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I applied with the low character requirements; I assumed you were encouraging brevity for the sake of the reviewers. Should I reapply or will it not have a large impact on admission decisions?
Apparently, you can update your application before the deadline, Aug 13th.
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Thanks for the heads up, haven't really completed this website (you may see broken links too). Our prior site was https://projectpiglet.com - which was our POC. Related to introspection, we realized we had a better target market and are shifting. Thanks for the input.
Also a search such as 'asdf' or '-50a' seems to crash it, e.g. https://hnprofile.com/author_profiles?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=...
I wasn't ready for releasing it, and was breaking some stuff last night. Thanks for pointing it out :)
I'm working on building Early Warning Systems that use ML and space data for Public Health problems and can see a commercial application for governments and communities. But I just started work, and this is a longer problem than most SAAS offerings, do you think Startup School is worth it in this case?
Yep. We've tailored the content to fit all sorts of sales models. There'll also be plenty of other founders with similarly long sales cycles to chat to / learn from within the Startup School community.
In our case, our "start-up" is a desktop product sold as a subscription that is developed and marketed within an existing professional services company we operate, which is serving a niche domain that the desktop product targets. Developing the product was always a bit of a hobby but patiently over 5 years since it transitioned from freeware to commercial, annual subscription billings have grown to over $500K. We est…
Can you please provide some idea of selection criteria and if possible, selection percentage?
Hi, I'm Adora, a YC partner, and will be helping out with the course. Very excited to meet and work with everyone. Happy to answer any questions.
Can you explain if every startup is accepted or not? In the link it states "Last year, over 13,000 companies applied to participate in Startup School, and 95 YC alumni volunteered their time to advise over 2,800 of those companies participating across 141 countries." How many companies will be accepted this year? Or do all applications get accepted?
Thank you!