Good luck everybody. If you fail, don't worry, keep learning, iterating and hustling. We failed last time, made some changes and then successfully raised from great early stage investors.
great job! great attitude! who did you raise from and how did failing at YC application help you? I've applied for this cycle. Waiting eagerly.
We eventually raised from SV Angel, Floodgate, TechCrunch co-founder Keith Teare (Archimedes Labs) and others. We had enough offers to raise 1M, we took only 700K.
We didn't get much feedback during the interview; Paul, Robert and Trevor didn't give us a hard time, they actually liked the product. 10 minutes feels like a minute.
But the vision we pitched them was rough around the edges. We re-branded the product and changed market positioning completely right after.