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Invitations sent for Work at a Startup (ycombinator.posterous.com)
31 points by pg on June 1, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 22 comments


What are the plans for doing this again? Is this going to be a yearly thing or have you not decided (depending on how it goes, etc.)? I'm interested in attending one of these once I finish my PhD.


We'll probably do more. I'm not sure how soon. Maybe as soon as 6 months from now.


Are those of us who got denied on a waiting list if spots do open up?


Unfortunately the software I wrote for this doesn't have the ability to do waiting lists yet. Maybe in some future event though.


Do you want a hand with that?

What would we call it? "Work at Work at a Startup"? ;-)


Are there any plans to livestream the event?


Yes, on Justin.tv.


A question for PG: How many applicants did you get?


Is there any way to find out what rating was given for our application?


Rejections also sent for Work at a Startup.


Did anyone else get invites to apply for some yc startups, but didn't get accepted for the Work At A Startup event?


Yup.


yes, that happened to me


yep


I was accepted, but I forgot the username I used to apply :\. Should I email info@yc to get it, so that I can RSVP? [I don't think I had my email in my profile either, but I'm guessing it was in the application.]


Would you consider an event that would include non-technical people as well? I think it might be interesting for sales people, marketing and so on to get more of an idea what working at a start-up would be like.


Did the application process exclude non-technical people? It was just a big text field saying "RESUME GOES HERE."

I think they would have wanted solid sales/marketing/design people to apply too.


Well the language is explicitly programmer related, e.g. "If you're like a lot of programmers you may have considered one day joining a startup" and "the event is free, but since more programmers may want to attend than we have room for..."

The event had a clear focus on being for programmers, which is fine by me. I'm just saying another event, geared towards non-programmers, with a different focus, might be useful.


I'm a designer, and I applied. I also got rejected. :P


I'm a designer and I applied and got accepted. Now n=2.


Are you any good? :P

Flesh out your profile here and maybe good things will happen. (Note: the "email" field isn't public.)


I second this. Especially for those of us who are technical, but don't want to program.




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