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Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
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Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
#22anyone know if they just mail the main applicant or do they send a mail to each of the group members? my email is a tad unreliable and i hadn't heard back about my app.
Only the main applicant will be contacted. I'm waiting on mine too! Is anyone else that applied still waiting for a response?
Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
#23I didn't get any response from YC as off yet :(
Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
#24anyone know if they just mail the main applicant or do they send a mail to each of the group members? my email is a tad unreliable and i hadn't heard back about my app.
In my application they sent an e-mail to both founders who were attached with HN accounts.
Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
#25anyone know if they just mail the main applicant or do they send a mail to each of the group members? my email is a tad unreliable and i hadn't heard back about my app.
In my application they sent an e-mail to both founders who were attached with HN accounts.
Interesting - thought i saw pg say only the main applicant would be contacted.
Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
#26What's the rejection email look like? Just a one liner or an explanation about how "it's not you, its me"? :-)
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We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding. Please don't take it personally. Despite the stock market crash we got a record number of applications this time, and the average quality was high. And since there's a limit on the number of interviews we can do, we had to turn away a lot of genuinely promising groups.
Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know we make lots of mistakes. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing. We're trying to get better at this, but it's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.
Y Combinator Staff
Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
#27REJECTED! KILLS SELF Naw it's coo-. I was kind of hoping I would get rejected since I've had second thoughts about someone owning 5% of my idea since I applied a few months back. Hope the lucky winners blow apart the interwebz 2.5 with some crazy new productive ideas.
If your application read anything like this comment I think I know why you got rejected.
If you read anything like your application I think I know why you're rejected by life.
Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
#28Recently, I've been amused that gmail has been marking my Google Alert emails as spam. Screenshot: http://tinyurl.com/5v7c6w
Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my application they sent an e-mail to both founders who were attached with HN accounts.
Interesting - thought i saw pg say only the main applicant would be contacted.
The plan changed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348328
Presumably they decided to use the email addresses entered into the YC application itself, rather than waiting for all main applicants to complete their HN profiles (which would surely have meant delaying the mailout).
Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
#30anyone know if they just mail the main applicant or do they send a mail to each of the group members? my email is a tad unreliable and i hadn't heard back about my app.
Only the main applicant will be contacted. I'm waiting on mine too! Is anyone else that applied still waiting for a response?
Yes, also waiting for a response. My best wishes to those who didn't make the cut, you know you'll succeed anyway!.