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Re: Tell HN: YC Summer 2015 rejections (and presumably invitations) have been sent

#51

Hey for those who got an email did they send it to each co-founder's email address or just the one listed on your account?

Only to the applicant not each co-founder.

Did you mean the email of the person who applied or the email listed on the application?

Re: Tell HN: YC Summer 2015 rejections (and presumably invitations) have been sent

#52
Got rejected 3rd time for http://www.innGrid.net despite the real revenue & growth. Perhaps it's beacuse I'm a sole founder. Anyways, I am going to continue this journey with YC on board or not. Here's the vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6OGHW9rrLY

Re: Tell HN: YC Summer 2015 rejections (and presumably invitations) have been sent

#53
We applied with http://ymoment.com for the first time this year. Unfortunately we got rejected but this doesn't mean the end for us we already have a decided what to do next.And btw what we are trying to do is to make a change in video consumption experience by letting users make micro videos out of youtube videos.

Re: Tell HN: YC Summer 2015 rejections (and presumably invitations) have been sent

#54
Second rejection here: solo founder from weird country in the middle of Europe, HW startup in agtech (actually just small niche of wine analysis) is probably not great fit for YC. It is great thing to just fill the application to summarise what I learned about the business in past six months.

Re: Tell HN: YC Summer 2015 rejections (and presumably invitations) have been sent

#56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing here so far. Wonder if YC forgetting/glitching about me is worse than a rejection email or not?

I didn't get an email but my co-founder who submitted the application did.

I think only the application (not all the listed co-founders) gets the mail. :)

Re: Tell HN: YC Summer 2015 rejections (and presumably invitations) have been sent

#58
post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm fairly certain they all get sent together. It would give late applications an advantage if they spent more time reviewing them.

Emailed YC and asked if late applications will be read and given responses. This is what they said: Yes. We can't give out a precise date of when we will be getting back to everyone about late applications, but we'll respond to everyone before the cycle starts.

Thanks for sharing! Really helpful to know.

Re: Tell HN: YC Summer 2015 rejections (and presumably invitations) have been sent

#59
Your rejections are proof positive to me that Y!Combinator has to many good startups applying for their program.

Cheer up, and celebrate your hard work. God has a special plan for you. In the morning its back to work:)

You may not be partnering with Y!Combinator, but you are walking away with a 7% stake in your company that gives you 100% control over your own destiny, and potentially millions, or even billions of dollars in wealth you would of given away had you been selected. Who am I kidding, we all wanted the support of Y!Combinator.

The good people of Y!Combinator are some of the of the best in Silicon Valley. I personally would love to have a board that could show my team the ropes. Lets face it. Hackers are pros at learning the ropes through trial and error. Persistence will get us through.

I fantasized about a little more rest than my current environment of working a full time job that pays the bills, and another full time job developing new technology that doesn't yet pay any bills. Having to focus on multiple things at once, instead of focusing on one with pinpoint accuracy is painful. You do what you gotta do, and you will get there.

Our company has built a foundation for Strong AI, and an autonomous robotic framework that connects Robotics to third party AI. Google has spent over a billion dollars the last couple years buying companies in these two areas, and we are going to beat them connecting AI to Robotics by months, and we have been developing our technology for 3 years. AI, and Robotics were Y!Combinator's top 2 desired business categories, and we didn't even get an interview.

In summary don't stop, but do look for alternative options to getting to your next milestone in regards to funding. Most of the sites I've looked at in rejected Y!Combinator posts, I would of been interested in if I were an investor. I think each of you is onto something (Except the dude who submitted a swinger ad. He did get a good chuckle out of me though:).

Re: Tell HN: YC Summer 2015 rejections (and presumably invitations) have been sent

#60
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I got the rejection email for PressureNet. http://pressurenet.io 5th attempt. No problem, we'll keep going.

Awesome platform! I'm impressed:) I didn't see how you get sensor information from phones. I worked on a messaging system for an aviation weather observation system for a North American government agency that was written in Java, and the sensors we used were not the kind you find in phones.

Have you looked for investment anywhere else?

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