A month at Y Combinator: What it’s like after you’ve been accepted

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2014/07/11/month-y-combinator-like-youve-accepted/

by TheMakeA • 12 years ago

42 9 12 years ago

TheMakeA• 12 years ago

   The email was so short, but it instantly changed all that we were about to do with our company in the following months.

Is YC sending emails instead of phone calls for acceptances now?

katm• 12 years ago

We still make phone calls.

skrebbel• 12 years ago

Even though it's on ycombinator.com and not wired, it's still blogspam. This is the real article:

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2014/07/11/month-y-combin...

dang• 12 years ago

Thanks. We changed the url.

sandaru1• 12 years ago

What's the typical visa type of foreign entrepreneurs who gets accepted into YC? The startup visa is not ready yet, right?

l_perrin• 12 years ago

We have B1/B2 visa. They allow you to stay in the US for 6 months and only take a few days to obtain. YC gave us a formal letter which made everything very simple.

tomerico• 12 years ago

That's very helpful. What happens after the six months (assuming the company is successful)

ingravidesa• 12 years ago

Well that's useful for all of us who are considering submitting an application. Thank you for sharing your experience. Number #6 is universal and so true, the sooner you accept it, the better.

btown• 12 years ago

One group session every other week, with six other companies to share what we’ve accomplished and what we’re struggling with amongst people that are living exactly the same thing.

It's interesting to hear about the group sessions. In the incubator my company is participating in, our weekly group sessions are EXTREMELY structured - we're presenting our progress to a similar number of other companies, but we're required by the incubator organizers to put together very specific (and extensive) slide decks answering very specific questions (which, IMHO, don't make sense for every company to spend time preparing every week given that all our companies are in different stages). Are the YC group sessions similarly structured, or are they more like lightly-or-not-at-all-moderated roundtable discussions/support groups among friends?

A month at Y Combinator: What it’s like after you’ve been accepted

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