Feedback vs. Feedback

Only you can decide if your concept is worth pursuing. At the end of the day YC is only a tiny group of people that know about a few things (relative to the world, or even the VC world at large). Their opinion of your idea or application is by no means the end of the road.<p>Many many founders who have gone through a more traditional funding cycle will tell you about 1 VC that completely degraded their pitch, and another that ate it up and delivered money in wheelbarrows. <p>It might also be simply that your idea is highly viable, but just not AS VIABLE as some of the other applicants. Common Angels, for example, might see your pitch and want to buy in.<p>Look at some of the opportunities Guy Kawasaki has passed on (Yahoo, Google), and what those companies have become.<p>If you believe in your idea, keep at it. If you're only validated by someone else's opinion, seek traditional employment.

I believe feedback is a never ending loop. I give you some feedback, you make changes and present them to me, I give you more feedback, you make more changes, come back to me. It never ends. Since Y Combinator has so few spots they can afford to go with the ideas that are best formed and they like best.

It would have to work like this:<p>(1) You send a $100.00 deposit in advance of your application.<p>(2) YC ticks off boxes next to a stock set of sentences that describe their impressions based on your application.<p>(3) If 3 months go by and you haven't contacted them to argue about it, you get your deposit back.<p>Otherwise they would have no way of dealing with the torrent of two-way conversations that would ensue. They're evaluating hundreds of applications; they can't deliberate over each one like a jury.