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YC rejection emails are out!
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#22Also, be grateful you weren't this guy. http://distilled.wordpress.com/2006/02/23/ycombinator/ I think they got an interview for the round after, not sure if they got in from there.
This is terrible. I had no idea this had happened till now. I am so sorry. If I had known we'd accidentally sent these people an invitation to interview, we would have just gone ahead and interviewed them. As far as I am concerned, this is the worst mistake YC has ever made, and we will try never to let this happen again.
None of my business, Paul, but you might want to contact the guy and apologize. That had to suck big time.
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#23Thanks to all of the Y Combinator Staff for taking the time to read our application. I wish those who made it through best of luck with the interviews. To everyone who didn't, I'm going to keep going, I hope you will also!
Ditto the thanks to the YC Staff for going through the slush pile. Best of luck to those who got invited to Boston. We didn't make the cut, so we're incorporating within the week, cementing our partnership with a 3rd team member (Columbia biz school prof), and immediately seeking funds from more conventional (although more dilutive) sources. We are also looking for one more hacker to join us. We can pay $5k for sure…
We're in a similar position. Could you mention sites you found useful for info on incorporation?
Thankyou
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is terrible. I had no idea this had happened till now. I am so sorry. If I had known we'd accidentally sent these people an invitation to interview, we would have just gone ahead and interviewed them. As far as I am concerned, this is the worst mistake YC has ever made, and we will try never to let this happen again.
None of my business, Paul, but you might want to contact the guy and apologize. That had to suck big time.
Oh, please. Shit happens.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
None of my business, Paul, but you might want to contact the guy and apologize. That had to suck big time.
Oh, please. Shit happens.
Sure does. And when it happens to your users, you'd better be able to do some scooping real quick. But like I said, not my call.
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#26What is important is that YCombinator has already built a community even by rejecting most of applicants.
Don't loose a chance to network, cooperate and succeed, we all are in a great team over here!
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Technically, it was a diss from a girl. ;) Nah, a diss is personal. There's nothing personal about this.
It's personal because everyone on our team put in personal time, meaning more time than we allotted for our normal procedures to apply. It sucks to be rejected. I needed to vent somehow.
Just treat YC like you would any other VC. I doubt you'd be broken up if one of them rejected you; you'd (ideally) have many more lined up anyway.
There are opportunities all over the place. Keep your hopes up.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is terrible. I had no idea this had happened till now. I am so sorry. If I had known we'd accidentally sent these people an invitation to interview, we would have just gone ahead and interviewed them. As far as I am concerned, this is the worst mistake YC has ever made, and we will try never to let this happen again.
None of my business, Paul, but you might want to contact the guy and apologize. That had to suck big time.
Good idea; I just did.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Technically, it was a diss from a girl. ;) Nah, a diss is personal. There's nothing personal about this.
It's personal because everyone on our team put in personal time, meaning more time than we allotted for our normal procedures to apply. It sucks to be rejected. I needed to vent somehow.
It does suck to be rejected. But there's sucks like "we spent a week with you analyzing your entire team and pulling apart opportunities and leverage you didn't know you had, but we're just going to have to pass because we don't think you'll make it" and then there's sucks like "we looked at fourteen hundred forms people filled out on our web page in the last two days and the matrices didn't line up for you guys.
Hopefully you could handle either of those scenarios, but if I had to take one, the YC one is a pretty easy rejection. Heck, we even got a nice e-mail.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ditto the thanks to the YC Staff for going through the slush pile. Best of luck to those who got invited to Boston. We didn't make the cut, so we're incorporating within the week, cementing our partnership with a 3rd team member (Columbia biz school prof), and immediately seeking funds from more conventional (although more dilutive) sources. We are also looking for one more hacker to join us. We can pay $5k for sure…
We're in a similar position. Could you mention sites you found useful for info on incorporation? Thankyou
We're going with an ex-Cooley Godward lawyer for our incorporation. It's more expensive but in the big scheme of things, we think it's better to get this done right and have someone experienced to handle equity arrangements and contracts.
There are other YC threads on incorporation. For general information, Wikipedia is pretty good :) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_(business)]