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Did the product improve between TechStars and YC? Or did the YC team see something in you that the others didn't 'get'?

we learned nothing from our rejections (other than the willpower to withstand rejection), and continued building our product.

I think we didn't get into TechStars because we were still wrapping up school. YC probably would have rejected us too.

It was also because you hadn't graduated school yet, if I remember correctly from your interviews (e.g. This Week in Startups).