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Best of luck to all the applicants and to you PG on reading them! =)

• jwilliams 18y ago
  Indeed -- having applied I've got to say there is benefit in even just applying. So well done even if you got that far. This is even aside from the individual questions on the application (which are good questions to ask none-the-less). Going through the process lets you look at your idea and your proposition in a bit more of a structured way. Our ideas didn't change, but certainly our focus and outlook did.
  • redrobot5050 18y ago
    Also, one thing that's interesting about ycombinator's application, compared to a competitor such as alphalab.org is how much their application focuses on you, the founder, and your relationship to other founders. The advice my friend Jeremy has given me, through his own start up venture, is that you really have to be solid on the founders. It certainly let us 'narrow our focus' in terms of who we'd want to be working with for our start up.