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Re: My Y Combinator interview.

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Post by StavrosK » Tue, Nov 23, 2010, 11:21 AM UTC

davidw wrote: post #50

It's not clear from the article, but I hope you had the chance to spend a bit of time in California, looking around, seeing some of the sites, and so on. It'd be a pity to go all that way and not have a look around! Also: it looks like you live in a part of the world that is particularly nice and beautiful in its own way. You ought to do something to encourage visiting hackers to stop by so as to have some people to…

I'm in LA now, and it's great! I'm glad I have friends here and can take a small break.

Greece is fantastic, it's just amazingly beautiful. Maybe we can organise sprints on the beach, that would be quite nice...

Re: My Y Combinator interview.

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Post by citizenkeys » Tue, Nov 23, 2010, 1:14 PM UTC

i'm trying to create a web page with links to information by people that made it to the interview round:

http://ycuniverse.com/interviewees.php

If you have links to posts/blogs/etc about the interview experience, please forward the links to me. thanks.

Re: My Y Combinator interview.

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Post by endlessvoid94 » Tue, Nov 23, 2010, 3:56 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #110

endlessvoid94 wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dude, fuck that. You're no different now than you were before you were rejected. The things that made you want to succeed are still there. Your skills are still there and your drive is still there.

Oh, sure, but it's as if someone told me "what you're doing now isn't going to work, so we don't want to work with you on it". It makes me think that maybe I need to be doing something else, but all the thousands of users who use and love the service count more than six people who talked to me about it for ten minutes.

Honestly I think you're giving YC too much credit. Sure, they're a great service, but jesus christ, they aren't the promised land.

Half of the YC startups will probably fail. You have users who love your service, so you're already WAY ahead of the game.

Re: My Y Combinator interview.

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Post by akkartik » Wed, Nov 24, 2010, 7:06 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #19

akkartik wrote: post #4

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No comment on this specific scenario. I don't know you, and what do I know anyway? But it's so hard to distinguish 'determination' from 'stubbornness' that I've decided those labels are useless. No matter which you are, people will call you stubborn until you succeed.

I know, I reflected that in my edit. I agree with the latter, I think history decides if your stubbornness was misplaced or not.

Max Levchin: "Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company." http://www.quora.com/Max-Levchin/What-are-your-greatest-less...

When he puts it like that, I'm not sure I'm an entrepreneur.