Thanks for your comments. One of my goals is to &quot;falsify&quot; the current approach to mental health. It shouldn&#x27;t take much to embarrass the medical system into fixing itself.<p>Before this case, I had another who was a hopeless alcoholic. 15-16 years ago she took herself off methamphetamine, then the anxiety started. Her doctor gave a prescription for Xanax, then some other parents at her son&#x27;s hockey game shared their Vodka&#x2F;grape juice. Her thinking then was, &quot;What do I need Xanax for, when I have Schmirnoff?&quot; I met her about 3 years ago. She&#x27;d tried to stay sober after 2 years in prison for her 3rd DUI. But then life happened, she couldn&#x27;t handle it, and started drinking again. She is doing quite well now.<p>I do have other things going that I haven&#x27;t mentioned here. I manufacture a few niche-market items. One weekend I had a flood of orders - a radio show host had told his audience to search for a specific term that my site is on the 1st page of results for. The HN audience is not my target market, so I don&#x27;t want to link there now. (&quot;A startup should give its competitors as little information as possible.&quot; - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;avg.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;avg.html</a> )<p>Years ago I tried manufacturing the supplement that&#x27;s been helpful for my girlfriend, but I didn&#x27;t know how to market it, and what I&#x27;d manufactured wasn&#x27;t quite as good as the original version sold by someone else. I gave a bottle away to a woman who needed it. When I called a few days later, she said &quot;THAT STUFF REALLY WORKS!&quot; When I called back months later, her sister said that she was in the state&#x27;s psychiatric hospital. Supplements don&#x27;t fix everything, especially when poverty is a factor.<p>I want to file an New Drug Application (NDA) with the FDA, so I could manufacture that supplement as a gel-cap, and then get FDA approval for a little claim, such as &quot;improves memory&quot;, or another claim that is very valuable to a certain target market. Then I&#x27;d branch out into other uses.<p>The $20,000 for this HN fellowship is not a lot of money.  I&#x27;d buy a camera, a wireless microphone, and probably spend most of the funds on travel expenses. Access to the ycombinator platform would be much more valuable, and is not available at any price.<p>I would also leverage the fellowship to solicit some people I know as investors. I&#x27;d want the corporation set up before I go around asking for money.