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by jsjenkins168 6864 days ago
That is a very lame way to label yourself though. Rejected by YC, rejected by VCs, rejected by your peers, whatever. ALL startups experience some sort of failure one time or another. Its getting back up when you get knocked down (EVERY time) that leads to success.

Bandsintown is an excellent web application and in my opinion the founders should be looking forward rather than dwelling on a past YC rejection.

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I am one of the founders. I do not consider it dwelling on the fact that we were rejected. It doesnt actually bother me at all as you can see from most of my previous posts I have been labeling ourselves that way to help motivate others to keep pushing forward. The second reason i label it this way is because i think on HackerNews people are naturally curious about all the Ycombinator applicants a little bit more than just any startup. I may be wrong though but this is my reasoning for highlighting the fact that we were indeed rejected but continue to move forward.
Oh man, you know that moderation is going a bit too far when something like this happens...