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@wynelle Not just YC - they only put in $500k. The other nearly $7M is from Sequoia, SOMA cap, and some other big name angels. Wild.

@preston1982 If you want to start a startup, the best experience you can get is from joining one. YC loves founders who have startup experience - more so than a FAANG co. You actually get the chance to build something meaningful, and learn a lot, fast. At the former you have more impact and...

@truefiction1 Bummer, they could have just turned you down directly. For b2b sales, especially early on, a lot of the work is in qualifying inbound leads and onboarding the right customers first - i.e. the ones that are willing to pay the most / use it the most / less likely to churn. I’d...

@greekorthodox123456 yeah, gee, I can’t see why this kind of post shouldn’t be allowed here on the YC sub.

@sezna I assume you can but that’s definitely gonna be a yellow flag - founders not committed to a single idea

@greekorthodox123456 weird. why the anonymity then? say it with your chest my boy

@aliciaew I don’t know about that - while most of the time they do fall into these categories there are always exceptions. It’s the reality that most smart and ambitious people go to university (as much as we dislike the education system) And whenever there are those exceptions you guys come on...

@grlpower Fair enough! As a founder who’s been there before I just find it incredibly detracting to read people criticizing startups and founders who’ve only just begun their journey. Let them build and criticize them in a few years, not when they’re just preparing to get out the gate.

@micky123 Only those who get in… can launch. Or are you implying that the current batch is only people who meet the above criteria? Not sure why you would assume that if you don’t have any data - whereas you can see the body of data from all the founders who have been accepted in the founder...

@ams59 I mean the founder directory is public — feel free to look around yourself. Or you can continue to come up with reasons to disqualify yourself. Shrug. Plenty of responses that contradict it in the tweet here:

@grlpower Yes that’s what I’m saying. Growth fund wasn’t a failure lmao - they made them money. They actually closed the $1B second continuity fund they went out to raise, but the new leadership wanted to focus on early stage fully, so now that billy is set aside to support the existing...

@grlpower Highly doubt all of your claims. I went through YC, used to work at YC, and still hang out with the GPs pretty often. The data definitely says otherwise. LPs are definitely not unhappy 😂. Be on the lookout for a new massive fund announcement soon. Batch size is shrinking cause those...

@danjos3ph Been through YC. They don’t put pressure on you to do any of those things. It’s your company - you decide what’s best and how you want to run your ship - the partners just try to help you and provide their feedback in whatever direction you choose. They’re very pro-founder choice and...

@flipflop2234 You’d likely not be a first user then, and that’s totally fine. And I do agree that for consumer products, it should have a good amount of polish. This advice is likely more geared towards B2B businesses — where it’s incredibly common for companies to trial very barebones tools...

@hoodiebunny12 better start loading up on that Faygo in that case

@futuretrainee Ideal customer profile (not to be mistaken with the insane clown posse) And yeah, I totally get that. As founders there are a ton of hats you have to wear. It’s easy to get holed up into building because you want your baby to be perfect (esp as a technical founder) but if you...

@futuretrainee Congrats! You just went from 0 to 1, which is often the hardest part of starting out. Keep doing more of those things that don’t scale, and continue to do sales yourself. Sounds like you’ve found a pitch that’s working. See if you can keep it going. Tap your customer for...