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I'm apply last year (W11) but was rejected. Now I know why - not because I'm russian, just my idea was a totally shit. Thanks PG, that you reject me. I got many ideas since last year - Startups Franchise, Help Button to any smartphones and many other, I invent new XML-format RSS+ and tons of many ohers great things. Now I got an idea, that 85% of G+ techbloggers say 'this is realy cool' because this is really cool, n…
Shameless plug: I want to do this 100%. I have exhausted every single person I know who codes for the passed 4 years. It pretty much comes down to "They don't want to do the work and are completely happy in their current job". If anyone is interested, I would love to be your co-founder. I have built several websites. I am experienced in both C# and Java. Ive built several Android Apps. I know DBs like the back of my…
What do you guys (and gals) think about non-technical co-founders? Well at least co-founders who are barely learning to code?
How many solo founders were accepted in summer 2011? Has the % accepted increased with the larger class size?
Solution: Don't be a solo founder. I spent a few years trying to go that route. It's death. Death. If you can't sell someone else on joining up, how on earth are you going to sell someone in giving you money?
solo is hard, not just on yourself, but also in terms of statistics. it can be done, but it's probably easier to find at least another person to tilt the odds slightly in your favor.
Has anyone from other countries signed up for this? Does anyone know how the visa situation is in order to work for those 3 months in the USA?
I founded a company and had an exit while still in college full time. I had 13 employees when I was 19, I currently work for a well funded startup with top tier investors and ship code every day. Yet even with all that said I have not managed to get to the interview round.
This time around I have something a little more special in store for my application, so we shall see how this works. For me (like many others I'm sure) the problem is not selling people on the idea, it is selling qualified people on the idea. I want to bring on someone who can truly add value to the team and I want a partner not just another body.
It's just finding a way to stand out on the application process that a solo founder has a hard time with, I think many solo founders don't realize exactly how hard that is when the YC staff reads through more than 2,000 apps each cycle now.
How many solo founders were accepted in summer 2011? Has the % accepted increased with the larger class size?
Solution: Don't be a solo founder. I spent a few years trying to go that route. It's death. Death. If you can't sell someone else on joining up, how on earth are you going to sell someone in giving you money?
That's dramatically over-simplifying things. It's not just about selling "somebody" on the idea, it's about finding the right "somebody" AND then selling them on the idea, AND them being in a position where they're able to jump on it.
If you're willing to just take anybody on as a co-founder, you can easily have 5, 10, 15, 20, 372, or 14000 co-founders. But if you're discriminating and looking for the right match of interests, skills, experience, enthusiasm, personality, etc., it can take a long time to find somebody who's right.
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Solo founder here. YC S10. We have 8 people now, are well funded and making good revenues. It might not have worked for you but that doesn't mean it can't be done.
Congrats! Absolutely it can be done. And absolutely I failed to pull it off by myself. That doesn't change my advice to folks to find a co-founder.
Right, but you're not advocating the "stop the world" and do nothing until they do find a co-founder, are you? I guess that's my point: a solo-founder isn't necessarily somebody who intends to stay a solo-founder, but are likely someone who just hasn't found their co-founder(s) yet. And I, for one, would not advocate stopping everything until you find that person (or persons).
What do you guys (and gals) think about non-technical co-founders? Well at least co-founders who are barely learning to code?
The founders don't all have to be programmers, but we prefer there be at least one.