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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 dcurry1357 »

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...

Wow...great point, 7% female founders in the first 9 pages, and out of 300+ members only 1 AA female and 1 AA male...

Yeah, very telling indeed.

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Post by dcurry1357 »

chaostheory wrote: post #307
kleopullin wrote: post #285

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

There’s another obvious pattern if you look at enough profiles

Solid facts....I went through every page and yeah...smh, definite pattern and type.

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Post by usurpedfounder »

adora wrote: post #297

Hi everyone, after all this, we believe the right thing to do is to accept everyone into Startup School, so we're going to find a way to make this work. More info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17806459

Adora, applaude YC's efforts to do the right thing! Admitted applicants, however, are getting a diluted experience; thus the solution takes away fairness from the admitted applicants. It's an impossible situation and all the time/energy YC is spending to fix it is incredible! Some suggestions:

1. Give the originally accepted applicants access to a separate pool of 100 $10k grants - so they have the same odds of accessing the grants. 2. If 1 isn't possible, try to think of other perks that the accepted pool gets access to (in addition to what was already offered to make up for the larger pool of people with access to the grants) 3. In tandem with 1 or 2, put some meritocratic constraints around all participants. In order to stay in start-up school, partcipants must read x book, conduct x experiments, etc. This way those who will really put effort into the program and be a part of the community will get to participate. After all, as Duckworth's book Grit outlines,and some research at Google, effort coupled with curiosity is an important predictor of success.

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Post by mc_lovin_ »

w_allDueRespect wrote: post #319
getcloser wrote: post #302

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Not sure if it make sense. No competition no fun.

How does that make any sense? Now instead of competing with 3000 applicants, you're competing with 15000 for the $10,000. Your chances of winning the prize just decreased 5 fold.

From the email

you’ll be able to use the company update feature so that you’ll also be eligible for one of the hundred $10k equity-free grant

So I think the competition is still among the actually selected 3000 applicants and there will be one slot for the rest of them.

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Post by nguyenthanhloc »

mzanchi wrote: post #239
callen6 wrote: post #156

My cofounder and I were cheers-ing about our acceptance an hour ago and now we're texting about this y-combinator screw-up--we're not accepted after all! For all the other founders and teams who had that momentary confidence of outside reenforcement -- remember how unstoppable and brave you felt in that moment! That glow doesn't have to go away with a retraction email. Hold onto the feeling. Go make great things, go…

I have the good fortune of living in Vietnam, so all this happened while I was sound asleep, and when I woke up I read the rejection email first, as it arrived later and was higher up my inbox. Time for coffee and back to coding.

Vietnam? Hey I am a Vietnamese founder here :) I'm a business person so you might not like me, but it's good to see a fellow founder in Vietnam!

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Post by briangonzalez »

pcmaffey wrote: post #306
pcmaffey wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Willing to share details about: - how many companies applied? - how many were accepted into advisor track? - how many received false acceptance email (if not the difference of the former 2)?

For anyone curious, the answers are: - 15k applied - 4k were accepted - 11k received false acceptance emails

source?

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by otto_ortega »

samstave wrote: post #162
hellojebus wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty certain I incorrectly received the "Ooops, you didn't actually email" Please confirm this bug. My company is basically a unicorn.

"Oh youre a founder huh?" "Yep" "What company?" "We are in stealth-mode, currently" "Ah, what stage are you at, can you share that?" "Yeah, like I said, we are a stealth-mode pre-unicorn startupschool audit track company"

I salute you and celebrate your epic comment! hahaha

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by [deleted] »

martin-adams wrote: post #143

We just got the acceptance and apology email. I’m not going to get upset about it. But I’ll float this idea, for anyone who didn’t get accepted, would you be interested in a discord/Slack/whatever and share feedback of each other’s progress? The thing I will miss most is the weekly focus to deliver some progress. No reason that can’t happen in a non-official capacity. DM me on Twitter if you’re interested: https://tw…

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