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   by siilime 9y ago

   We had specific requirements that would have meant we would have spent a significant amount of time re-engineering parts of any open source option to make it fit to the insurance market, essentially taking longer than building our own, and
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   by siilime 9y ago

   I'm the author. Don't underestimate the willingness to support a friend's project. Over the few days since I was asked, I went back and forth between declining and accepting. I (incorrectly) assumed we'd be rejected from
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   by siilime 9y ago

   Not at all common. Few startups typically get accepted into the program if they're in that much of a pre-development state. Unfortunately YC and Silicon Valley is still rife with buzzwords over content. Many of the YC alumni parties ar
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   by siilime 9y ago

   Part 3 has a TL;DR, and part 2 has some of the more crucial elements outlining where the failures were. Altogether it aligns with advice typically given to startups looking to apply to YC, but as a post-YC story, it perhaps has more resonan