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

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Post by budu3 »

hello_moto wrote: post #60
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?

As far a languages go, there's no silver bullet, go with whatever your team is comfortable with.

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

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Post by IMorgothI12 »

theoutlander wrote: post #28
jason13 wrote: post #13

Did y combinator even take much of a look at the demo's?

No, I think they have been very busy ... besides, the idea has to sound promising to waste time looking at a demo...

They looked at my demo. I still got rejected thought. A better question is how many demos they looked at that still got rejected.

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

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Post by IMorgothI12 »

vlad wrote: post #9
amichail wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, yes, you would probably want to see how the world reacts before giving up.

If you honestly think PG rejected people based on their idea, I think you're wrong. That's probably the last criteria he used. So, work on the idea. I would reject 90% of submissions, too, if I was running something like this. For example, with Google, Google AdSense was the glue that made everything work (profitability, great product, many users, good reputation, ability to have free food.) You might say their demo…

The problem isn't when you have an idea and get rejected it's when you have a really good idea and still get rejected.

That's when it hurts.

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

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Post by philc »

hello_moto wrote: post #60
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?

And consider that they their products thus far are outlook-based. MS does a lot of the work for you if you use their tools and language.

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

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Post by euccastro »

brezina wrote: post #52
vlad wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You mean 'tabula rasa', or is that some sort of pun?
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