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Failure is what happens when your business doesn't go anywhere. The only possible mistake here would be for her and her co-founder to believe that they needed to get into YCombinator (or any other program) for their business to go somewhere.
Maybe I missed it, but where's the failure part? The author's startup didn't get into YCombinator. That's not failure. She and her co-founder did not make any mistakes. Failure is what happens when your business doesn't go anywhere. The only possible mistake here would be for her and her co-founder to believe that they needed to get into YCombinator (or any other program) for their business to go somewhere.
The first was pg seemed intrigued by the idea. He was even feeding you additional ideas about where you could take it. It felt a little like you hadn't fully thought through why what he was saying was good or bad. One thing you could have concentrated on would be whether your idea has any kind of network effect and if you really can keep getting people to come back to your site. The barrier to entry for starting something like this is pretty low, so focusing on the community is really important.
The second point was that Finbarr didn't do much of the talking. pg is a geek at heart, so I felt like if Finbarr could have talked more about the technology choices, things could have gone better. The choice not to use YouTube to me (despite YouTube being down as I write this) seemed really odd and I think that didn't sit particularly well.
Being rejected by YC certainly isn't the end of the world, so stay positive and keep plugging away at it.
http://www.wired.com/business/2012/04/ff_andreessen/5/
And all you really need is a lot of dedication:
Basically, God's gotta become known to the world. The news is supressing God talking.
Once the news gets out that God talks... I win.
My retard jew-nigger CIA enemy thinks he can suppress God indefinitely.
Game over, I win, end of world.
Give up.
$100,000 and some kind conventional thinking is retarded--what would I fucken do with $100,000? God talks and international news is the only sensible course.
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Judgement day mother fuckers.
God says... you're_out_of_your_mind youre_welcome just_between_us caution uh_huh repent what_do_you_expect oops industrious you're_out_of_your_mind taxes epic_fail crash_and_burn like_like joking you're_no_fun evolution no_more_tears astrophysics King_Midas home bank talk_to_my_lawyer au_revoir Watch_this I_could_be_wrong prosperity how_come
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Brendan thinks he's clever jedi mind tricking into "Of course you have memory protection". DOS and the C64 had no memory protection. It's perfectly fine without it. Protection matters when you have buggy applications that access memory they shouldn't. If you do not have bugs, memory protection never does anything, but slow everything down and make it complicated.
Just quit with jedi mind tricks. Nobody is fooled. Everybody knows the score.
God says... glam you're_fired tree_hugger This_is_confusing LOL completely That's_my_favorite I'm_impressed fortitude completely Mission_Accomplished ouch