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Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by ondiekijunior »

Rollercoaster of emotions. First email came in while I was at dinner with my super nosy girlfriend and I was dejected. Didn't even take my meal well.

Then acceptance email. Good thing I had a long list of things to achieve before I went public with rwjwction/acceptance. I am happy to be accepted. For all those rejected, I have applied to YC 6 times since 2012 or 2013 I think. All rejects. One business was adapted by government (it wasn't going to be super profitable, but was really key to my government ops plus led to a scholarship at MIT). Two startups floundered but led me to my current startup(pivot after pivot supported by a somewhat sufficient consultancy).

All in all continue executing. That's what important.

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Post by wkoszek »

beautybasics wrote: post #178
snowmaker wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The audit track has the course materials - all the lectures and other notes. If you follow along, you can keep on the same timeline and learn about startups.

Are we(in audit) eligible for 10k grant?

Also trying to understand this, because it's unclear how "audit path" differs from: "not applied, will just watch stuff on YouTube"

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Post by meerab »

samstave wrote: post #179
pedalpete wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I got the same, I'm going to let things settle down over the next few hours and keep coding, I'm wondering if there is another rejection on its way. :)

I see this in a monty python-esque tone: "we are happy to inform you that we are very sorry to inform you of our previous information that you were accepted to starupschool, when that was sadly, an error on the part of our rejection system falsely telling you that you were accepted, so I am here to tell you that sadly, you were not accepted by our rejection system and your rejection has summarily been rejected by our…

This is awesome!

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Post by Techasura »

snowmaker wrote: post #189
Techasura wrote: post #169

I'm still confused. I got rejected and then accepted. I'm sure it's a fuck up but I urge YC to send a mail again to shed some clarity to those are seriously affected by this.

The second email is the correct one.

Thanks snowmaker. But if If my company is selected, I should see some related content right? I'm still seeing the message we will let you know by 20th August.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by andreygrehov »

patwalls wrote: post #170

I was just accepted, and then rejected. Felt like shit. You don't need a "startup school" or a YC acceptance to be successful. This application allowed me to type like 45 words about my company, and that was it. I imagine they had thousands of applicants. Once a week with an advisor that's working with 25 other companies? Startup School definitely won't be the thing that moves the needle for your project. Pessimistic…

Sorry about that. I had a different experience. First rejected and then accepted. Seems like one of the boolean flags was messed up.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by proofread »

proofread wrote: post #204

Cannot describe how shitty it felt to tell everyone I told that I actually didn't get accepted.

I would also like to add how genuinely excited I was, I am going through a difficult time right now and this felt like I was actually going to turn things around. Sure this was bad for everyone but really just terrible timing for me.
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