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selvanon I canceled the project: A success story of talking to your potential customers

If you had launched MVP and asked feedback on that, it would have been more accurate. Optimize your time/energy towards validating your idea via MVP. If it takes less than 4 weeks to validate an idea, my bet would be go for it.

selvanon YC Reject - We've been offered an investment to fund our Summer 2011 class

Accepted applicants articulated their idea & company better than non-accepted applicatns as per YC scale. If you aren't accepted by YC, shouldn't it be same as getting rejected from a VC?. In most cases VCs are investing in companies that are rejected by other VCs. How one perceives opportunities for an idea/investment, is very subjective. YC and YC Reject will not be same even though offer is similar ($12,000-20,000 for about 6% of the company).

selvanon Collect HN: Aprils Fools

DST's Yuri Milner offers EVERY YCS11 applicant $250K.

selvanon Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash

Wow. What does it mean for Engine Yard & its investors...