happyartist22 | 11 years ago | on: Tell HN: YC Summer 2015 rejections (and presumably invitations) have been sent
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happyartist22 | 11 years ago | on: Tell HN: YC Summer 2015 rejections (and presumably invitations) have been sent
happyartist22 | 11 years ago | on: Tell HN: YC Summer 2015 rejections (and presumably invitations) have been sent
happyartist22 | 11 years ago | on: Tell HN: YC Summer 2015 rejections (and presumably invitations) have been sent
Have you looked for investment anywhere else?
happyartist22 | 11 years ago | on: Tell HN: YC Summer 2015 rejections (and presumably invitations) have been sent
Cheer up, and celebrate your hard work. God has a special plan for you. In the morning its back to work:)
You may not be partnering with Y!Combinator, but you are walking away with a 7% stake in your company that gives you 100% control over your own destiny, and potentially millions, or even billions of dollars in wealth you would of given away had you been selected. Who am I kidding, we all wanted the support of Y!Combinator.
The good people of Y!Combinator are some of the of the best in Silicon Valley. I personally would love to have a board that could show my team the ropes. Lets face it. Hackers are pros at learning the ropes through trial and error. Persistence will get us through.
I fantasized about a little more rest than my current environment of working a full time job that pays the bills, and another full time job developing new technology that doesn't yet pay any bills. Having to focus on multiple things at once, instead of focusing on one with pinpoint accuracy is painful. You do what you gotta do, and you will get there.
Our company has built a foundation for Strong AI, and an autonomous robotic framework that connects Robotics to third party AI. Google has spent over a billion dollars the last couple years buying companies in these two areas, and we are going to beat them connecting AI to Robotics by months, and we have been developing our technology for 3 years. AI, and Robotics were Y!Combinator's top 2 desired business categories, and we didn't even get an interview.
In summary don't stop, but do look for alternative options to getting to your next milestone in regards to funding. Most of the sites I've looked at in rejected Y!Combinator posts, I would of been interested in if I were an investor. I think each of you is onto something (Except the dude who submitted a swinger ad. He did get a good chuckle out of me though:).