Ask PG: Applying to YC Winter 2012 as college freshmen

Re:Ask PG: Applying to YC Winter 2012 as college freshmen by pg on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @03:33PM (#3072518)

We're reluctant to fund people who are still in college. Especially freshmen. Even if you can start a startup successfully at that age, it's not necessarily a good thing for you.

Sam had just finished his sophomore year. That's different from having only 1 semester of college.

Startups take over your life. For most people it would be a mistake to jump into one thing so completely before you even know what all the options are.

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Re:Ask PG: Applying to YC Winter 2012 as college freshmen by grizzlylazer on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @06:03PM (#3073117)

We knew this is what was going to be ahead of us when we started building our service.

I totally agree that it would be naive to drop out of college to start a startup, but what is your opinion on dropping out of college to grow one?

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Re:Ask PG: Applying to YC Winter 2012 as college freshmen by pg on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @01:52AM (#3074416)

If it's Facebook, maybe.

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Re:Ask PG: Applying to YC Winter 2012 as college freshmen by OpenAlgorithm on Sunday October 16, 2011 @05:00AM (#3116906)

What about a high school student willing to take the 18 months off to work on their start-up and dependant on success leave school for good.

In Ireland its free high school and college education and if it was a failure its very easy to re-enter the education system.

I know you guys founded Collison, what do you think?

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