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Who got in?

29 pointsnextmoveone9 comments

and how was it?

We did.

We look forward to writing a lisp REPL Facebook app that will provide millions of users the ability to be the next generation of YC's. We plan on monetizing it by taking 0.5% of each company who uses our app and gets through YC, we are calling it meta-meta-entrepreneurship.

We celebrated by stealing some laptops in the parking lot while other teams drank their sorrows away.

(OK, I didn't apply)

the people who got in are on easy street now. all they have to do is make a product that will survive the scrutiny of users, investors, pundits like mike arrington, and the rest of the YC community in a few months.

If my team had gotten in, we wouldn't say anything. There's no point. The first thing we would do would be to buy a beer on the plane ride home and start coding. See ya in 5 months.

or immediately take 3 shots each at the bar. that's what we did.

or get your car robbed and laptops stolen, that's what we did :)

(followed by long islands and jager bombs. and yes, our data was protected by dropbox, we didn't lose a second of work ;))

is it just me, or do laptops seem to get stolen a lot?

enough that the sheriffs in my area waste tax money at hauling big construction signs, park them near parking lots, and turn them on 24/7 to remind people to lock or hide their laptops.

it's a called a trunk and valet keys. use them.

Indeed. Whenever I travel I lock my laptop in the trunk. In my car the trunk can only be opened by the remote attached to my key (or by someone with a really good crow bar or chain saw but that would cause way too much noise).

We didn't get in.

I don't want to spill too many beans, but I will give some advice.

YC is nice. They are not necessarily going to be nice to you during the interview.

We expected YC to have remembered more of our written application, and that threw us off. We wound up explaining things we hadn't prepared for, and not explaining what we should have.

Ten minutes is nothing.

In other words, everything went wrong!

And a tremendously valuable experience.

Congratulations to everyone who got funded.

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