Yay! Rejected! Withing hours!!
Anyways, I wasn't waiting for YC to do a startup anyways. If you wanna do a startup, you don't wait for YC - you do it.
Off I go.
Y Combinator W2011 application (my rejection email)
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Re: Y Combinator W2011 application (my rejection email)
#42I just got my rejection letter too. I have to say, though, that the whole experience has been great. Filling out the application really made me think a lot about my business, and what my pitch is. It's amazing the clarity that comes from writing the answers to those questions down and making that video. Good luck to everyone who hasn't been rejected yet! :)
Yah man! It gave me clarity. That was nice. :P
Re: Y Combinator W2011 application (my rejection email)
#43In the summer of 2008 I asked out two girls and promptly got rejected by both of them ironically on the same day. A few months later I asked another girl out. Two snowstorms and a few years later, the third girl is now my wife. Rejection isn't always bad.
You married the third girl you ever asked out?
I married the first one, over half a life time ago. Some times you just get lucky.
Edit: Before I get uber-up/down-voted into oblivion and challenged because I am not 50, the accurate version of this statement should read "I married the first one, whom I started dating over half a life time ago". Still going strong though :)
Re: Y Combinator W2011 application (my rejection email)
#44I just got my rejection letter too. I have to say, though, that the whole experience has been great. Filling out the application really made me think a lot about my business, and what my pitch is. It's amazing the clarity that comes from writing the answers to those questions down and making that video. Good luck to everyone who hasn't been rejected yet! :)
Bravo man - good post. Good luck to you as well. We were rejected, but life is not about how many times you fall. It's about how many times you get back up.
Re: Y Combinator W2011 application (my rejection email)
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
You married the third girl you ever asked out?
I married the first one, over half a life time ago. Some times you just get lucky. Edit: Before I get uber-up/down-voted into oblivion and challenged because I am not 50, the accurate version of this statement should read "I married the first one, whom I started dating over half a life time ago". Still going strong though :)
Wow.. you're the only person I'm aware of where that actually worked out for the best. Congratulations!
Re: Y Combinator W2011 application (my rejection email)
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I married the first one, over half a life time ago. Some times you just get lucky. Edit: Before I get uber-up/down-voted into oblivion and challenged because I am not 50, the accurate version of this statement should read "I married the first one, whom I started dating over half a life time ago". Still going strong though :)
Wow.. you're the only person I'm aware of where that actually worked out for the best. Congratulations!
Thanks. I was incredibly lucky, both in meeting her and in how shared challenges helped us build a very strong friendship over the next several years to support what started as an infatuation. I am aware of how rare it is and don't recommend making life changing decisions like marriage based solely on romantic notions of first love.
Re: Y Combinator W2011 application (my rejection email)
#47In 2006 I met with many investors in Moscow, Russia, but the meeting ended unsuccessfully. Distance I then? Honestly, yes. But I was sure that they are just complete morons and do not understand what I did. I brought everything to the end and one year after the launch of my project was bought Fontlab, and now my technology used in Adobe Illustrator CS 5. I was upset now, after the YC rejection? Yes. But I really thought a great project and bring it to the end. We make a new Google. 2 people, Moscow. If you're interested, let me know - bourdine@gmail.com
Re: Y Combinator W2011 application (my rejection email)
#48In the summer of 2008 I asked out two girls and promptly got rejected by both of them ironically on the same day. A few months later I asked another girl out. Two snowstorms and a few years later, the third girl is now my wife. Rejection isn't always bad.
You married the third girl you ever asked out?
Third girl in 2008, yes.
Re: Y Combinator W2011 application (my rejection email)
#49Make your startup happen, continue regardless of the rejection.
Re: Y Combinator W2011 application (my rejection email)
#50Failure, sir, is not an option.