[nextmoveone]

It's personal because everyone on our team put in personal time, meaning more time than we allotted for our normal procedures to apply.

It sucks to be rejected. I needed to vent somehow.

[palish]

Just treat YC like you would any other VC. I doubt you'd be broken up if one of them rejected you; you'd (ideally) have many more lined up anyway.

There are opportunities all over the place. Keep your hopes up.

[DanielBMarkham]

It does suck to be rejected. But there's sucks like "we spent a week with you analyzing your entire team and pulling apart opportunities and leverage you didn't know you had, but we're just going to have to pass because we don't think you'll make it" and then there's sucks like "we looked at fourteen hundred forms people filled out on our web page in the last two days and the matrices didn't line up for you guys.

Hopefully you could handle either of those scenarios, but if I had to take one, the YC one is a pretty easy rejection. Heck, we even got a nice e-mail.