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If you have a good idea that you are committed to, why should the statistics matter? If someone says "gee, I'm 30, i shouldn't apply," that seems pretty weak of
by dcurtis 19y ago
If you have a good idea that you are committed to, why should the statistics matter? If someone says "gee, I'm 30, i shouldn't apply," that seems pretty weak of them.
Although, I think the statistics would be very interesting to read over.
- cperciva 19y agoIf you have a good idea that you are committed to, why should the statistics matter? Because most good ideas which people are committed to aren't "get accepted into YC". Why shouldn't someone say "I'm not likely to get accepted into YC, so I'll spend my time working on my good idea instead of filling out the YC application form"?
- kingnothing 19y agoAs it is, you're not likely to get accepted, regardless of age and education statistics, due to the sheer volume of applications versus spots available.
- eusman 19y ago"spots available" they don't have a standard spots available number.
- kingnothing 19y agoNo, they don't, but there are orders of magnitude more applications submitted than teams accepted.
- dcurtis 19y agoI seem to remember paul saying something like "we accept all the good enough ideas."
- pg 19y agoWe try to make the questions on the YC application form sufficiently useful that it would be worthwhile spending the time to fill it out even if you never submitted it.