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A comment on Our Experience of the Inaugural Y Combinator Fellowship.

Re:Our Experience of the Inaugural Y Combinator Fellowship by neuromancer2701 on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @08:50AM (#11336113)
I wish there was a job and kids version of the Fellowship. Make it 12-16 weeks, and allow founders to keep their day jobs. I am in Georgia Tech OMSCS right now and people put 30-40 hours a week into that and keep their day job.

It would be very encouraging to be able to test out one of my ideas for a semester but the work load these guys talk about in the article is pretty crazy. Is the expectation of the Fellowship that the founders are putting in 12+ hour days for 8 straight weeks?

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Re:Our Experience of the Inaugural Y Combinator Fellowship by jakubbalada on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @10:17AM (#11336744)
At least in our batch we felt we should really only focus on our product. That's why we've got the grant - to be able to work on our startup full-time.
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