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SUBJECT: Your Y Combinator Application
Thanks for applying to Y Combinator. We're sorry to say that your startup was not selected to interview for the upcoming Y Combinator batch. Please don't take it personally. We carefully reviewed thousands of applications and since there's a limit on the number of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot of promising companies.
Unfortunately we can't give you individual feedback about your application. This page explains why:
https://www.ycombinator.com/whynot/
We hope you reapply for the next batch; in fact, we encourage it. The next batch will run from January—March 2021 and the deadline to apply for it is September 2020. Applying multiple times does not count against you and a surprisingly large number of companies are funded after applying more than once. Over 50% of the startups we accept are repeat applicants.
We also encourage you to check out Y Combinator’s Startup School. It’s a free online course that keeps you focused on improving your startup. Sign up at startupschool.org.
Best of luck,
—YC
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SUBJECT: (Correction) Your Y Combinator Application
We apologize for the mistake on the previous email: the next the batch will run from January—March 2021 and the deadline to apply for it is September 2020. We are sorry for any confusion this may have caused.
—YC
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(1) Top-Level-Comment-Format:
- IDEA: (One sentence)
- VALUE: (who needs what and why)
- ESTIMATES: Time & Resources
- VALIDATION: How will you know success happened? How would you compare it’s success with prior efforts? How would you know to when to failure happens or related efforts should end? (EDIT: Clarification of meaning “validation” — that being the topic of validation is limited to validation of the “value” not validation of anything else, including but not limited to validation of a given implementation technically, roadmap, etc.)
One idea per top-level comment to enable clear understanding of votes.
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(2) Top-Level-Comment-Response-Suggestions:
- FEEDBACK: on idea
- VARIATIONS: of idea
- VOLUNTEER: Planning, Beta, Coding, supporting, financial, maintenance
Suggest limiting each top-level comment to a single topic to enable clear views of voting.
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(3) META-COMMENTS:
Lastly, I will create a top-level comment for meta-comments on the idea of “Ask HN: Ideas to Improve HN“ — which is where all comments about this post should go; all other top-level comments should be “Ideas to Improve HN”.
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DISCLAIMER: Other than having a meaningful understanding of HN/YC, I have no relationship with either. That said, if this makes the home page, I’ll ping the HN mods to insure they’re aware of it.