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Tanking the YC interview, some lessons learned
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Re: Tanking the YC interview, some lessons learned
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
"A lot of companies rejected by YC have went on successfully; some have even re-applied several times before getting in." I applied with someone who is widely recognized as one of the smartest tech folks on HN. We got rejected. A couple years later I reapplied and got accepted as a non-technical single founder. In two years I went from getting shot down despite having a dream team on paper, to getting accepted despit…
>...got accepted as a non-technical single founder. That's interesting. I didn't know YC had funded a non-technical single founder before. I wonder how many non-technical single founders it's funded to-date. >It's kind of a long story as to why Would love to hear that story. Also, what startup did you get in with?
"Would love to hear that story."
I just wrote up the story as a blog post:
http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2011/04/how-i-got-i...
Re: Tanking the YC interview, some lessons learned
#43Wow, thank you everyone for the incredible responses and support. I'm really glad people found the post useful.
I didn't link to Munchery because I intended to write something to help future interviewees, not to promote the company. But it's really encouraging that people seem to like the idea :)
Re: Tanking the YC interview, some lessons learned
#44Fuck 'em. Product looks great. Would love more specific service regions that "bay area" -- would love to see who will actually cover my town. I suspect the market for this is way bigger than people realize. Especially if you include non-chefs. I will be checking back.
Word. Food is a tougher than a lot of other p2p marketplace ideas because of legal FUD.
I am very excited to use Munchery in Portland. Food delivery in general is good in Portland (in terms of selection), but stops early (10PM).
A tweak on this idea is Housefed (http://housefed.com). (Which rather than target professional chefs on the producer side, targets normal folks, and is a bit more social than transactional.)
(Full disclosure: Housefed founder Emile is a buddy.)
SF's recent urban agriculture law (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/20/... making it legal for you to sell things you grow in your garden) makes me feel hopeful that the government will generally ease up on making these p2p relationships easier. I see so many rad food startups stepping very gingerly into the marketplace + am rooting for the all.