Ask HN: Y Combinator summer pre selection

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2419787

by gumbo • 15 years ago

4 10 15 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

Hi Guys. YC isn't supposed to choose the teams that will be interviewed today? I've finger crossed since weeks now. Is everyone will receive an email (even the ones that are not choosed) or if you don't get one then you're out of the course?

devan• 15 years ago

Hey, I think everyone gets emailed.

busterc2• 15 years ago

It would be nice to know if you aren't accepted, with an official message. I've been thinking, based on an FAQ, that they only contact invitees.

Are there any past applicants who have know if they do indeed contact groups who are uninvited?

unignorant• 15 years ago

They do. Here is last year's email:

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We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding. Please don't take it personally. The applications we receive get better every funding cycle, and since there's a limit on the number of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot of genuinely promising groups.

Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know we make lots of mistakes. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing.

http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html

We're trying to get better at this, but it's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.

Y Combinator Staff

busterc2• 15 years ago

Thanks for sharing, this will ease some of my friends anxieties today.

RRiccio• 15 years ago

Pretty cool, I was wondering if they answered us or not.

triiiiista• 15 years ago

Thanks for sharing. We're anxious to hear the result. Invited or not, I think it's a good experience to force oneself to tell the story of your business and be really honest about it.

Good luck to everybody. You all feel like a classmate to me ;-)

suprasanna• 15 years ago

Yep, it is today. They'll most likely send everyone an email just so everyone gets a decision.

Interesting to think that the decisions have already been made, we're just waiting on that information.

Regardless, good luck today!

gumbo• 15 years ago

Finger crossed. Nevertheless, as they said: no one should take it personnaly and it make me think of something i've read a few days ago on HN : "Stop Panhandling your Ideas": http://bennesvig.com/post/4363890591/stop-panhandling-your-i...

If you trust your idea, you just need to go, you don't need someone to validate your idea. However YC is definitly an opportunity for any start-up with a good product to have enought attention to get started.

Again finger crossed.

watchpickwin2• 15 years ago

nice post! there is always angellist which connected me to a minnedemo mtg next week with an Angel.. St. Cloud MN 4/12, as a backup plan!

watchpickwin2• 15 years ago

0 points! hey Minnebar at Best Buy Corp office May 2010 was great!, Free classes and Free pizza! Minnedemo will be even better. Minnedemo deserves more than 0 points mods! come on!

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