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Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by ausjke » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:02 AM UTC

geoff wrote: post #16

pcmaffey wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does that mean you have 160 advisors scheduled for this?

yes, in that neighborhood.

For the lucky ones you will share one adviser with other 24 peers, that's quite a workload for the adviser.

Good luck to all.

Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by bigwheeler » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:02 AM UTC

syntaxing wrote: post #26

For someone out of the loop, what exactly are in the discount code and the 10K equity free grant? Does everyone get it on the completion of the course or does YC choose a selected few?

YC chooses a selected group of 100 startups. Time to start studying!

Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by seanlinehan » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:03 AM UTC

I hope somebody runs the data in the future to see if there was a statistical difference in outcomes between the companies intended to be accepted vs. not :-)

Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by Waterluvian » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:04 AM UTC

I'm out of the loop. What are the actual costs of advisorless groups? Is it just bandwidth and server costs or are there further services.

Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:04 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #25

proofread wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you explain what happened more? 4,000 companies were accepted but 11,000 received acceptance emails?

Yes, and the 4,000 received rejections. It was a big boolean fuckup.

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Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by aliakhtar » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:05 AM UTC

sandslash wrote: post #27

aliakhtar wrote: post #12

This is fantastic. It would be great if there could be a way for teams to 'level up' and get access to an advisor + the AWS / Stripe credits. Is that possible @yc ?

We have a limited number of advisors but YC partners/staff will be on the forum to help out in any way we can.

As some of the 'accepted' companies with advisors quit / drop out and spots open up, could those spots be filled with promising companies who don't have advisors?

Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by lugg » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:06 AM UTC

proofread wrote: post #14

geoff wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We had originally accepted about 4000 - although our goal has always been to make our MOOC as much about "open" as we possibly can. Our own misstep has caused us to accelerate things.

Could you explain what happened more? 4,000 companies were accepted but 11,000 received acceptance emails?

Wild Speculation: typo in a limit clause. Probably only a few extra thousand got accepted but instead of weed them out they figured fuck it.

I'm going to also guess and say user accounts were created in a not easily rolled back way after the fact.

Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by snowmaker » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:07 AM UTC

seanlinehan wrote: post #33

I hope somebody runs the data in the future to see if there was a statistical difference in outcomes between the companies intended to be accepted vs. not :-)

That is a good idea! We conducted an inadvertent A/B test :)

Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by sandslash » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:07 AM UTC

syntaxing wrote: post #26

For someone out of the loop, what exactly are in the discount code and the 10K equity free grant? Does everyone get it on the completion of the course or does YC choose a selected few?

Since this is a brand new update to Startup School, we're going to work on figuring out how we can offer discounts/deals to all founders in the program. Stay tuned!

Re: Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

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Post by sodafountan » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 3:07 AM UTC

aliakhtar wrote: post #12

This is fantastic. It would be great if there could be a way for teams to 'level up' and get access to an advisor + the AWS / Stripe credits. Is that possible @yc ?

This would be awesome, especially after reading the numbers. Apparently, 15,000 applied and YC was going to take in about 4,000 companies. That's roughly 1/3 of applicants; if you factor in that I'm sure quite a few of the companies that would have been denied in the first place might not participate anyway then I'm sure this is probably doable.