Y-Combinator

How do I best hide the fact that I'm a failure at life and I've been too lazy to put my programming skills to work so far from these guys, and get them to give me money and move to gay francisco?

Just tell them you've read all of w(p)GtR and that you outgrew Reddit while it was still like ``old Slashdot''. You're a shoe-in.

YC doesn't really care about experience so much as ideas. Most of their startups fail so they don't even bother trying to ensure their success. The money they lose is chump change compared to what they gain when one takes off. It's really not that much money: $60K/year split between two or more founders and the cost of operation ain't shit. They do it mainly for the prestige of being a Silicon Valley ``insider''.

If you're lazy though, you may want to reconsider. I received an investment once and blew it all before I finished writing barely anything. Yeah, it's free money if you want to take the moral low ground, but I felt like shit, and it could potentially sued for investment fraud and go to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.

>>3
No one pounds your ass in Federal prison.

>>3
It's more the "prestige" than the money. And an excuse to move over there.

My laziness is more an issue about having nothing in github to show for, than potentially not doing anything with the money.

>>2
What if I say I've read SICP and outgrew 4chan?

>>5
Well the douchebags who want to see your github are the ones spending their VC money. The VCs just want to see your ideas, your proposal, and be satisfied that you have delusions of grandeur of becoming the next Steve Jobs.

>>6
If only the university didn't make me sign some shitty disclosure to keep the damn thesis code out of public eye for three years, I could've placed something that made it look like my competence made up for the slight... issues with the idea. I guess I should work on the delusions of grandeur part.

>>1
You dont have to be a programmer to get picked up by YC. Go to techcofounder.com and find a technical partner. I warn you, these guys are assholes if they think you are just another "idea guy" with dreams of another FB spinoff, so you should have a website or documentation you can show them in your pitch emails.

Do they invest in non-US-based startups?

>>9
no, because aside from US and its master, glorious Israel, everyone else are poor niggers.  AND THAT'S THE WAY IT SHOULD BE, FAGGOTS.

>>9
No. Because investors are Jewish and Jews want to keep all other countries down.

US impedes even the countries themselves from doing any serious investments or else it bombs them.

>>11
Rabbi Ovadia explained the reasons for this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovadia_Yosef
In an October 2010 sermon, Yosef stated that "The sole purpose of non-Jews is to serve Jews". He said that Gentiles served a divine purpose: "Why are Gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why Gentiles were created."[34] In the same article on the Jerusalem Post, according to the journalist who interviewed him, Yosef compared Gentiles to donkeys whose life has the sole purpose to serve the master: “In Israel, death has no dominion over them... With gentiles, it will be like any person – they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one’s donkey would die, they’d lose their money. This is his servant... That’s why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew."

"Gentiles were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel."[35]

>>9

No. You can do one of the following though:

1. Get picked up by a US based startup. Suck their dick and maybe they'll go through the trouble of getting you a Visa, if you are eligible.

2. Try your luck somewhere else. There are startup scenes in Berlin, and London too however they differ a lot from the bay area startup scene.

3. Actually bootstrap your startup. I mean, most startups are web based and could easily be bootstrapped using personal capital and small investments or through crowd sourcing or whatever else. Of course you won't get to pay yourself 100K/year and blow all your VC's money but if you do that, your reputation is fucked.

>>13
Get picked up by a US based startup. Suck their dick and maybe they'll go through the trouble of getting you a Visa, if you are eligible.
US is the main enemy of any other country, besides Israel. Getting a Visa there should be considered as betrayal. I.e. working for US, you work against every other goyim.

>>14
I.e. any person with US green-card should be seen as a traitor and evil shabbos-goyim.

>>10
>>12
Shalom! Kikes are the true and original racists.

>>16
Optimize your quotes, Ahmed.

>>9
It's a bit complicated, but yes
http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2012/02/what-visa-type-do-you-need-exactly-to-legally-participate-in-y-combinator/

I don't know how exactly the Y-combinator ends up at a fixed point for an arbitrary function. Or how efficient the construct is in terms of stack space and function creation, for whatever environment.

>>9
>>13
Oh fuck, I should have researched this better. I am out of US as well.

>>8
I have two other decent programmer cofounders, and I am a good programmer too it's just that I don't have much beyond my word to show for it, I can't put my best work on github and the rest I have are school projects. They also ask shit like "what was the one time you hacked a (non-computer) system to your benefit" or "tell us about your greatest achievement other than this startup". I haven't really done anything exciting or interesting.

Well I did mildly poison one guy who was a major nuisance to me, but I don't think I should confess that on record.

>>20
You sound like a really boring person.

>>21
I am, but I don't suppose my funders need to know that. Unless a lifetime of basement dwelling is a plus...

What's the average age of people you fund?
About 26. A lot of people think it's younger because the press especially like to write about young founders.
Fuck!
I'm 26 and I have no experience starting startups up yet.