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Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding

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Re: Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding

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pg wrote: post #99
elq wrote: post #98

I've recently come across an interesting situation and would like to know how it would effect my company's chance at being accepted by YC. An investor I knew in a prior experience has expressed an interest in investing in my new endeavor. The application FAQ lists an understandable preference to avoid funding a company that has already incorporated. The amount the investor suggested is sizable (enough to sustain oper…

I don't know exactly what your situation is, but if he is not someone you owe something to, the optimal solution would be to apply to YC first. If you're accepted, you can invite this would-be investor to Demo Day, where he can compete with all the other investors to fund you; if not, he's plan B. Note that this assumes that you're not indebted to the guy in any way-- that he is simply a source of money. BTW, 3 years…

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Re: Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding

#103

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naivehs wrote: post #102

want to report a minor bug in the application form when typing the symbol ' (as in pg's) and then pressing update, a bunch of letter looking like "ÂÂ" appear in front of the symbol ' in the updated version.

It's not just the application form. If you type utf-8 encoded chars into any form, you get crap out. We're actually trying to debug this right now. For the time being use plain ascii.

(That thing that looked like ' wasn't. It was probably something you copied and pasted, e.g. from MS Word.)

Re: Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding

#104

Post by naivehs »

pg wrote: post #103
naivehs wrote: post #102

want to report a minor bug in the application form when typing the symbol ' (as in pg's) and then pressing update, a bunch of letter looking like "ÂÂ" appear in front of the symbol ' in the updated version.

It's not just the application form. If you type utf-8 encoded chars into any form, you get crap out. We're actually trying to debug this right now. For the time being use plain ascii. (That thing that looked like ' wasn't. It was probably something you copied and pasted, e.g. from MS Word.)

Thanks for the explanation, I will retype them and update.

Re: Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding

#105

Post by epi0Bauqu »

pg wrote: post #103
naivehs wrote: post #102

want to report a minor bug in the application form when typing the symbol ' (as in pg's) and then pressing update, a bunch of letter looking like "ÂÂ" appear in front of the symbol ' in the updated version.

It's not just the application form. If you type utf-8 encoded chars into any form, you get crap out. We're actually trying to debug this right now. For the time being use plain ascii. (That thing that looked like ' wasn't. It was probably something you copied and pasted, e.g. from MS Word.)

Here's a solution that covers a bunch of charset bases if you want to move to UTF-8:

1) Add accept_charset="UTF-8" to your form tag.

2) Add the hidden variable _charset_ with no value.

3) Add right after the head tag in the html.

4) Make sure apache is serving the file in UTF-8 by default, which is usually by accomplished by adding AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 to the relevant virtual host configuration.

Some of this stuff is redundant, but doing the above will usually ensure the page and form view and submit in UTF-8. To be extra sure, you can double check the value of the _charset_ variable that gets passed.

If you are using postgres and/or perl, I can give more details on what to do there as well.

Re: Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding

#106

Post by pg »

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #105
pg wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not just the application form. If you type utf-8 encoded chars into any form, you get crap out. We're actually trying to debug this right now. For the time being use plain ascii. (That thing that looked like ' wasn't. It was probably something you copied and pasted, e.g. from MS Word.)

Here's a solution that covers a bunch of charset bases if you want to move to UTF-8: 1) Add accept_charset="UTF-8" to your form tag. 2) Add the hidden variable _charset_ with no value. 3) Add right after the head tag in the html. 4) Make sure apache is serving the file in UTF-8 by default, which is usually by accomplished by adding AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 to the relevant virtual host configuration. Some of this stuff…

I'm not using Apache. I wrote the http server in Arc. Actually I think I know where the bug is: in my urldecode fn. Fix coming soon I hope. But not today: I have to cook dinner for the startups.
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