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My wife applied and I was surprised by the unseriousness of the application process. If you've gone through the online YC application process, imagine you dumb
by erichocean 13y ago
My wife applied and I was surprised by the unseriousness of the application process.
If you've gone through the online YC application process, imagine you dumbed that down for a 10 year old who only had 10 minutes to complete it and only had to answer one question, along the lines of "Why is America the best country on Earth?"[0]
Here's the rejection email my wife got for those that are curious:
Thank you for applying to the Female Founders Conference. Unfortunately we couldn't accept you this year. There was such a large number of applications that we had to turn away hundreds of people we would otherwise have accepted.
We will be streaming the event live on our website, and are looking into options for even larger venues in the future. We really hope you will apply again.
Best,
Y Combinator Team
http://femalefoundersconference.org http://femalefoundersconference.org
[0] Bonus points for anyone who gets that reference. :)
- argumentum 13y agoOccam's razor suggests they simply got a lot more applications than they anticipated.
- natasham25 13y agoIt was a very similar application to the Startup School application.
- erichocean 13y agoOkay, good to know. In all seriousness, if that's the application, both the Startup School and the Female Founders Conference should just do a randomized allocation.
- tbfrench 13y ago[0] excellent quote from an excellent movie.
- br78 13y agoI thought it was from Newsroom but someone else said "film"
- erichocean 13y agoIt's from Thank You for Smoking.
- facepalm 13y agoI suppose less is at stake when admitting someone to a conference compared to admitting someone to YC. Therefore it makes sense to have simpler questions.