Reminder: Eight (8) days left to submit your YC application.

21 pointsby thoraxvor 18 Jahren19 comments

Just a friendly reminder that you have about a week to fill out your applications for Winter 2009.

http://ycombinator.com/w2009.html

23 comments

rantfoilvor 18 Jahren

Good luck to all the new YC applicants. As it mentions on the YC site, you should definitely bounce your applications off YC alums. Email us-- it can only help.

AlexTheFoundervor 18 Jahren

Do you mean that Posterous is "a place to post everything. just email us" your YC application? (a joke)

[deleted]vor 18 Jahren

fallentimesvor 18 Jahren

If I could give four words of advice (I was in YC08), outside the most common advice, it's this:

Make your application interesting.

Good luck!

pxlpshrvor 18 Jahren

Innovation is recession proof!!

Good luck to all those entering their product/business, wish you the best. Now go show wall-street who MAKES the market.

pclarkvor 18 Jahren

Innovation is most definitely not recession proof, quite the opposite in fact.

ntoshevvor 18 Jahren

Tomorrow it will be seven days, but the link will probably stay on the front page and you won't be able to change the title.

thoraxvor 18 Jahren

Good point! Let's hope they read the "posted X hours ago" part. :)

maxkleinvor 18 Jahren

I've not got the stuff for Y Combinator. I've come to accept my own mediocrity. Just the same way I'm not going to go run a marathon against people who have trained for years.

Someday, you guys should try accepting that you are not extraordinarily clever. It's very liberating.

fallentimesvor 18 Jahren

I agree that it shouldn't be a "life goal" or something equally ridiculous. But honestly, I applied on a whim. If I hadn't, I most likely would have been laid off from my job last week.

alex_cvor 18 Jahren

shrug

I don't think I'm extraordinarily clever (not compared to some of my friends from university, or to many of the posters here).

I do try to challenge and improve myself. Just like with the marathon, training does make a difference.

aleccovor 18 Jahren

Dude, don't condition yourself. And the answer is right there in your words, you picked a great analogy. Start now training for next year! Make a plan. Have a progress log. Make a mockup. Make a prototype.

- A marathon runner

siong1987vor 18 Jahren

To all the ex-ycombinator,

If I have a proper beta product, do I have higher chance to get in?

rantfoilvor 18 Jahren

Of course -- a beta is infinitely better than a powerpoint slide. Lots of real users are infinitely better than a beta site. Etc.

We're in the business of turning ideas into reality. The farther you get, the better off you are.

[deleted]vor 18 Jahren

opalvor 18 Jahren

No time for no return.

thoraxvor 18 Jahren

I don't know what that means, but it might be interesting to note that you're one of the first people to mention this phrase on the internet: http://ri.ms/notime

(Edit: HN didn't like quotes in the URL, so used URL shrinker)

daviduvor 18 Jahren

Indeed, it's a decent line.

kwamenum86vor 18 Jahren

Ha, now that's innovation.

Prrometheusvor 18 Jahren

Is this for the summer session?

unalonevor 18 Jahren

Nope. Winter 09, which is January.

Applying for the summer I'd guess gets sent in around April, if it's exactly 6 months apart. Meaning people like you and me still have time to polish up the plans.

[deleted]vor 18 Jahren