YC application and interview process could be tedious for founders.<p>I am curious which companies got selected, which didn't and why? How do you feel about it and what you are going to do?
My startup was not selected.<p>This was the first accelerator we applied to, and I of course obviously hold no ill will. I may try again in the future. I do appreciate that they said I would have an answer today, and I received an answer.<p>We are in the process of having our MVP built (finalizes in November), and will continue on as we have been.<p>In one way I am kind of happy. This is the first rejection to overcome.. who knows how many more we have ahead of us, but our passion to bring opportunity to every person who wants it will not be stopped.<p>I wish every company selected this year nothing but the best of luck moving forward.
Our application got rejected.<p>We are from LookMobility(<a href="http://www.lookmobility.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.lookmobility.com</a>), developing a product on creating Virtual Reality experience for the people who can't code and design, it is going to be powerpoint for Virtual Reality.<p>We have no idea why our application is rejected and also there is no regrets on it. Just move ahead and think forward!
Got rejected. In a painful process to figure out why. It will be fine if YC didn't carefully read our application. It won't be if they did. We will continue carry on, toward our roadmap, try to prove ourselves by product performance as soon as possible, and meanwhile think through what we might be missed and how can we do better.
We're working on a new sales platform called coldminer (<a href="http://www.cold-miner.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.cold-miner.com</a>) that unifies the entire process by including millions of built in prospecting leads, virtual call center, help desk, real time communications between sales reps, optional integrated e-commerce store for both front end purchasing as well as the option for sales reps to select inventory and make the sale from the call center, mass email capability, sales rep training and more.<p>We've been in the prototype phase for the last 7 months with one company using the prototype as it's sole leads source and sales platform and its helped them open over 200 new accounts and raise sales by over 200%.<p>We need alpha/beta testers and would love to see some other startups use it to gain traction so if anyone is interested in it let me know and we'll set you up.<p>It does both b2b and b2c but we're still working on the b2c aspect (a lot more data points and moving parts on the b2c side, plus a hell of a lot more leads to deal with) so we're really looking for companies that sell b2b right now but will be looking for b2c companies soon.
Proly all of the YC-R's are going through this:
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See also:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467290" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467290</a><p>I got rejected, but I was expecting it - we didn't do ourselves any favors with our video, and we were way too early in the cycle (we didn't even have an english version of our webpage).<p>The YC Fellowship would have been a better fit for us, I really hope the experiment works and they do it again! :)<p>In case you didn't know about it: <a href="https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/" rel="nofollow">https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/</a>
I'm the founder of Impact That www.impactthat.org. It's a reader engagement tool for news media. We weren't accepted this time. Watching and reading the examples I realized we're probably too early in our development, but I decided to apply anyway. Just going through the process was good experience. We're still going full steam ahead, and are going to apply again after we have our pilot project with our first customer up and running.
I submitted my application for Storytella[0] two days late and I haven't heard anything yet. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.<p>[0] <a href="https://storytel.la/" rel="nofollow">https://storytel.la/</a>