Guideacity hasn't been selected, but we are keeping our work going and see how far we can get. Also if there is someone in New York who can create a website like Airbnb please let me know!
YC W13 Applicants
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, put another way, it might mean that your application wasn't really, really good. It could have been good, or, in fact, it might have been really good - but, I suspect the YC approach is to start with the very, very good applications. They then try and eliminate some percentage of those through some further due-diligence, bring a smaller group in for interviews, and then finally select a very small percentage of…
Thanks for the tips. As for enterprise, we want to eat ni.com's lunch since a lot of threir lower end systems require a computer to operate. We're thinking of doing a kick starter to get 50 to 100 prototypes built and the case design finalized. The hardware is solid and the firmware/server side features are pretty much done. Feel free (anyone else too) to contact me if interested in a demo. We're in Mountain View.
Probably a better strategy. If you take a look at Jessica Livingston's talk from Startup School (http://startupschool.org/2012/livingston/) she notes that YC gets nervous about hardware--but nerds (like me) on Kickstarter love it. That's how the pebble watch came to grow successfully. Kickstarter is once of the few places you can find and fund really innovative hardware products. Best of luck
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#74Daniel, can you remove my entry from the list? It is #73 (educat.me )
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#75mobius.io here, we make hardware and were pretty excited when we read http://www.paulgraham.com/hw.html . Got rejected today and checked the server logs, saw nobody ever logged into our demo site. Is this typical or just means that our application was really, really bad?
I looked at the site as well. I'm curious how you plan to differentiate from say Nest or Android@Home.
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#76I saw one that said "A hyperlocal social photo bookmarking site for mobile" and immediately thought of http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6507690/hardly-working-sta... . Definitely use a less douchey description in your actual YC app. Or at least name your company Devil's Deuce Interactive.
I'm pretty sure you just got trolled - their website is a 404.
Now there's a Webvan one. I kind of don't get it. It seems like YC is one of the least deserving targets if you're going to mock the Valley hype machine.
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#77What inference can one make from a reject?
(A) Got 4/5 video views from YC/partners and even as late as November 11th.
(B) If there were no video hits at all.
Looking for some postmortem but shouldn't stop me from continuing my work.
It will help us know which axes to improve up on for the next time.
So for example, if we have had video hits and got rejected, does it mean the idea sounded good but they were not convinced with the team? Helps one learn...
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the tips. As for enterprise, we want to eat ni.com's lunch since a lot of threir lower end systems require a computer to operate. We're thinking of doing a kick starter to get 50 to 100 prototypes built and the case design finalized. The hardware is solid and the firmware/server side features are pretty much done. Feel free (anyone else too) to contact me if interested in a demo. We're in Mountain View.
Probably a better strategy. If you take a look at Jessica Livingston's talk from Startup School ( http://startupschool.org/2012/livingston/ ) she notes that YC gets nervous about hardware--but nerds (like me) on Kickstarter love it. That's how the pebble watch came to grow successfully. Kickstarter is once of the few places you can find and fund really innovative hardware products. Best of luck
Thanks for the link. I figured YC knew the risk if PG asked for more hardware people to apply. It's true that it's very hard to have the same type of growth in a hardware startup as software, but someone has to make the gadgets. Additionally, while Kickstarter gives you funding, they don't provide the same type of mentorship that YC may offer.
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#79mobius.io here, we make hardware and were pretty excited when we read http://www.paulgraham.com/hw.html . Got rejected today and checked the server logs, saw nobody ever logged into our demo site. Is this typical or just means that our application was really, really bad?
I looked at the site as well. I'm curious how you plan to differentiate from say Nest or Android@Home.
The initial mobius.io device has 16 general purpose I/O lines, several serial ports, and analog in, so it is much more flexible than Nest. As for Android@Home, mobius also has its own cloud service, so you don't need to worry about infrastructure. What we would like to do is to have the same functionality of something like NI USB-6009 (http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/201987) without the computer. And we also have LabVIEW drivers for our device. So you can automate things in your business/home from anywhere using JS/LabVIEW/HTTP GET if you wanted to.
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#80For companies which got an interview, I'd strongly recommend not listing yourself on this list. Do you really want TechCrunch/etc looking through this list and writing your fundraising articles without your involvement?
I think what TechCrunch does is unimportant to people who give money to people who receive money. Someone's spreadsheet isn't going to ruin a good idea or a good team.
There is no reason not to be in control of your press. The last thing you want is a poor or misleading TechCrunch article announcing you.
It's not going to ruin anyone, but it's not optimal, and there's no reason to fill it out other than pride.