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#12Btw, I haven't gotten a rejection email. I just know they sent out to they guys they accepted. I guess our application really sucked lol.
I think they're sent out in chunks. I sometimes get mine several hours later than what others report.
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#13If you got rejected, mind sharing what you're working on? Reply below!
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#14Maybe third time is the charm... and a successful kickstarter
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#15Getting into YC is not the goal of a startup. The goal is to make something people want. YC certainly helps you achieve that goal, but it is by no means the only way!
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#16If you got rejected, mind sharing what you're working on? Reply below!
A website to compare and buy annuities. Don't have it up yet, any suggestions appreciated.
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#17Back to work :)
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#18If you got rejected, mind sharing what you're working on? Reply below!
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#19Won't give up. Feels like losing 10m.
Glad to hear that. Yea, it's a bit of a gut shot - some pain, then anger, then acceptance, and then, as someone else said, back to work; The 7 minute YC rejection workout.
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#20Rejected. Sucks. The idea was very solid and the team was solid (between the 3 of us we have 2 artists, 2 computer science degrees, 2 computer engineering degrees, and an established viral content marketer). The only two issues were that
a) We are planning to build a hardware product and are at the mock-ups/renderings stage so we do not have a prototype, and b) One of the team members hasn't physically met the other two (although we've worked on projects before and have a ~4 year friendship).
I had some correspondence with some of the partners about the second point-- PG told me it would be a problem, but Garry Tan said its not really a deal breaker. So I'll put it off to the lack of prototype which is what killed us.