10Stories was rejected 3 times in the last year. We ended up joining TrackMaven about a month ago and are building our product with them. Strictly speaking, 10

10Stories was rejected 3 times in the last year. We ended up joining TrackMaven about a month ago and are building our product with them. Strictly speaking, 10Stories isn't a going concern, but TrackMaven Attribution certainly is. We didn't go forward on the acquisition because we ran out of money. Quite the opposite: we had seen enough traction that the acquisition offer from TrackMaven effectively got us through accelerator + seed round. So we decided to skip the 6 months of dancing around and go right to the part where we are hiring a team and getting early users from the TrackMaven customer base. We're only 1 month in, but this was clearly the faster path to market. Maybe it could have gone as quickly with YC -- who knows?