heroku and Airbnb. " [1] If the 3 supposed hits that presently created most of yC's entire known value got passed over by the VCs at first go.. one has to be a bit skeptical about the whole idol contest. [1] - http://rapgenius.com/Harj-taggar-well-be-circling-back-lyric.…

That was a joke; he was writing as if he were an outside VC who wanted to get in on YC's next Dropbox, having missed the first one. (Coincidentally PG has said he didn't "get" AirBnB initially, but I don't think they got rejected; I'm not sure if the first Drew application which was rejected was for Dropbox or something else. I've never seen anything public about Heroku's application to YC)

" Star systems in a society come about because of a paucity of influential sorting processes. " - Lanier, Jaron (2013-03-07). Who Owns The Future? (Kindle Location 598). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.

-- my thoughts --

I am sure it was.. but the main point is.. people attribute more rationality and objectivity to a process that frankly even by pg's own comments ( check out his essay on " two kinds of judgment ) is not so.

Investors ( even incubators ) should be a secondary thought to an entrepreneur's path.. I'd go so far as to point that its best to have a defensive approach and look for paths do not require them ( even pg has hinted many times via his essays.. including the cockroach bit ).

What happens when the first example arrives that clearly just bypassed the whole lot of the present ecosystem till a very late stage and hits the range of a Google or Microsoft ?

Re: Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out

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Post by bradleybuda »

I'll throw my "rejected from YC" story into the ring: my co-founders and I applied to the S12 batch. We were fortunate to get as far as the interview phase, only to receive a very kind rejecting email from Garry Tan that evening. His basic criticism was: "you guys aren't serious about this idea" (we hadn't yet quit our day jobs).

So we quit. We spent the summer building Meldium, reapplied for W13, and were accepted - and it was an amazing boost to our company. As a founder, you're going to get rejected a lot - use it as an opportunity to learn and grow.

Re: Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out

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Post by suhail »

Stay hungry, stay alive, and be relentlessly resourceful (as PG says). You'll figure it out.

A long standing tradition: If you got rejected, please forward your rejection email to free@mixpanel.com and we'll hook you up with a free Mixpanel plan to help out while you're figuring it out.

- Suhail

Re: Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out

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Post by jeffling »

bobsil1 wrote: post #49

Some data points: we had 5 video views. Rejected. Probably too old for YC. But we're doing well, so no biggie. We applied with Arro, http://arroapp.com - tells you which product to get by analyzing millions of ratings online.

I want this. please release for web or android
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