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How to Apply and Succeed at Y Combinator by Dalton Caldwell

Startup School by Y Combinator

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The Importance of Having a Scientist on the Team

If you have all these great ideas and no one on the team can actually do it, you're going to have a hard time. So just having a really good sense both in the application and in general, i would recommend, having someone on the team that can do it is highly recommended. A third of last batch were companies hat applied already in the past and didn't get in. And so the reason i say this: It's not bad to apply not getting in. That doesn't ruin your rods. If anything it helps you is that your next application shows progress. I look at the applications and  look at what we are looking for as reasons to go ahead with our project

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