[someear]

I assume you plan on raising money? In your case, you would likely get even more than a 6% valuation bump, making YC worth it on that alone.

I think there are some key details missing in this post which make it hard to tell why you were in fact rejected. In addition to the accelerator, you've also been going at it for 3+ years, and are only now hitting 1M For B2B, that is unfortunately on the really slow end of things for growth (read Jason Lemkins quora posts for whay to expect for typical bootstrapped busineeses). The fact that you're a leader already in this market, and growth is that slow, is maybe an indicator the market doesn't have much potential. On the other hand it might also just be that you're in a market that is new, so the potential is there and others just don't see it.

[rdl]

I'm fairly down on Quora, but ~everything https://www.quora.com/profile/Jason-M.-Lemkin has written looks pretty amazing -- I wish he'd write a book or something.

[brandnewlow]

I suspect he's too busy investing and slinging tickets to his annual conference. Conference Money > Book Money.

[rdl]

Nice thing about that conference: they're letting people volunteer and get free entrance.

[_kyran]

He is in the process of writing a book at the moment.

https://mega.nz/#!ip0WXAZR!ynjFWvnvojT0bmG7maTszjFybuG_Yr1De...

[hkmurakami]

IIRC his number is $2-3mm ARR after 24 months bootstrapped in SaaS at the lowest end.