Why YCombinator is a waste of time

Let me tell you a story about my cousin, Steven. Steven wanted to become a musician. He had a rock band he diligently put together, and they actually came together and recorded an Album. When he played the album for me, he described it as a mixture of Green Day with some Linkin Pa rk. He told me how he took the best of both bands and c reated his own sound.

The problem was, his music was boring, and his band sounded like hundreds of other indie bands.

Steven was just an average looking guy, his band was good but not brilliant , his music was solid, but not different. Steven believed in his band, and he was just good enough for everyone to encourage him to go on working on music, but never good enough to attract a fan base. But Steven never even tried to build up fans. He never played his music for totally random people, and asked them for their opinion. All he did was try to get the people at the record labels inter ested in his music. He called and hounded, he stalked and staked out. He kept chasing those labels for years and years, and then suddenly gave up. ANYBOD Y WH O

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ABOUT GETTING A RESPONSE FROM YCOMBINATOR IS DOING THE SAME STUPID THING. Paul did not care about the music. Paul cared about the money. Paul did not concentrate on getting his music to the people, he concentrated on getting his music to the people who would guarantee him money and connections. You are doing the same thing with your software. Instead of getting your idea and your software to the people, you are making your idea for the person with money and connections.

If you are planning to apply for the Winter funding round if you get rejected this time, then you are going to fail at business.