Playbook / Lessons / Applications: accelerator, grant and lender
StartupsKeep building while the application is out
A founder who applied to an accelerator writes that applicants should aim to start a company, not to be accepted. His point is that the best preparation is moving fast on the business, and he ends by warning that most applicants get turned down.
“Most of the people reading this and planning on applying to YC will get rejected.”— Scott Wheeler, Directed Edge - Blog - On Applying to Y Combinator, Sep 2009
Do this
Ship one visible improvement to your product this week and put it in your application, so a rejection still leaves you further ahead.