Quit job to work on it anyway. Old company has problems (with itself and with me) and I never fitted in to begin with. Have lots of stock from that stint, and

Quit job to work on it anyway. Old company has problems (with itself and with me) and I never fitted in to begin with. Have lots of stock from that stint, and good friends to bank on. Cobbling together prototype, teaching myself the NLP and plan on combining it with some techniques I learned in vision research. Figure that I can better pitch it to my risk-averse fwenz once I can wow them with something... I don't understand why everyone sees a rejection or acceptance to YCombinator or TechStars as such a big deal. It's like college admissions. They are only two shops, with fairly limited resources, and limited means of assessing candidates. If you didn't make it, and you think that your idea really has some serious long-term stock, then keep at it.