Comments on: One Response to Rejection

By: Axel

Axel — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:01:07 +0000

I know this is an old entry, but, since it seems that you managed
to get your project started anyway, I think those blog entries below may provide some extra motivation and helpful insights on your way:

Expecting and embracing startup rejection
http://www.fluidinfo.com/terry/2008/11/09/expecting-and-embracing-startup-rejection/

Passion and the creation of highly non-uniform value
http://www.fluidinfo.com/terry/2008/11/10/passion-and-the-creation-of-highly-non-uniform-value/

By: dustin

dustin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:11:57 +0000

thanks for sharing this, really insightful and helpful. i hope it works out whatever it is you’re doing. we’ll see if i make it in the summer 09 program.

By: kingstonchronicle

kingstonchronicle — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:34:05 +0000

Nice article. I just started my own venture capital along the lines of YCombinator.

Funny when I first saw YC I thought it was a joke and a waste of my time. It was due to the ridiculous so called process from my stand point. If I recall correctly they use to send me updates form time to time or maybe it was some other group I had no interest in.

The concept YC has is cool, but I do not like their methods.

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Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:01:25 +0000

[...] I did come across an interesting WP Blogger that was/is a YC groupie. Her blog is pretty well written (much better than mine). [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:28:19 +0000

Thanks for the link.

By: aswanson

aswanson — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:12:28 +0000

In case you didn’t pick up my (late) response on HN:

“In high school, I got rejected by McDonalds, Taco Bell, and Kentucky Fried Chicken. I really wanted a job at one of those places for money for recording equipment for my band. They all rejected me.

I finally got a job at Roy Rogers after a year of searching, and the rest is history. I got over the rejections, and you can too. Of course it’s pretty funny looking back, but only given the proper perspective. You have to look at things for what they are.”

Keep your head up, don’t sweat the small stuff, you’ve got a world to change.

By: Owen Byrne

Owen Byrne — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:07:25 +0000

Dalhousie! Great to see another graduate, sinc I also hang around news.ycombinator.com. I’m mostly known for digg.com.

By: Danielle Fong

Danielle Fong — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:11:48 +0000

Yes, we have, but if I mention it here our URL would be flooded. It’s not quite ready to show publicly.

By: David Reynolds

David Reynolds — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:46:33 +0000

Have you guys thought of a name yet? Just keep hacking away and evolving your ideas and you’ll be fine.

By: Fred Schoeneman

Fred Schoeneman — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:13:56 +0000

Danielle,

Good luck.

By: Julian (i.e. Flannel God)

Julian (i.e. Flannel God) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:32:46 +0000

:-)

By: Danielle Fong

Danielle Fong — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:57:56 +0000

Philipp,

I’m sure they will. We’re concentrating on the next step: building this thing, and we’re definitely pursuing funding from other sources. As noted, we might not be a YC company with a YC idea, but we believe in it.

By: Danielle Fong

Danielle Fong — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:56:25 +0000

Julian,

Usually I go by No Glad Feline.

By: Philipp Schumann

Philipp Schumann — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:53:35 +0000

Now make your YC application public (right here, right now), some private angel (without the sexy YC network and “connections” and all that fluff) might still be interested. There are so many flavours of seed funding. Keep on walking!

By: Julian (i.e. Flannel God)

Julian (i.e. Flannel God) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:27:32 +0000

If it’s any consolation, your name anagrams to “Flanneled go I”, “Lifelong Edna”, “Finagled Leno”, “Loafed in glen” (also, “Foaled in glen”), “Folding an eel”, “Feeling Nodal”, “Defoe align LN” (Robinson Crusoe author’s D&D alignment?), “Leading Felon”, “Feeding on all”, “e log(n) ideal f(n)”, “Leafing node L”, “Falling on Dee” (and “Falling, O Eden”), “Fading Noelle”, “Flailed on Gen”, “Genial fondle”, “Enfold a Nigel”, “Felling Anode” (yow!), “Finland, O Glee!”, “Feigned all done” (that’s what SHE said!), “Flannel Diego” (and “Flannel Ego Id”, “Flannel Geoid”), “Golfed in Lane”, “Legend of Lain”, “Denial of Leng” (Lovecraft Mythos revisionist?), “Fallen doing ‘E’” (clubber’s bane?), “Flagon Leiden”, “Define gallon”, “Ill-fanned Ego”, “Elfin angel, do!”, “Fennel dialog”, “Genie of Land L”, “Fling an old E.E.”, “El Niño Flagged”, “Fiend Galleon” (a ghost ship?), “Fiend ogle LAN” (he’s after me Gigabit switches!), “Fiend all gone!” (after calling Ghostbusters), “Foiled Glenna”, “Adolf Gin ‘n Eel” (my favorite restaurant! It’s attached to the Adolf Glee Inn), “end if all_gone” (iterator pseudocode?), “Feline no glad” (lolcat-ism?), “O Final Legend”, “Flange Leonid”, “Golden finale” and, when all else fails, “Deafening Lol” ;-)

By: amritw

amritw — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:28:14 +0000

That was an incredibly well written post. I sympathize.

By: Garry Tan

Garry Tan — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:13:59 +0000

Keep working on it — if you build something of value, it will be undeniable to everyone soon enough.

By: Danielle Fong

Danielle Fong — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:36:41 +0000

Thanks for the link.

By: Denny K Miu

Denny K Miu — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:56:35 +0000

I posted an article this morning on YC and young entrepreneurs, hope it helps.

http://foundread.com/2008/04/11/to-yc-or-to-vc-that-is-my-question/