Just to remind some people: - Damien Katz (creator of CouchDB) was also rejected[1]. He went on and got $2 million from Redpoint Ventures [2] - On this video[

Just to remind some people: - Damien Katz (creator of CouchDB) was also rejected[1]. He went on and got $2 million from Redpoint Ventures [2] - On this video[3], Jessica Livingston interviews Drew. It shows that he was also rejected the first time he tried out YC. - The oscar of rejected but finally accepted: I got into YC after applying six times [4] - Peteris Krumins also got rejected with his browserling idea, got rejected[5], and went on to raise his own seed funding[6]. [1] http://damienkatz.net/2006/11/how_not_to_pitc.html http://damienkatz.net/2006/11/how_not_to_pitc.html [2] http://damienkatz.net/2009/12/relaxed_inc.html http://damienkatz.net/2009/12/relaxed_inc.html [3] http://ycombinator.posterous.com/dropbox-interview-now-online http://ycombinator.posterous.com/dropbox-interview-now-onlin... [4] http://iamwil.posterous.com/i-got-into-yc-after-applying-six-times-heres http://iamwil.posterous.com/i-got-into-yc-after-applying-six... [5] http://www.catonmat.net/blog/launching-browserling/ http://www.catonmat.net/blog/launching-browserling/ [6] http://www.catonmat.net/blog/how-i-raised-money-for-browserling/ http://www.catonmat.net/blog/how-i-raised-money-for-browserl...