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Well, i did not apply anywhere else, and it seems i waited until the very last day. I'm glad I waited, though as 7 days ago my application would contain a totally different app. :)
Good luck everybody!
Are there going to be any grubwith.us dinners with YC founders this term? (the last one we went to was really great).
Being someone who submitted an application around 11:59pm in a previous season, I wonder what makes people wait until the last minute. In our case it was the big decision of whether we should apply or not (we didn't have a site, didn't really talk it through among ourselves), which pretty much made the resulting rejection a self satisfying prophecy.
we've been experimenting with a couple of stuff recently and came up with something different last week. :)
This is seriously impressive. Speaks to the value startups anticipate getting out of the YC experience.
Bubble? What bubble?
This is seriously impressive. Speaks to the value startups anticipate getting out of the YC experience.
Unfortunately, I think that some companies are in it for the funding as opposed to the experience itself. The real value of YC has little to do with any checks you get, but the knowledge you earn. I would take a YC spot over a $5 million VC check in an instant. $5 million buys a lot of Heroku dynos, but the YC-knowledge/experience is something that can make you potentially 50x anything you could get without YC.
Having said that, $5M or a YC experience would be a tough choice -- would depend on the nature of my idea. <=$2M or YC I'm going YC all the way.
Sure there will be a lot of hopelessly naive applications, can't be avoided really, but there could be some real ground breakers as well.
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Is that one new application per minute, or does it include updates to previous applications? Very impressive either way.
That's new submissions.
Surprised so many leave their applications that late given that the advice is to get in early.
Being someone who submitted an application around 11:59pm in a previous season, I wonder what makes people wait until the last minute. In our case it was the big decision of whether we should apply or not (we didn't have a site, didn't really talk it through among ourselves), which pretty much made the resulting rejection a self satisfying prophecy.