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So, I've actually gone through the local version of Marine Corps training with the 'crawling on your belly through mud with bullets whizzing over your head' part and served near North Iraq for 9 months as a squad leader. It was basically hard like hell and fainting teammates due to exhaustion wasn't unusual during basic training. Should I include this experience to my application form if I ever decide to apply to YCo…
My dad was a Marine Corps sniper in Vietnam. I'm pretty sure you won't get PTSD from doing YC.
"... Like war, everything in startups is life or death ..." I appreciate the enthusiasm & romanticism of the story, but don't for a minute confuse working in a Startup and a real "life & death" situation. Things have to be done perfectly, freeze, screw up or make a mistake and you end up with a corpse instead of a person. Why not say it, "as it is" - a relatively safe, exciting creative job where you get to make your…
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The trick is finding an effective way to include this in your story. YC isn't, or shouldn't, be your only incubator option and others will require you to communicate your story with very few words. (And just because YC doesn't require it doesn't mean that you shouldn't keep it in mind.) I run an international SAR team (www.1srg.org) and kept forgetting that it was a startup. I've been trying to include that experienc…
Good point. And that's something I'm not terribly good at yet. I tend to use too many words when communicating. I need to learn to tighten things up a bit. :-(
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Do you mean investors like Dave McClure who write in all lower case? Or investors like Matt Coffin, who writes his "you" with a u, even in public posts? Just trying to get a little clarification here. And, to answer your question, more than a dozen investors have thought, "Let me sign this convertible note."
Just because they're investors doesn't mean they're off the hook for writing like crap. Having a lot of money isn't a free pass for mangling the English language.
some optimize for speed & utility... others optimize for look & feel. neither is necessarily correct, just different.
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Just because they're investors doesn't mean they're off the hook for writing like crap. Having a lot of money isn't a free pass for mangling the English language.
neither does it mean they're awesome if they use perfect punctuation and grammar. some optimize for speed & utility... others optimize for look & feel. neither is necessarily correct, just different.
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Just because they're investors doesn't mean they're off the hook for writing like crap. Having a lot of money isn't a free pass for mangling the English language.
neither does it mean they're awesome if they use perfect punctuation and grammar. some optimize for speed & utility... others optimize for look & feel. neither is necessarily correct, just different.