Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In • Hacker News Board

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by danielcolgan » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 2:03 AM UTC

sama wrote: post #262

sama wrote: post #226

We feel awful about this and we're working on a solution. We'll have more to share in the next 24 hours, hopefully sooner. Edit: ok, here's what we've got: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17806459 .

Update: we will have something to share tonight, and I think people will be pretty happy :)

Thank you!

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by proofread » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 2:03 AM UTC

sama wrote: post #226

We feel awful about this and we're working on a solution. We'll have more to share in the next 24 hours, hopefully sooner. Edit: ok, here's what we've got: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17806459 .

Thanks Sam, I think you can surprise the "rejects" by doing something to inspire them to continue to pursue their projects and dreams, maybe a competition and winner gets something. Maybe invite them to an event in MV and have a party.

Don't rush, there are plenty of options.

Cheers.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by mic500 » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 2:06 AM UTC

Mapsmithy wrote: post #34

I knew it was a little premature to spend the $10k

$10K? There'll be no much money left after you live in the bay area for 10 weeks

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by handymarks » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 2:09 AM UTC

sama wrote: post #226

We feel awful about this and we're working on a solution. We'll have more to share in the next 24 hours, hopefully sooner. Edit: ok, here's what we've got: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17806459 .

Thank you Sam!

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by kleopullin » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 2:09 AM UTC

chaostheory wrote: post #195

greysteil wrote: post #20

So much love for everyone who received an "accepted" email in error. Don't let it get you down. I just got rejected with https://dependabot.com despite $6k MRR and 2,000 active users. I'm sure there are lots of other great companies in the same situation - let's keep building great things.

Totally agree. The application for startup school was short and easy to fill out. Even with the normal YC application, it's basically getting you to write a business plan which is useful in of itself. Not sure if it'll help anyone, but I feel better when I see the backgrounds of the people who got in: https://theymadethat.com/organizations/d55c2ee1-c72e-568e-bb...

7% female founders in first 10 pages. That's a downer.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by pcmaffey » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 2:12 AM UTC

pedalpete wrote: post #263

pcmaffey wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given the sheer volume of applications, my guess is they rely heavily on your LinkedIn profile to pattern match based on their profile of a successful YC candidate. So yeah just because you don't look like what they want you to look like (school, history, network, etc), that's no judgement on you. Keep on keeping on.

That may be a heuristic, but if I'm any example, it's not all there is. I don't have a university degree and I doubt the companies I've worked for would be known by YC.

I'm sure your 4k karma helped though ;)

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by msea82 » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 2:14 AM UTC

sama wrote: post #262

sama wrote: post #226

We feel awful about this and we're working on a solution. We'll have more to share in the next 24 hours, hopefully sooner. Edit: ok, here's what we've got: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17806459 .

Update: we will have something to share tonight, and I think people will be pretty happy :)

Thank you so much!

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by mic500 » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 2:14 AM UTC

Hi everyone, I have an idea, why we just live YC along for a few hours, let them do what they need to do and waiting for the result. If they have to answer almost same questions in here or on twitter, they'll have fewer people to do the 'update', let's just wait and talking to each other.

Here is the key info: 'Update: we will have something to share tonight, and I think people will be pretty happy :)'

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by akshaydipali » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 2:26 AM UTC

So I am confused. I got accepted in advisor track and then now its saying I am accepted for auditor track. So am I in? or am I not?

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by dang » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 2:31 AM UTC

akshaydipali wrote: post #289

So I am confused. I got accepted in advisor track and then now its saying I am accepted for auditor track. So am I in? or am I not?

It was a gigantic mistake on our part. We sent out emails that accepted everyone that was rejected and rejected everyone that was accepted. It was a big boolean fuckup and we're deeply sorry.

As for whether you're in or not - stay tuned. People have been working feverishly on this for several hours and an announcement is almost ready.