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Alex Polvi
Co-founder and CEO Cloudkick, Inc.
When we got the acceptance email for our YC interview (Cloudkick, W09) it was prefaced with a very memorable message: You've probably noticed that the stock market crashed since the last YC cycle. We're going to keep going as we normally do, but we should warn you that we have no idea what's going to happen come Demo Day. It may be that all the startups will jump off the diving board as usual, and there will be no water in the pool.
We won't know for sure till March, but this batch of startups is probably going to have to be extra tough to survive.
Since we don't know what to expect, we're offering something new this cycle. Any group that wants to defer their interview to a future cycle will have the option to.
That's right, they were encouraging us to defer our acceptance because the market was so bad. During that class it turned out that we would all discover it was the perfect time to be starting a company. A bad market means easier time hiring devs, less competition, etc. That class was responsible for a solid class of 16 companies, including AirBnB and Cloudkick.
Back to the point of this... we did not defer the interview, and it seems like it was just yesterday. In an effort to give back to the entrepreneur community, I'd like to offer any upcoming YC candidates a 5-10min chat to prep for their interview and any other questions about the YC process.
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