Re:Paul Graham is too arrogant
by andreyf on Tuesday May 15, 2007 @11:57PM
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Personally, I would have very much appreciated a one or two-sentence personalized response to my rejected application. It can't be that hard to build that into the system, and although I have a decent guess as to why you didn't choose to fund my partner and I, a boilerplate rejection seemed kind of mean (even thought it was a very humble boilerplate rejection)...
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Although I didn't apply, my guess is that this feedback would help tremendously. If implemented correctly, it might not even take much time.
The majority of applications were probably rejected for the same few reasons: talent, quality of app, quality of demo, hard to monetize, lack potential market, etc. Only in a minority of cases would YC have to actually write a sentence explaining why the app was rejected.