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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by rantfoil on Thursday October 09, 2008 @01:39PM (#328050)
Good luck to all the new YC applicants. As it mentions on the YC site, you should definitely bounce your applications off YC alums. Email us-- it can only help.
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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by AlexTheFounder on Thursday October 09, 2008 @03:27PM (#328166)
Do you mean that Posterous is "a place to post everything. just email us" your YC application? (a joke)
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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by fallentimes on Thursday October 09, 2008 @12:48PM (#327992)
If I could give four words of advice (I was in YC08), outside the most common advice, it's this:

Make your application interesting.

Good luck!

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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by pxlpshr on Thursday October 09, 2008 @10:41AM (#327855)
Innovation is recession proof!!

Good luck to all those entering their product/business, wish you the best. Now go show wall-street who MAKES the market.

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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by pclark on Friday October 10, 2008 @08:57AM (#328771)
Innovation is most definitely not recession proof, quite the opposite in fact.
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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by ntoshev on Thursday October 09, 2008 @11:35AM (#327906)
Tomorrow it will be seven days, but the link will probably stay on the front page and you won't be able to change the title.
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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by thorax on Thursday October 09, 2008 @12:00PM (#327934)
Good point! Let's hope they read the "posted X hours ago" part. :)
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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by maxklein on Thursday October 09, 2008 @12:47PM (#327991)
I've not got the stuff for Y Combinator. I've come to accept my own mediocrity. Just the same way I'm not going to go run a marathon against people who have trained for years.

Someday, you guys should try accepting that you are not extraordinarily clever. It's very liberating.

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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by fallentimes on Thursday October 09, 2008 @01:07PM (#328021)
I agree that it shouldn't be a "life goal" or something equally ridiculous. But honestly, I applied on a whim. If I hadn't, I most likely would have been laid off from my job last week.
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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by alex_c on Thursday October 09, 2008 @02:27PM (#328097)
shrug

I don't think I'm extraordinarily clever (not compared to some of my friends from university, or to many of the posters here).

I do try to challenge and improve myself. Just like with the marathon, training does make a difference.

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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by alecco on Monday October 13, 2008 @07:17PM (#331701)
Dude, don't condition yourself. And the answer is right there in your words, you picked a great analogy. Start now training for next year! Make a plan. Have a progress log. Make a mockup. Make a prototype.

- A marathon runner

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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by siong1987 on Thursday October 09, 2008 @04:23PM (#328219)
To all the ex-ycombinator,

If I have a proper beta product, do I have higher chance to get in?

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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by rantfoil on Thursday October 09, 2008 @06:20PM (#328334)
Of course -- a beta is infinitely better than a powerpoint slide. Lots of real users are infinitely better than a beta site. Etc.

We're in the business of turning ideas into reality. The farther you get, the better off you are.

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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by opal on Thursday October 09, 2008 @11:06AM (#327880)
No time for no return.
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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by thorax on Thursday October 09, 2008 @11:26AM (#327900)
I don't know what that means, but it might be interesting to note that you're one of the first people to mention this phrase on the internet: http://ri.ms/notime

(Edit: HN didn't like quotes in the URL, so used URL shrinker)

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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by davidu on Thursday October 09, 2008 @02:07PM (#328079)
Indeed, it's a decent line.
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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by kwamenum86 on Thursday October 09, 2008 @10:50PM (#328520)
Ha, now that's innovation.
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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by Prrometheus on Thursday October 09, 2008 @11:35AM (#327907)
Is this for the summer session?
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Re:Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application. by unalone on Thursday October 09, 2008 @02:02PM (#328075)
Nope. Winter 09, which is January.

Applying for the summer I'd guess gets sent in around April, if it's exactly 6 months apart. Meaning people like you and me still have time to polish up the plans.

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