Re:Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In
by andreygrehov on Monday August 20, 2018 @08:12PM
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Sorry about that. I had a different experience. First rejected and then accepted. Seems like one of the boolean flags was messed up.
Re:Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In
by smartplaya87 on Monday August 20, 2018 @09:15PM
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Same here. I was rejected then accepted
Re:Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In
by embalam on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @07:56AM
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Same here. read the rejection letter and went straight to bed and woke up to the acceptance email. I'm sure the initial 4k accepted all had the "reject" email.
Re:Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In
by aliakhtar on Monday August 20, 2018 @09:20PM
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Can you share your idea / stage?
Re:Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In
by andreygrehov on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:00PM
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Fintech industry, we're in the development stage.
Felt like shit.
You don't need a "startup school" or a YC acceptance to be successful.
This application allowed me to type like 45 words about my company, and that was it. I imagine they had thousands of applicants.
Once a week with an advisor that's working with 25 other companies? Startup School definitely won't be the thing that moves the needle for your project.
Pessimistically, I see this more as a feeder for YC. This "software glitch" is somewhat telling of the care they are putting into this. In other words, "It's a numbers game".
Keep putting in work. We don't need $120K for 7% in funding for "connections" to get our products off the ground anymore. We don't need this. We can bootstrap.