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Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified?
Please advise when YC selectee's will be notified. Or, if they already have.....meaning those of us who haven't heard are out. Thanks, PG.
- Major_Grooves 18y agoPatience grasshopper. If they've not notified us yet then they are probably too busy to come on here and tell us when they will notify us. It won't be long now...
- tokenadult 18y agoFrom the HN guidelines: "Please don't use News.YC to ask YC questions. If you have a question, send it to info@ycombinator.com." Enjoy your wait for the news.
- unalone 18y agoThere's nothing wrong with having a thread here for congrats and consolation. Right?
- steveplace 18y agoThere sure isn't. But that isn't this thread.
- vaksel 18y agobased on your profile I wouldn't hold my breath...pg tends to back teams that already have hackers.
- unalone 18y agoChrist, man, you're one of the most active users here, but you're always so unpleasant. Yeah, most of us will be rejected. No reason to be a jerk about it.
- vaksel 18y agoThere is being a jerk, and then there is being realistic. Yes most people will get rejected, but most of them fit your basic mold. I dunno about you, but I haven't heard of pg backing a single non-techie founder...have you?
- unalone 18y agoI have no clue, to be honest. I don't know half of the YC companies that exist. Realistic is fine, but he's not saying "Do you think I have a chance?", he's saying "When will we hear back?" It's rude to answer a question that hasn't been asked.
- pg 18y agoWe did once fund a pair of founders neither of whom were hackers. One of them had majored in physics in college though.
- ryanwaggoner 18y agoResults?
- breck 18y agoYou can't make good predictions based on a HackerNews profile, but let's pretend... >>I am a 36 year old Rochester, NY based entreprenuer. At 25 I founded and bootstrapped a sales & marketing company to $9M in sales, 50 employees and >$2M in personal income. If all we knew about this person was that: 1) They built a ~$10M company and earned more than $2M personally 2) They weren't a hacker versus: 1) Some hacker I would put bet person 1 would be a better investment.
- ryanwaggoner 18y agoSince we're talking about jdileo's profile, here's a question: why apply for something like YC? Yeah, I totally get that YC isn't about the cash. But still, couldn't you buy way more connections and press than the YC companies get? Alternatively, you could take like $500k to Demo Day and sink $100k each into five of the YC companies as an angel. I just don't get why someone who had built that big of a company at 25 would go for YC. What am I missing?
- jdileo 18y agoBeing that you're addressing this question to me, thought I would answer. YC's value extends FAR beyond the minimal dollar amount it gives each startup. If you really don't get that, you simply haven't been paying attention. SAD.
- ryanwaggoner 18y agoWhoa, dude...relax. I know you're on edge waiting for the results, but damn :) If you read my comment above, you'll see where I said: Yeah, I totally get that YC isn't about the cash. My point was that YC is worth far more than the cash it invests. But I still don't get why someone who had built a company worth millions and taken millions out of it would go back to the YC model. YC has always struck me as being more for single college-aged founders with no track record than for older, more established entrepreneurs with plenty of money to fund their future startups.
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- zhyder 18y agojdileo, your profile actually looks interesting, and I'm sure some of us hackers would want to talk to you. Please add your email address to your profile; note that the email field itself is not visible to others.
- jdileo 18y agowill do.
- pg 18y agoProbably before 9 pm pacific time.
- suhail 18y ago"10. We'll review applications and get back to you on the evening of 6 April."
- Eliezer 18y agoBob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe: http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
- LWCARAB 18y agoAll the best to everyone who applied, lets just hope we see some amazing new products grow from whoever is selected.
- rokhayakebe 18y agoCheck your Google Analytics.That should be a great start. If you do not see any traffic from California, you know you (EDIT) are not selected . If you do, then look deeper and figure out the referral website etc...
- unalone 18y agoWow, putting up Google Analytics would have been a great idea. Our preview was left utterly unmonitored. Oh, well. Only a few hours to go.
- khangtoh 18y agoThere wasn't any hits with our analytics, since JS can be disabled. Look at your apache log instead, then find out the location using reverse IP.
- jamesgpearce 18y agoIf you didn't think to monitor your traffic, then QED. Business 101: instrumentation.
- unalone 18y agoI made a preview page that I handed out to people personally to maintain secrecy. Nearly nobody saw it, and nobody saw it without my handing out the link. I didn't think it was worth monitoring something as private as that.
- unalone 18y agoI made a preview page that I handed out to people personally to maintain secrecy. Nearly nobody saw it, and nobody saw it without my handing out the link. I didn't think it was worth monitoring something as private as that.
- rms 18y agoThey don't always look at demos. I'm guessing they watched every video though.
- alain94040 18y agoGood luck to you all, I know how tough the last hours are when you are waiting for a life changing event (especially when the odds are so bad - not because you are not good enough, but because the number of seats is limited). I wish there was a way to demultiply the number of projects accepted by YC. You'd think that with all the technology, someone would have found a solution! Oh well, that reminds me, that's what I applied to YC about. Does anyone see a funny recursive loop in my being rejected? If I had been successful, there would have been many more spaces, so I would have been much more likely to be accepted... and vice versa :-)
- redleader 18y agoEven if you don't get selected, it doesn't mean that your idea has no merit. Take that bulletball guy for example.
- randomwalker 18y agoWe just got notified :-) http://watchuwant.tv/ http://watchuwant.tv/ http://watchuwant.wordpress.com/ http://watchuwant.wordpress.com/ (me, abossy, dmolnar) Please help us get better, give us comments, check out the blog. Good luck, everyone!
- geuis 18y agoAh well, got rejected.