We Make Mistakes
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We Make Mistakes
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#2"In this cycle we saw a +40% increase in the number of companies applying over the Summer 2014 batch."
Yikes! That's a major increase in applications. Has that number always grown that fast?
I wonder what the saturation point will be...
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#3"We Make Mistakes" is such a pretentious title because you think people hold ycombinator in such high esteem that you need to say that
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#4"We Make Mistakes" is such a pretentious title because you think people hold ycombinator in such high esteem that you need to say that
They're trying to be kind to the people they just refused, I'm not sure why that's pretentious. If you applied, presumably you wanted to get in and reminding them that it's not necessarily them or their company which is wrong is a kind thing to do.
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#5"In this cycle we saw a +40% increase in the number of companies applying over the Summer 2014 batch." Yikes! That's a major increase in applications. Has that number always grown that fast? I wonder what the saturation point will be...
I think 40% is atypically high. However, people have been wondering what the saturation point might be (with no sign of slowing down) for years ;)
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#6"We Make Mistakes" is such a pretentious title because you think people hold ycombinator in such high esteem that you need to say that
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#7Damn, I was thinking about trying for a "late" application, but apply.ycombinator.com seems to be down.
Does anyone know if they still allow this, in principle? Or are batches now so saturated (with good ideas) that they dropped the option?
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#8A relevant question I asked PG a year ago:
[Do you review rejected YC apps to find startups who then made it big?] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7122774
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#9Damn, I was thinking about trying for a "late" application, but apply.ycombinator.com seems to be down. Does anyone know if they still allow this, in principle? Or are batches now so saturated (with good ideas) that they dropped the option?
We do still allow late apps. We're working on the problem and hope to have it back up soon. Sorry guys!
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#10Damn, I was thinking about trying for a "late" application, but apply.ycombinator.com seems to be down. Does anyone know if they still allow this, in principle? Or are batches now so saturated (with good ideas) that they dropped the option?
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