Now that we know which Y combinator members were accepted into the Y combinator program, LightSpeed, and TechStars. Let's see who got into Highland. Anyone get the interview call this week yet?

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What would you do? Acceptance decision by April 16th to Techstars or wait for YComb decision and risk losing the given opportunity? 19 years ago

Reading the forum, I noticed a lot of you are applying to Techstars and Y. If you were accepted to Techstars, you will have to give an acceptance decision by April 16th. However, lets say you were given an interview to Y but acceptance is not offered until April 29th. So what would you do?

Take a leap of faith and wait for Y, knowing that you just given up a sure opportunity to be mentored or go for Techstars?

Of course both are great programs

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Y Combinator only considers IVY League applicants? 19 years ago

I read an old RWW 2006 article that said if you're not from an ivy league school, than Y Combinator doesn't consider you. Anyone know if this is true?

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Would Y Combinator frown upon your team if your members developed side projects for fun/hobby? Would it be considered lack of focus? 19 years ago

My team members enjoy creating things for the hell of it because it's fun. The application asked if we had built anything else. A lot of the things we are building is almost entering beta stage. I would say maybe 3 of the projects. We built it because it was fun to build.

We're concerned that Y combinator may think that we lack focused if we shared the projects on our applications. Should we or shouldn't we list the other projects we developed for fun?

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