Hi Guys.
YC isn't supposed to choose the teams that will be interviewed today? I've finger crossed since weeks now.
Is everyone will receive an email (even the ones that are not choosed) or if you don't get one then you're out of the course?
We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding.
Please don't take it personally. The applications we receive get
better every funding cycle, and since there's a limit on the number
of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot
of genuinely promising groups.
Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know
we make lots of mistakes. It's alarming how often the last group
to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that
we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall
just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing.
We're trying to get better at this, but it's practically certain
that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups.
If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us
about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.
Thanks for sharing. We're anxious to hear the result. Invited or not, I think it's a good experience to force oneself to tell the story of your business and be really honest about it.
Good luck to everybody. You all feel like a classmate to me ;-)
If you trust your idea, you just need to go, you don't need someone to validate your idea.
However YC is definitly an opportunity for any start-up with a good product to have enought attention to get started.
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Are there any past applicants who have know if they do indeed contact groups who are uninvited?