[Alex3917]

"A lot of companies rejected by YC have went on successfully; some have even re-applied several times before getting in."

I applied with someone who is widely recognized as one of the smartest tech folks on HN. We got rejected. A couple years later I reapplied and got accepted as a non-technical single founder.

In two years I went from getting shot down despite having a dream team on paper, to getting accepted despite setting off basically every 'badness' flag on the app. It's kind of a long story as to why, but the point is that things change fast in startup land, that's why we do them in the first place.

[stevenj]

>...got accepted as a non-technical single founder.

That's interesting. I didn't know YC had funded a non-technical single founder before.

I wonder how many non-technical single founders it's funded to-date.

>It's kind of a long story as to why

Would love to hear that story.

Also, what startup did you get in with?

[Alex3917]

"Would love to hear that story."

I just wrote up the story as a blog post:

http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2011/04/how-i-got-i...

[arach]

>> It's kind of a long story as to why,

I'm also interested in this story.

This is one case where not seeing vote counts encourages me to write a comment that doesn't add value. Voting up the other 2 replies wouldn't be that useful. Would it?

[gibybo]

I'm also interested in the long story :)

[chmike]

I guess it is the business project that made the difference and eventually how well it was thought and prepared. The goal should be the business not to be accepted by YC ;)