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Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application.
Just a friendly reminder that you have about a week to fill out your applications for Winter 2009.
http://ycombinator.com/w2009.html
- pxlpshr 18y agoInnovation is recession proof!! Good luck to all those entering their product/business, wish you the best. Now go show wall-street who MAKES the market.
- pclark 18y agoInnovation is most definitely not recession proof, quite the opposite in fact.
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- opal 18y agoNo time for no return.
- thorax 18y agoI don't know what that means, but it might be interesting to note that you're one of the first people to mention this phrase on the internet: http://ri.ms/notime http://ri.ms/notime (Edit: HN didn't like quotes in the URL, so used URL shrinker)
- davidu 18y agoIndeed, it's a decent line.
- kwamenum86 18y agoHa, now that's innovation.
- ntoshev 18y agoTomorrow it will be seven days, but the link will probably stay on the front page and you won't be able to change the title.
- thorax 18y agoGood point! Let's hope they read the "posted X hours ago" part. :)
- Prrometheus 18y agoIs this for the summer session?
- unalone 18y agoNope. Winter 09, which is January. Applying for the summer I'd guess gets sent in around April, if it's exactly 6 months apart. Meaning people like you and me still have time to polish up the plans.
- maxklein 18y agoI've not got the stuff for Y Combinator. I've come to accept my own mediocrity. Just the same way I'm not going to go run a marathon against people who have trained for years. Someday, you guys should try accepting that you are not extraordinarily clever. It's very liberating.
- fallentimes 18y agoI agree that it shouldn't be a "life goal" or something equally ridiculous. But honestly, I applied on a whim. If I hadn't, I most likely would have been laid off from my job last week.
- alex_c 18y agoshrug I don't think I'm extraordinarily clever (not compared to some of my friends from university, or to many of the posters here). I do try to challenge and improve myself. Just like with the marathon, training does make a difference.
- alecco 18y agoDude, don't condition yourself. And the answer is right there in your words, you picked a great analogy. Start now training for next year! Make a plan. Have a progress log. Make a mockup. Make a prototype. - A marathon runner
- fallentimes 18y agoIf I could give four words of advice (I was in YC08), outside the most common advice, it's this: Make your application interesting. Good luck!
- rantfoil 18y agoGood luck to all the new YC applicants. As it mentions on the YC site, you should definitely bounce your applications off YC alums. Email us-- it can only help.
- AlexTheFounder 18y agoDo you mean that Posterous is "a place to post everything. just email us" your YC application? (a joke)
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- siong1987 18y agoTo all the ex-ycombinator, If I have a proper beta product, do I have higher chance to get in?
- rantfoil 18y agoOf course -- a beta is infinitely better than a powerpoint slide. Lots of real users are infinitely better than a beta site. Etc. We're in the business of turning ideas into reality. The farther you get, the better off you are.
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