Advice For Your YC Application

Re:Advice For Your YC Application by kunle on Monday October 21, 2013 @04:17PM (#6587901)

> 3. You will pursue this even without getting an investment"

Makes all the difference in the world. If you're doing a startup contingent on getting into YC, its worth re-thinking. YC helps, but startups are still hard regardless.

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Re:Advice For Your YC Application by praxeologist on Monday October 21, 2013 @04:36PM (#6588009)

I forgot about #3, so now I feel much better about not applying this time around. I'm still weak on #2 with two "maybes" which was just one of several reasons I don't think it would have worked anyhow.

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Re:Advice For Your YC Application by kunle on Monday October 21, 2013 @05:19PM (#6588279)

Makes sense. Knowing those reasons you don't think it will work and attacking those specifically is actually a really good way to debug. Dave Friedberg (Founder of Climate Corporation) actually has a really good approach to this that he talks about here (3 minute video): http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2796

He basically says to lay out the unknowns, and systematically work towards making them knowns. Good luck!

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