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A comment on Ask HN: YC rejected twice. Why? How can we improve without knowing the reason?.

Re:Ask HN: YC rejected twice. Why? How can we improve withou... by andrewmcwatters on Monday April 24, 2017 @03:55PM (#14187571)
> So why don’t we tell people why we didn’t invite them to interview? Because, paradoxical as it sounds, there often is no reason. The median application is usually pretty good. The reason it gets rejected is not that it seems particularly bad, but that there are a sufficient number of others that seem particularly good.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/whynot/

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Re:Ask HN: YC rejected twice. Why? How can we improve withou... by nisthana on Monday April 24, 2017 @04:25PM (#14187947)
Well thats stock statement written by a lawyer. YC should spend time letting founders know where they failed, and what can they do to improve. We spent days to write the perfect application, why cant they spend few minutes for the feedback? StartX does it. They called me for a 15 min feedback and told me where I was wrong. I loved it because I came to know my blindspots.
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