Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

Re:Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream by erichocean on Sunday March 02, 2014 @12:32AM (#7327853)

My wife applied and I was surprised by the unseriousness of the application process.

If you've gone through the online YC application process, imagine you dumbed that down for a 10 year old who only had 10 minutes to complete it and only had to answer one question, along the lines of "Why is America the best country on Earth?"[0]

Here's the rejection email my wife got for those that are curious:

Thank you for applying to the Female Founders Conference. Unfortunately we couldn't accept you this year. There was such a large number of applications that we had to turn away hundreds of people we would otherwise have accepted.

We will be streaming the event live on our website, and are looking into options for even larger venues in the future. We really hope you will apply again.

Best,

Y Combinator Team

http://femalefoundersconference.org

[0] Bonus points for anyone who gets that reference. :)

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Re:Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream by natasham25 on Sunday March 02, 2014 @12:55AM (#7327903)

It was a very similar application to the Startup School application.

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Re:Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream by erichocean on Sunday March 02, 2014 @12:58AM (#7327913)

Okay, good to know.

In all seriousness, if that's the application, both the Startup School and the Female Founders Conference should just do a randomized allocation.

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Re:Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream by argumentum on Sunday March 02, 2014 @12:47AM (#7327886)

Occam's razor suggests they simply got a lot more applications than they anticipated.

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Re:Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream by facepalm on Monday March 03, 2014 @11:22AM (#7334582)

I suppose less is at stake when admitting someone to a conference compared to admitting someone to YC. Therefore it makes sense to have simpler questions.

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Re:Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream by tbfrench on Sunday March 02, 2014 @01:24AM (#7327978)

[0] excellent quote from an excellent movie.

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Re:Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream by br78 on Sunday March 02, 2014 @11:22PM (#7332036)

I thought it was from Newsroom but someone else said "film"

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Re:Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream by erichocean on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @12:48PM (#7386718)

It's from Thank You for Smoking.

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