The Muse's Successful Application to YC W12
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The Muse's Successful Application to YC W12
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Re: The Muse's Successful Application to YC W12
#2Don't want to sound like a downer, but I'd also love to see applications where the founders weren't your typical white MIT, Harvard, Yale graduates/PhDs who worked at McKinsey GoogleBookSoft.
Re: The Muse's Successful Application to YC W12
#3Don't want to sound like a downer, but I'd also love to see applications where the founders weren't your typical white MIT, Harvard, Yale graduates/PhDs who worked at McKinsey GoogleBookSoft.
yeah, i'm very surprised and disappointed how much YC has allowed itself to be gamed just like any other industry they seek to disrupt.
Re: The Muse's Successful Application to YC W12
#4"We didn't think we were what YC was looking for..."
I'm so glad you took the time to apply! Your idea was slightly different back then, but I remember how impressive you were during the YC interview. As you said in your application:
Among the members of the founding team we have domain
expertise in recruiting; in content creation and promotion;
and in directly engaging with women ages 20-35. What's
more, we've been working in this specific field (job
opportunities and career advice for professional women)
for the last year, and the response from women has been
unbelievable. Our user testimonials sometimes verge on
the fanatical.
Re: The Muse's Successful Application to YC W12
#5Huh, their careers page has several "jobs" available for people to write articles for them... unpaid. You know, the old "it's good exposure" bait for people who don't know any better.
Re: The Muse's Successful Application to YC W12
#6Don't want to sound like a downer, but I'd also love to see applications where the founders weren't your typical white MIT, Harvard, Yale graduates/PhDs who worked at McKinsey GoogleBookSoft.
yeah, i'm very surprised and disappointed how much YC has allowed itself to be gamed just like any other industry they seek to disrupt.
They want smart people and those smart people tend to go to good schools and get hired by Google, McK, Bain, etc.
Re: The Muse's Successful Application to YC W12
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
yeah, i'm very surprised and disappointed how much YC has allowed itself to be gamed just like any other industry they seek to disrupt.
They want smart people and those smart people tend to go to good schools and get hired by Google, McK, Bain, etc.
they should want risk-takers, not people seeking the shelter of Google, McK, Bain, etc.
Re: The Muse's Successful Application to YC W12
#8Out of curiosity, if the founders are reading this thread, how did YC help you to improve your company? Specifically, did they help you in any way that you couldn't have done without them?
Re: The Muse's Successful Application to YC W12
#9Don't want to sound like a downer, but I'd also love to see applications where the founders weren't your typical white MIT, Harvard, Yale graduates/PhDs who worked at McKinsey GoogleBookSoft.
We (Lollipuff) released our application. We were undergrads at Nebraska, Iowa State, and Idaho: https://www.lollipuff.com/blog/102/lollipuffs-ycombinator-ex...
(Though I did a PhD at GT, and David worked at Google post-ITA acquisition. :-/ However, our CEO did neither.)
Re: The Muse's Successful Application to YC W12
#10I got a kick for a second imagining the band Muse as a YC company.