HENRIK ZILLMER

You can't do everything yourself. As an entrepreneur, you have thousands of ideas you want to try out, but with only two hands, you need people to help you. The faster you get those ideas knocked out (or confirmed) the faster you get to the right product... · Book early: Once you can choose a time for your interview, choose one of the first interview days. Why? YC is interviewing 500+ startups in a week. After each day, they inform the startups from that day, if they got in (phone call) or out (email). So you get an answer the same day! If YC want to invest, they will invest. They don't have a daily maximum they can accept. This theoretically means, that the entire batch can be full after the first day[1]. Even though there is no limit to the batch sizes of YC, they likely won't accept 500+ startups in one batch (…yet). So you don't want to be on the last day after 99 startups already been accepted and all the YC partners are tired, hard to impress and thinking of the few remaining..