Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding

Re:Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding by blader on Monday July 02, 2007 @09:34PM (#32167)

This is just our experience interviewing last season. We applied with two ideas, both with prototypes. The discussion was pretty much exclusively about the idea - how new it is, how easy it is, how interesting it is, whether or not it's porn/music related (either category is probably not a good idea btw).

We had a good response to both our prototypes, but ultimately we were told our idea didn't seem different enough. The impression I got from our interview was that the idea is actually pretty important.

It kind of makes sense, since you're competing against other amazing hackers with good ideas. It doesn't matter as much if you're good -they all were-, you really do need a great idea to go with your team.

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Re:Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding by sethjohn on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @12:52PM (#32315)

Just because they spent the whole time asking you about your idea doesn't neccessarily mean they were mostly interested in your idea...getting someone to talk about their prototype is probably a much better way to guage who they are and how they think than asking "Who are you?, and how do you think?"

Of course I wasn't there, so I don't really know what happened.

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Re:Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding by blader on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @08:04PM (#32389)

That's a solid point - the above was just my subjective impression.

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Re:Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding by steve on Friday July 06, 2007 @09:55AM (#32753)

"talk about their prototype"

you do realize that this really just means talking about the idea, right?

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