I'm not a YC applicant. Part of this was because Paul Graham made it pretty clear that he believes that having a family is at odds with a startup: http://www.

I'm not a YC applicant. Part of this was because Paul Graham made it pretty clear that he believes that having a family is at odds with a startup: http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html The charitable part of me wants to believe the "I'm not willing to take responsibility..." angle, but it treads awfully close to discrimination. I assumed that this would work against us to the point where it wasn't worth applying. The same way that single founder teams are canned almost before they are read. Note that it doesn't actually matter if this is the case. My impression based on public information led me to this conclusion and YC lost out on a great team and idea. I'm sure I'm not alone. I'm putting my money where my mouth is: the rest of my cofounders are also all married. Most of us have kids. We're doing just fine, thanks: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1139914.htm http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1139914.htm http://blog.luckycal.com/?p=15 http://blog.luckycal.com/?p=15 http://gigaom.com/2008/08/25/mobilize-launchpad-contestants-announced http://gigaom.com/2008/08/25/mobilize-launchpad-contestants-...