[cfield]

Indeed, she credits your blog post for giving her "confidence that someone else had done it before" (and noting that your situation "was way worse")!

I'm glad you both took time to share your stories. There are so many factors, known and unknown, that influence these kinds of outcomes. But, as pg has written [0], the one constant is simply ... DON'T GIVE UP!

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html

[emmiechang]

Yeah--not very YC of them to discourage me. But then again, I didn't seem like I was YC material at the moment they talked to me. I'm glad PB and my interview team took a chance on me though, I'm still going strong!!