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Rejection by YC does not mean your idea/team/execution is not good. Just keep working on your startup, in the mean time you may want to try some other top programs like techstars, 5000startups, angelpad, etc
I think it's easy to forget that there was a time when accelerators did not exist. It's a great resource and experience for those accepted, but not being accepted does not necessarily equate to failure as you suggested.
Well what is really weird is that yC's top hits as per an annotation on Harj's recent mock letter on Rapgenius got looked over: " We missed Dropbox, Heroku and Airbnb. " [1] If the 3 supposed hits that presently created most of yC's entire known value got passed over by the VCs at first go.. one has to be a bit skeptical about the whole idol contest. [1] - http://rapgenius.com/Harj-taggar-well-be-circling-back-lyric.…
That was a joke; he was writing as if he were an outside VC who wanted to get in on YC's next Dropbox, having missed the first one. (Coincidentally PG has said he didn't "get" AirBnB initially, but I don't think they got rejected; I'm not sure if the first Drew application which was rejected was for Dropbox or something else. I've never seen anything public about Heroku's application to YC)
I just want to say that e-mail looks very well-written and comforting for a rejection e-mail. I wish companies sent similar rejection e-mails to job applicants. Keep your spirits up, rejectees, this is not the end of the world. Continue doing your thing. :)
I wish girls would do the same thing. Imagine how nice the world would be if everyone wrote their rejections this way!
I just want to say that e-mail looks very well-written and comforting for a rejection e-mail. I wish companies sent similar rejection e-mails to job applicants. Keep your spirits up, rejectees, this is not the end of the world. Continue doing your thing. :)
I wish girls would do the same thing. Imagine how nice the world would be if everyone wrote their rejections this way!
Oh well.. targeting for the YC application gave me the required focus in the last 5 months to turn my hobby/personal-use site into a full fledged travel blogging & recommendations platform ready to launch in a couple of months.
I don't think i will re-apply any time soon. My goal, starting Kettik, was to achieve creative, financial and geographic freedom. To create something of my own, travel, live and work from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. Not sure how free i would've been if i had funding, a team to manage and investors to give returns to. So i guess the best thing to do is to continue on my own and focus on making Kettik profitable enough to sustain itself, me and my co-founders (if i manage to find any).
And maybe one day if it grows too big for me to manage, i'll go knocking on YC's doors again.
I think YC has done more than enough for me. Anything more and this would become a fairy tale :). To be honest, I never wanted this to be an easy fairy tale. I want this to be a story worth telling to my children. I like battles where the victor emerges half-alive.
Now its time for me to captain this ship to the shore. And damnit I will :) This is my ship, my baby, and I will never let it sink alone.
Im so thankful for the people in my life. They stick with me and believe in me regardless of my lunacy, willing to take the bullets for me.
Keep working hard people. We'll meet each other at the finish line. :)
Applied as a single founder with http://www.class-central.com . Still looking for a co-founder, mail me if interested :)