A lot of genuinely smart individuals post, comment, or author a lot of the content that appears here. Many accomplishments abound, including:
1) selling a shareware app written years ago.
2) founding and editing the top tech blog.
3) making a lot of money playing poker seriously.
4) completing their degrees early in life.
5) having written thousands of small and large programs over the past thirty years.
6) having an influential role at a company ten years ago.
Those who are in the game and not for the glitz are the ones whose opinion matters, and that opinion is to go for it, by definition. They go for it, and make decisions that put the company, customers, and themselves in the best position whenever decisions needs to be made.
That's what I meant: that YC is happy to fund startups that don't make money initially, if that's the right strategy for that kind of startup. So if you're planning to start the next Facebook or Twitter, by all means apply.
You already do.
A lot of genuinely smart individuals post, comment, or author a lot of the content that appears here. Many accomplishments abound, including:
1) selling a shareware app written years ago.
2) founding and editing the top tech blog.
3) making a lot of money playing poker seriously.
4) completing their degrees early in life.
5) having written thousands of small and large programs over the past thirty years.
6) having an influential role at a company ten years ago.
Those who are in the game and not for the glitz are the ones whose opinion matters, and that opinion is to go for it, by definition. They go for it, and make decisions that put the company, customers, and themselves in the best position whenever decisions needs to be made.