<story><title>Applications Open For Summer 2011 YC Funding Cycle</title><url>http://ycombinator.com/apply.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pg</author><text>We added two new questions this year: Why did you pick this project to work on? and How will you get users?  In retrospect it&apos;s surprising we didn&apos;t already ask these.  (When reading applications we found we were trying to reconstruct answers to them from the answers people gave to other questions.)&lt;p&gt;We also stopped describing the video as optional.  In practice it wasn&apos;t.</text></comment>
<story><title>Applications Open For Summer 2011 YC Funding Cycle</title><url>http://ycombinator.com/apply.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bkrausz</author><text>Random question: what would you guys like to hear/know about applying (or YC in general) that&apos;s not already out there?  I&apos;ve been considering writing a blog post about GazeHawk&apos;s YC experience, but there are so many good ones already, and I don&apos;t want to just add redundancy.  Anything unanswered from a startup perspective you&apos;d like to know?</text></comment>