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You should be building your software. No reason to wait on the answer from YC; if it was good enough to try to get them to invest in it, it should be good enoug
by icey 17y ago
You should be building your software. No reason to wait on the answer from YC; if it was good enough to try to get them to invest in it, it should be good enough for you to keep building with or without them.
- jacquesm 17y agoAbsolutely. No matter what you do while you're out there scouting for funding and applying to places like YC, your work on your product is top priority. Hope for the best, plan for the worst, even if you don't get funding you might find yourself with a winner, and your chances of finding funding go up with every hour you put in to your product. Nothing better than being able to show your product in use by actual customers and a nice start of a growth curve. It also gives you some real world numbers that you can plug in to your business plan.
- python123 17y agoLots of YC applicants these days view YC as the starting step. If they get in, they will "do a startup". If they don't, they won't. They are really more in love with the idea of being part of the startup community than the idea of actually building a company. They're outsiders peering into the walls of Silicon Valley and thinking there's some magical formula for success waiting there for them. Of course, they won't tell YC this.
- shanked 17y agoI took a break for a week after spending the previous 3 weeks focusing on the prototype in most of my free time. This past weekend I started on the prototype again. If not accepted in S10, I hope to re-apply for W10 with a deployed beta as my 'prototype'.
- grosales 17y agoI worked with shanked on the prototype. But mostly it was all his work. We picked up again this week.