The Waiting For October 28th

Here I am working hard at forcing my brain not to think about it. I have endless work to do on Passdown, so I fill up a ton of time with that, yet, no matter how hard I try not to let my mind wonder what Y Combinator's answer is going to be on October 28th, it still does.

Endless flip flopping of thoughts run through my brain. If you pump your team up and say "We're getting invited" then you seemingly set yourself up for a big heartbreak if the "sorry you didn't make it email shows up".

If you tamp down your wonder with the negative, and keep repeating "you have no chance in hell" well that's just destructive thoughts that no one in life needs. So you are trapped in a waiting hell, some sort of world you don't want to be in, yet you do, cause you want what Y Combinator offers, HELP, and more importantly an environment for your startup to thrive in.

As most of us entrepreneurs know most startups FAIL. So we ought to all be applying for every accelerator we can. Just apply to them all and don't stop. You may never get into any of them, but you certainly won't if you don't apply. 

Suffering I am in this waiting period, but I'm not stopping building, testing, seeking out answers to see if Passdown is worth building. I've had a ton of ideas that never made it past my thoughts. I've also built my last startup without testing. A mistake I had to learn. The thing about Passdown is that, Wael and I kind of don't have to test to see if there is market, as others have already done that for us, like Box and Dropbox. We know people want and desire data storage. We also kind of do not need to test auction services as Ebay did that for us too. The thing about Passdown is, our data storage and auction service is for reason's people have not thought they needed it for. It's the great uncertainty about a startup idea. Do people need it? Do they want it? Will they pay for it? Can't say, but we can see what people have already done and the answer is yes to those. 

We also have some unique 'potential users' responses, and they have been so overwhelming positive. Filled with amazingly great comments about the desire for what we are building. Just wish we had the beta ready for use, so we could put the meat into the fire people are expressing about Passdown. Yes,we'd like to see if they want some dessert with the great dish we are serving. 

Yes my team is going to be heartbroken for a period of time if we do not get invited. I've experienced it a few times already, but my cofounder Wael has not ever. Wael is so excited, pumped and positive. I will be so heartbroken for him. I will be heartbroken for humanity too, cause I know my team needs an accelerator to bring this good to the world. We need the environment to thrive in as so many other applicants do. The competition right now is all the other teams. As much as I wish them the best of luck. I hope my team smokes them!