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If you are not a White or Asian male, don't even bother. Someone needs to start a fund for African Americans.
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Absolutely, and you've got to remember that the gatekeepers use heuristics meant to target the greatest chance at being the rightest, not ensuring that they don't miss a few obvious ones. Such it is with YC - their heuristics are designed to ensure that they catch the potential unicorns (among other things) and aren't concerned with missing a few that would seem obvious in retrospect. And btw they seem to do well - a…
Anywhere to know those "heuristics"?
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Congrats. What's your start up about?
We're an investment marketplace for agriculture and agtech. On the face of it, this sounds totally dull in the world of SnapChat and Secret. Our job is to make sure that your grandchildren have food to eat by 2050 when we we need to feed 10 billion people. I started the company because I was working for a company in west africa before this. We failed to marshal enough capital to grow our business beyond the pilot sta…
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I once tried to become a paramedic. I was working in a sort-of outpatient clinic at the time, talked a couple of times with an paramedic instructor, along with some regular officers. I never got in - the HR recruiters didn't like me for some reason. This made no sense to the instructor, who thought I was a prime candidate, nor to my medical colleagues, and I also later successfully coached two friends through the pro…
I got a reply from a financial engineering consultancy HR person on Friday to say that they would not be able to process my application until I had submitted my high school results. From 1997. I have several applications on the go right now, so I do not have time to go historical for them. They miss a candidate.
First application, got rejected. Honestly happy it happened now instead of after the interview. It gives me more time to think about what's next. My startup is movie industry related, so maybe Los Angeles would be a better place to be. I'll post the startup site here when we launch.
I never got into Y Combinator (I think I applied 4 times but I'm not sure) but I'm now the CEO of a rapidly growing, well funded startup that actually SERVES an increasing number of YC companies. The way I always thought about YC was that it is ALWAYS worth applying because the exercise is good and the upside is high (and the downside minimal) but getting into YC should never be "part of your plan" - there are too ma…
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Let me know when this is fixed and I'll delete this comment.
I never got into Y Combinator (I think I applied 4 times but I'm not sure) but I'm now the CEO of a rapidly growing, well funded startup that actually SERVES an increasing number of YC companies. The way I always thought about YC was that it is ALWAYS worth applying because the exercise is good and the upside is high (and the downside minimal) but getting into YC should never be "part of your plan" - there are too ma…
I wanted to see what your company did so I checked your profile. I'm getting an error on your website: Error 521 Ray ID: 180f9c9b35c10ec7 Let me know when this is fixed and I'll delete this comment.
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I wanted to see what your company did so I checked your profile. I'm getting an error on your website: Error 521 Ray ID: 180f9c9b35c10ec7 Let me know when this is fixed and I'll delete this comment.
Thanks for letting me know that is super weird - I don't see that error and I don't recognize it. Are you browsing in some non-standard way I need to account for (weird browser or something?)
During the application process I started to realize, YC asks all the right questions. Just trying to find proper answers is a huge step forward for the first timers, like us. We learned a lot.
I think, the only thing that missing is the feedback loop. I'm aware of the fact that there are more applicants than YC could accept, or provide a feedback. But after all, we still need a feedback.
After I saw the rejection email, first I planned to share our application in HN to get feedback from the community. But now I see this is a need for all the rejected applicants. I'm not sure what could be a better way for closing the feedback loop. Maybe, there's a start-up idea in here somewhere :)