Startup School 2017 First Lecture
I was wondering what the acceptance rates were for this MOOC. I understand it&#x27;s difficult to deal with large numbers of applicants and that it&#x27;s just not feasible to give every single applicant personalized feedback.<p>From the other side, I&#x27;ve been working on my goal for much of the past year and a half if I include collaboration attempts with offline businesses in my market that ended with job offers but no collab. I understand the long time span looks bad. I understand that it&#x27;s minus that I&#x27;m a solo founder. It&#x27;s just that I&#x27;ve gone a long time without a real salary or even insurance, I deeply believe in the value of what I&#x27;m working on and am beginning to have an idea of how much longer and harder the path is without mentorship from people who have done it before.<p>I see a tremendous value in YC and have already benefited from its free content. That said, estimating the EV of applying, has to include an assessment of likelihood and the costs of time and distraction as well as the tremendous upside.<p>Knowing the acceptance rate would be helpful in calibrating how to approach future applications, both for me and others who weren&#x27;t selected.