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Re: Vote up if you're rejected but will still proceed

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Post by jamongkad »

whacked_new wrote: post #43
jamongkad wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? Philippines here, I got rejected too but it's cool, After much evaluation on my part. My start up needs customers more than investors at this point. And yeah living in the Philippines I have the advantage of lower expenses all across the board. :-)

I dunno about the Philippines, but I do know that user preferences in the Eastern hemisphere are very different from those in the West. And if you are developing for a Western audience, you may very well be in the wrong place.

True but the Philippines is the 2nd largest outsourcing country to India(Correct me if I'm wrong) Although I agree that going out there and getting to know your customers is the most important thing.

Re: Vote up if you're rejected but will still proceed

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Post by brezina »

vlad wrote: post #39
dhouston wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

they are looking for employees :P but it would be a much better learning experience than a typical job; you'd be joining early enough that you'd be with the company basically from the beginning and would have much more of an opportunity to take on serious responsibility and make a significant impact (that, and much more equity than later employees :P)

Definitely! It's a great job opportunity and you guys are great! I was just wondering why a job ad was posted here. :P

We definitely want entrepreneurial hackers on our team. I often say entire aspects of our company are tableau rosa. There is fertile ground for innovation and creativity not found in big companies. I guess we are hiring employees, but I've not once used that word.

Ask Craig Silverstein if he has regretted being Google's third guy.

Re: Vote up if you're rejected but will still proceed

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Post by nickb »

neurokinetikz wrote: post #15

today was an odd day ... it started out with my site (neurokinetikz.com) winning a webby award http://webbyawards.com/webbys/current_honorees.php?category_id=48 and then ended with a rejection email from YC odd indeed ... c'est la vie ;)

I spent a couple dozen seconds on your site and had no clue what it was about. You need to focus your pitch and make it more obvious for "old" folks like myself. You lost me as a viewer very quickly.

PS: Lose the obnoxious, animated, poorly incorporated wrt background color GIFs... they gave me a headache.

PPS: Also, lose the first page: you'll get better SEO results & it won't look like it's 1997. ;)

Re: Vote up if you're rejected but will still proceed

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Post by Readmore »

I would hope that you would continue working! yCombinator isn't the end all be all, it's not really even what matters. Just make something that you feel has value and hopefully other people will too. I think Paul is a very intelligent guy and I love reading his views on stuff but if you stop working on a startup just because you didn't get his blessing into yComb then you're giving him WAY too much credit.

Re: Vote up if you're rejected but will still proceed

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Post by cwilbur »

I knew I was a long shot. I had two strikes against me in that I'm a single founder and I'm more interested in building a company I want to work for than in becoming rich at it -- so my interests and investors' interests don't line up.

Of course I'm still proceeding -- Y Combinator money was a means to an end, and not an end in itself.

Re: Vote up if you're rejected but will still proceed

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Post by omouse »

eskaper wrote: post #16

we didn't get in but will keep going; the only frustrating part of our rejection is that ycomb didn't even look at our demo (they would have had to login to do so).

This is an easy problem to correct. Have a link that POSTs the demo login (or whatever) and tosses the user in directly instead of requiring the user to type in demo twice.

Or is that what you did?

Re: Vote up if you're rejected but will still proceed

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Post by dmgreer »

Of course, my thing is already started, the YC thing was just a last minute deal, I only found out about it a couple of weeks before the deadline. People are interested in what I'm doing, interest is building, and I have a lot of ideas to continue improving it.

I'll still be looking for some cash, though, because development would go a lot faster if I didn't have to work to pay the bills, and it would help me compete against anybody who might be out there to compete against me.

Re: Vote up if you're rejected but will still proceed

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Post by budu3 »

brezina wrote: post #19

Hi guys. Sorry about the news. I suggest joining my YC alum startup, Xobni, instead. Sometimes great hackers joinup instead of startup . That is what Paul Buchheit did : http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/03/looking-for-co-founder-try-attending.html send resumes: http://www.xobni.com/jobs.php

I did send my resume some time back. The least you guys could have done was to send me a regret letter.

Re: Vote up if you're rejected but will still proceed

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Post by hello_moto »

brezina wrote: post #19

Hi guys. Sorry about the news. I suggest joining my YC alum startup, Xobni, instead. Sometimes great hackers joinup instead of startup . That is what Paul Buchheit did : http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/03/looking-for-co-founder-try-attending.html send resumes: http://www.xobni.com/jobs.php

Sorry I couldn't resist to reply. I just checked xobni job page and was surprised that they're looking for someone with C# knowledge. I assume they're building something based on ASP.NET ? (or at least .NET technology)

So right now the list of startup companies that use .NET has grown to 2 in YCombinator? Xobni and Loopt (arguably one of the most successful YCombinator investment).

PG, any thought on that?

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