<story><title>Our Journey to and Through YC</title><url>https://medium.com/@UseShout/our-journey-to-and-through-yc-a1d118e47f5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>staunch</author><text>The difficulty is in not thinking you&amp;#x27;re a loser just because the smartest people in Silicon Valley (some of your heros to be honest) have repeatedly looked you in the eye and thought to themselves &amp;quot;Nah.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Or in my case having one of the YC partners say &amp;quot;Oh, you guys are back? You&amp;#x27;re a shoo-in this time.&amp;quot; only to be rejected again that day :-)&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s a tip most people won&amp;#x27;t need: do not reply to the rejection email 30 seconds later with a petulant rant. It&amp;#x27;s not fair, it marks as an untouchable crazy person, and you&amp;#x27;ll regret it.&lt;p&gt;My company likely would have failed even with YC&amp;#x27;s help. I learned a lot in the two years working on that startup. I&amp;#x27;m the kind of person that tends to learn things the hard way and I probably had to in this case.&lt;p&gt;Sorry, there&amp;#x27;s no triumphal story of my own yet. I&amp;#x27;m still working on it! :-)</text></comment>
<story><title>Our Journey to and Through YC</title><url>https://medium.com/@UseShout/our-journey-to-and-through-yc-a1d118e47f5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>larrys</author><text>The put in a tremendous amount of effort and it paid off in the end.&lt;p&gt;However reading this I was thinking &amp;quot;what if they put the same dedication and effort into doing a  more traditional business endeavor. Kind of in the same way when you see a &amp;quot;successful&amp;quot; criminal you might think &amp;quot;wow they are smart, crafty and energetic they could make a good legitimate living&amp;quot;.</text></comment>