<story><title>Post YC Depression</title><url>https://www.bmaho.com/articles/post-yc-depression</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drenginian</author><text>People seem to become really attached to the validation from YC.&lt;p&gt;Getting into an incubator or getting money from investors is zero measure of business success. Business success is users and growth and revenue.&lt;p&gt;Whether YC blesses you is also zero reflection on you as a person. Rejection by YC means nothing at all.&lt;p&gt;I think business is about trying to make money, it’s not about YC and funding and the scene and investment rounds and hyper growth and beers after work and been seen as one of the cool kids.&lt;p&gt;Head down, work, balanced lifestyle, try to make something small succeed on your own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bald</author><text>Having been rejected 2 times by YC, could not agree more.&lt;p&gt;biz #1 is now series B at $120M valuation&lt;p&gt;biz #2 is now series A with $50M valuation&lt;p&gt;biz #3 is now seed with $15M valuation&lt;p&gt;I did not bother to apply with biz #3 to YC, probability-weighted, it was not worth the effort to me.</text></comment>
<story><title>Post YC Depression</title><url>https://www.bmaho.com/articles/post-yc-depression</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drenginian</author><text>People seem to become really attached to the validation from YC.&lt;p&gt;Getting into an incubator or getting money from investors is zero measure of business success. Business success is users and growth and revenue.&lt;p&gt;Whether YC blesses you is also zero reflection on you as a person. Rejection by YC means nothing at all.&lt;p&gt;I think business is about trying to make money, it’s not about YC and funding and the scene and investment rounds and hyper growth and beers after work and been seen as one of the cool kids.&lt;p&gt;Head down, work, balanced lifestyle, try to make something small succeed on your own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hef19898</author><text>Even YC is open about the fact that they are wrong with rejections. Also agree on the problem with VC money as a measure of success, because it is not. And still it used, it seems, as the prime success indicator in everything start-up. And as such is the primary thing people seem to seek out. It is also &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; persuasive, sometimes I catch myself with a small amount of jealousy when someone in my field is raising multi-million rounds. And wouldn&amp;#x27;t even take that money if someone offered it &lt;i&gt;right now&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>