YC W15 emails are out • Hacker News Board

Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by cryptoz » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 12:45 AM UTC

dmvaldman wrote: post #13

If you got rejected, mind sharing what you're working on? Reply below!

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Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by abraren » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 12:47 AM UTC

dmvaldman wrote: post #13

If you got rejected, mind sharing what you're working on? Reply below!

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Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by abraren » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 12:49 AM UTC

Any nonprofit applicants out there? We'd love to hear about you!

Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by kamikazi » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 12:51 AM UTC

henreman wrote: post #30

Our team got rejected. http://doshh.com We were creating a mobile payment system to be used in Myanmar.

Sounds interesting. Few more details? - email in my profile. And all the best. We got rejected too.

Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by DwayneSamuels » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 12:53 AM UTC

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #29

DwayneSamuels wrote: post #3

Won't give up. Feels like losing 10m.

Most people accepted into YC end up with nowhere near $10M. Not even $1M.

The network of people there matters. If they were investing 10k in my company I'd comply. Your network is your net worth.

Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by kgc » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 12:54 AM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #39

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Why do you say you've been blackballed?

Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by kgc » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 12:54 AM UTC

yosho wrote: post #25

My team and I got rejected in 2010. We're still working together and we're generating mid 8 figure revenues now. So it's definitely not the end of the world and the silicon valley network is so vast these days that no one should let a YC rejection stop them from doing amazing things. Keep on truckin!

Cool - what's your company?

Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by yousifa » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 12:55 AM UTC

yuprejected wrote: post #22

Can you share how many applications there were for this batch? Might make some of us feel like all these years grinding on startups isn't for nothing and is just a simple matter of volume.

They had said they were expecting close to 5k

Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by niravprajapati » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 12:55 AM UTC

dmvaldman wrote: post #13

If you got rejected, mind sharing what you're working on? Reply below!

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Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by mck- » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 12:55 AM UTC

Here's a curious data point: we were invited for an interview last time, but we didn't get in. We had no paying customers yet. The feedback was that we should get 10 customers and apply again. So we did. But no interview this time :/