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Re: YC rejection emails are out!

#11
post #3

Thanks to all of the Y Combinator Staff for taking the time to read our application. I wish those who made it through best of luck with the interviews. To everyone who didn't, I'm going to keep going, I hope you will also!

At least we'll all qualify for a future version of Jessica Livingston's Hackers at Work book...being rejected at least once is a general theme of the interviews!

Re: YC rejection emails are out!

#14
post #3

Thanks to all of the Y Combinator Staff for taking the time to read our application. I wish those who made it through best of luck with the interviews. To everyone who didn't, I'm going to keep going, I hope you will also!

Ditto the thanks to the YC Staff for going through the slush pile. Best of luck to those who got invited to Boston.

We didn't make the cut, so we're incorporating within the week, cementing our partnership with a 3rd team member (Columbia biz school prof), and immediately seeking funds from more conventional (although more dilutive) sources. We are also looking for one more hacker to join us. We can pay $5k for sure (possibly more depending on alternative funding) + equity for Jan-Mar in Palo Alto area. We're building a collaborative investing system that's quite different than the ones out there, and we have team members with deep domain expertise.

Re: YC rejection emails are out!

#15
It's a hard email to swallow, but I'm going to continue my work. I was excited at the idea to be a part of Y-Combinator; it's tough to entertain the idea of pursuing your product with the support of peers and successful people. Then realize you're not going to have a chance to WOW Y-Combinator at the interviews in November, nor will you be there in January to love the three months. I know my idea is great and I can make it happen, call me if you want to join in - you have my number.

Re: YC rejection emails are out!

#17
We got that e-mail, but I promptly replied that they sent us the wrong one. Still waiting for the Boston invite. ;)

Will be interesting to see who got the invite and goes through to the 3 months. Does any one document this?

Congrats to all who made it!

R.

Re: YC rejection emails are out!

#19
post #4

I kind of take it like a diss from a girl. I just want to find a hotter girl with bigger, better assets and make sure that one girl that didn't give me a chance see's that she really lost out. Maybe even send her a nice sex tape.

Technically, it was a diss from a girl. ;) Nah, a diss is personal. There's nothing personal about this.

Also, nobody has said diss in about a decade. Or in hacker terms, nobody has said diss since people wrote web apps in Perl.

Re: YC rejection emails are out!

#20
post #12

Also, be grateful you weren't this guy. http://distilled.wordpress.com/2006/02/23/ycombinator/ I think they got an interview for the round after, not sure if they got in from there.

This is terrible. I had no idea this had happened till now. I am so sorry. If I had known we'd accidentally sent these people an invitation to interview, we would have just gone ahead and interviewed them.

As far as I am concerned, this is the worst mistake YC has ever made, and we will try never to let this happen again.

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