Feeling Inadequate For Y Combinator

Just read a lovely article about Y Combinator by Susan Johnson on Medium. Susan talks about being a mom, and being in Y Combinator. She also mentions the fact that she "didn't think she was a candidate for the world class accelerator." She said she thought she didn't look like a YC founder. Well me either Susan! 

Here are my reason's why.
1. I'm too old.
2. I'm too crazy.

If I wanted to get super detailed about my reason's that I think I'm no candidate for YC, I add in the fact my grammar and math skills suck. I curse a bit, and sometimes I chew tobacco. But those are little things they could let slide. The too old and crazy,for sure those things could keep my team out. At least that's what I think. 

Others in my life think the reason I'll be kept out is is the fact my idea is still an idea and not something with some substance. Hmmm, well it does have substance. I've taken it four hundred miles ahead of just an idea in the head in a few short months. Hell, I even have t-shirts and bookmarks, that should count for ground work. ; - ) I also know that my idea hits spoton, on something I read once in a book that some venture capitalist looked for in startups. 

1. A big ass idea.
2. With a big ass market.
3. And big ass founders. (okay our asses are not big.) But we could do squats for you! 

Passdown's is a big ass idea, with the biggest market that exist, every connected person. As for us founders, well were good people who like to be funny and laugh as much as possible.

Eight more days till Wael and I, either get a happy email or a sad email. I got the sad email last year when I applied as a solo founder with a sort of good startup,with an okay market. This year I applied with an entire new startup with my cofounder, Wael. I see Wael as a total YC candidate. With a software engineering masters and a desire to build startups, he's all young tech talent! He is way over one hundred percent in. I sure hope I did my part on the application. I hope we do not get the "sorry we did not pick you email."

As often as us applicants call that email the rejection email. It's not rejection, it's just that other teams had better applications, and ideas. It's a sad place to be in, but I do have experience, so I know I will recover. 

Even still the build goes on. I met a wonderful possible new addition to the Passdown team, Arvin. He is a developer with ton of experience and I'm going to meet him this week. One of the first things he told me is, we don't need YC, we can still build it. Now that's what I like to here. This startup will face many detours, disappointments, and hardships, but if the people building see the vision as a whole, they can take it as far as they want to go. This would be Arvin! I think I'm going to like him when I meet him in person. 

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