I know I AM !! :) Who's with me? You'll face many rejections throughout the lifetime of the company, if you stop at the first rejection, you've already lost.
Please describe in 1-3 sentences what you're building.
If you got rejected, Mixpanel is giving out free startup plans to all those that are rejected to help bootstrap. Please forward your rejection email as proof. Email [email protected]. Keep chugging along.
If it makes you feel better, you can assume the title to be this instead:
Didn't get in YC S11? How are you going to charge forwards?
I think the point of this post was for it to be a morale booster. While everyone might agree to go on charging forwards, people will most likely have different approaches in doing so. That's what this is all about.
To stop now would admit defeat. And I never admit defeat. We are changing the game on how developers get jobs. It's time recruiters are put out of business, companies get the right employees and developers wake up every day loving their jobs. If you run a startup or looking for software work in Sf or Boston and want an exclusive invite to demo, email [email protected]
My opinion is that applying for funding should merely be something to bring 'excitement' to an otherwise tough' monotonous' life of an entrepreneur.
Whether you get funded does not only depend on the ingenuity of your idea but a match between you and the funder.
You should continue working because you believe in your idea (to some extent but over-believing is unhealthy) and simply because what else would you do with your spare time =)
Nope, Already doing it. A user driven embed-able music polling platform / app. Its partially developed right now and will be rocking the music industry very soon. We also hold huge ground with existing social networks and launching already developed apps very soon. Looking forward to being the one that got away... and never looking back!
Yes. A social startup with a plan and revenue strategy, though I'm squeamish about talking super publicly about it. I'm looking for cofounders, if anyone's interested in joining me. I'm more interested in passionate, driven, generally super smart people than any particular skillset. Let me know if you're interested and let's talk offline. (:
We're working on a flash-sales site with a focus for launching new products (rather than selling overstock of old products). We want to give small merchants and designers a captive audience to get those first early adopters. We currently have a landing page at http://www.Trisse.com
yeah, no point in me stopping when the product is 80% built already (of course the last 20% is the toughest). i applied with a social photo search app... it's like greplin for photos and videos. if you want an invite to the beta, sign up at http://www.pilvy.com/
I wonder if YC's size is working against it. It can't invest in 2 startups that do the same or similar things? And in this case you're only giving them free insights. This is why I am critical of YC: no official list of their investees to see if they'll be a conflict of interest. Why not? What other VC websites don't list their portfolio companies? I shouldn't say it's a scam.
Can't comment on the thread.. bit too much like messageparty?
Think being a participant of this forum will help? If the team happens to remember you , but it won't hinder you if you're not. HN is YC's API, plugin, hope for everything, prepare for nothing.
Many rejections later, but still amped and loving it. They may have already picked a social commerce startup last intake, but they'll wish they took this one instead ;)
There's simply nothing else to do but go forwards.
I think that a good route to go if you get rejected is use this time between now and winter 12 yc batch to charge forwards - it demonstrates fabulous determination and tenacity in the face of rejection.
faceless.com/qa/, it's a website based on real-time infotainment over local communities; im a comm/web design major and i really love the idea of local; why not make it positive and incentize users to provide local information that pertains to them; most social networks are based on who you know, this is based on community-verified users you don't already know. i really wanted a chance to share with yc =/ i thought it was a great idea and i have a great team!
We're building a next-generation, distributed social network which gives users control over their data, and helps their social lives in the real world instead of online. Oh yeah, and we already have over 70k active users who downloaded our app in the last 2 months. So I am curious why YC didn't even want to interview us, but then again, their rejection letter doesn't leave many clues :)
Your spiel here is very motivating, motivating enough to make me click your link.
However, your website doesn't represent this at all. Your front page leaves me wondering "What do they do." None of the "apps" you have give me any indication of being the "Next generation social network."
I'm left confused as to what you do, or why I would sign up.
Wow! Very interesting. You'll have a kick butt team and two successful apps (Groups and Calender) that I know people use all the time. It would be interesting to see how the selection process works.
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Available here if anyone wants to try it out. http://nets.neosavvy.com:8080/nets/expense/
Anyone who wants to be a beta tester or get some help using it drop me an email [email protected]
http://blog.neosavvy.com/wordpress/?p=254
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Whether you get funded does not only depend on the ingenuity of your idea but a match between you and the funder.
You should continue working because you believe in your idea (to some extent but over-believing is unhealthy) and simply because what else would you do with your spare time =)
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What are you building?
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It's simple bookkeeping software with an elegant interface that surpasses Mint.com and a focus on mobile access and digitizing receipts.
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lal.com got rejected: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2422799
Can't comment on the thread.. bit too much like messageparty?
Think being a participant of this forum will help? If the team happens to remember you , but it won't hinder you if you're not. HN is YC's API, plugin, hope for everything, prepare for nothing.
I think I'll go on American Idol now.
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http://qbix.com
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However, your website doesn't represent this at all. Your front page leaves me wondering "What do they do." None of the "apps" you have give me any indication of being the "Next generation social network."
I'm left confused as to what you do, or why I would sign up.
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