Ask YC: Missed Opportunites at YC

8 pointsby lakeeffecthace 18 años7 comments

Everyone knows that Reddit was a really successful Y Combinator Start Up.

Does anyone know of any companies that are really successful that applied, but were not accepted to Y Combinator?

It seems every VC has one, since Y Combinator makes its decisions before the product is built, one would imagine their job would be tougher.

Any insight?

4 comments

pghace 18 años

I don't know of any so far. There are bound to be eventually, though.

aneeshhace 18 años

Well, unless you're hotmail or YouTube, it takes more than 2-3 years to be "really successful". YC has only been around for something like 3 years. Give it some time.

lakeeffecthace 18 años

What about other places such as TechCrunch 40?

rmshace 18 años

http://sleep.fm/

aneeshhace 18 años

I love the idea, but the site looks horrible in IE7 (lets not get into the reasons I'm using IE7 right now ...)

willarsonhace 18 años

With all due respect to their work, I don't think that its an IE7 problem.

mattmaroonhace 18 años

Google applied to Y Combinator but was rejected.