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Ask YC: Missed Opportunites at YC

8 points by lakeeffect 18y ago

Everyone knows that Reddit was a really successful Y Combinator Start Up. Does anyone know of any companies that are really successful that applied, but were not accepted to Y Combinator? It seems every VC has one, since Y Combinator makes its decisions before the product is built, one would imagine their job would be tougher. Any insight?

lakeeffect 18y ago
What about other places such as TechCrunch 40?
- rms 18y ago
  http://sleep.fm/ http://sleep.fm/
  - aneesh 18y ago
    I love the idea, but the site looks horrible in IE7 (lets not get into the reasons I'm using IE7 right now ...)
    - willarson 18y ago
      With all due respect to their work, I don't think that its an IE7 problem.
pg 18y ago
I don't know of any so far. There are bound to be eventually, though.
mattmaroon 18y ago
Google applied to Y Combinator but was rejected.
aneesh 18y ago
Well, unless you're hotmail or YouTube, it takes more than 2-3 years to be "really successful". YC has only been around for something like 3 years. Give it some time.