Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted

Re:Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted by r_singh on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @02:26AM (#17807474)

I personally think that they've rectified this in a smart way by introducing 2 tracks: the advisor track and a normal one (this is just a guess since I received mail saying I've been accepted to the 'advisor track').

So YC is giving forum access to all the companies that applied but advisor access only to a subset of all the companies that applied. Is that correct?

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Re:Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted by enqa on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @07:18AM (#17808625)

I don't know. The fair way to handles this would have been to first honour the original deal. They have already put people through the application process and the were going to reject them if this hadn't happened. Instead of "accepting everyone" they should have rejected the ones original being rejected and then asked them forgiveness and confidence in this additional track. Now they have left a lot of people in the awkward position of doubt if they want to do it but without an easy way to say no.

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Re:Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted by kutanov on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @07:37AM (#17808705)

Yeah, same here. Got the email about accepting our startup to the advisory track. My friend got the email about the normal track.

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Re:Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted by bpicolo on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @08:34AM (#17808966)

The advisor track email was the email they didn't intend to send referenced in this post, isn't it?

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