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    The difference is most other food-delivery services tap into an already built-in delivery infrastructure.

Is this true? Seems like every modern food delivery company (DoorDash, et al) does this.

This is something I've been thinking about too. Perhaps when the SEC laws finally change...

Met Qasar at Startup School last year. He was happy to talk about my idea and even gave his e-mail for me to follow up. Down to earth guy and super approachable.

Not sure where you got the number 50 from. There's a list of all of the full-time partners on the site[1], adding the ones today for 17, plus another handful of part-time partners (6 or so?).

As far as I know, the partners help choose the startups to fund and advise them. I don't think they invest their own money (except maybe after Demo Day[2]), but choose how to invest YC's money at the start of each batch.

[1] http://www.ycombinator.com/partners/

[2] http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-yc-partner-investment-policy

Great, thanks!

Weren't Dalton, Alexis, and Qasar already part-time partners? Little confusing... Awesome nonetheless.

The thing is, backers are getting nothing for their contribution. But the team didn't create nothing, they created a ton of art assets and code. It might have little market value, but to the contributors it's better than nothing.

What if the community decided to try to finish the game themselves? Would be interesting.

They should release the unfinished game and source code/assets to backers as a sort of liquidation.

   The email was so short, but it instantly changed all that we were about to do with our company in the following months.

Is YC sending emails instead of phone calls for acceptances now?

Are you implementing each card by hand? I was going to make something like this and was just going to regex match all of the cards (from HearthPwn). It seemed like there were few enough variations to make something like that possible.

Curious if you already tried automating it.

  Who will be happy to charge you by the number of devices you can connect.

ISPs (used to) do that. The solution has always been to use your own router in front of the modem. Sounds like a similar solution would work here.

Startup = Growth[1]. If you can't find growth, pivot or quit it.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

One thing that I would like to see is multiple process support. At least once per day, one tab will become unresponsive (for seemingly no reason) and I have to kill the entire editor and reopen it.

They claim the physical copies are encrypted [1].

[1] http://blog.coinbase.com/post/33197656699/coinbase-now-stori...

It sounds like Apoorva was rejected several times in the same time frame before anyone actually bothered to look at his product, and now it's an iconic YC company.

The key lesson for entrepreneurs is: Even if you actually build it, investors and accelerators (YC included) are still likely to be wrong and/or not care about it. Shockingly wrong.

(It also sounds like Garry deserves a significant chunk of that 7% for uncovering that diamond)

It's buried in the original post, but a great resource for all things hexagonal grids is http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/

Sorry for the confusion! By the end of the 8 weeks, you will have created your own iPhone game. We assume some programming experience (that you've used e.g. Java or Python, and are familiar with Object Oriented Programming) and teach you what you need to know about Objective-C, Xcode, and Cocos2D to be productive.

Hello! I'm one of the developers for the Online Academy. We decided to do this because we had a lot of interest for our in-person Summer program but not enough room for everyone who wanted to join. Rather than turn a bunch of really awesome people away, we decided to offer a smaller online version that anyone can take.

I'm happy to answer any questions!

A company whose chairman and CEO is a lawyer.

Palo Alto. I use nothing but Instacart.

WebRTC works as a transport mechanism, but does Firefox actually allow for screen capture?

I think that puts YC at around 19 full time and part time partners. I'd bet S14 is going to be the largest yet.

What was your solution to Django's unreliable collectstatic?

They went through YC S11 as Yardsale, and pivoted to FOBO.

Any plans for a WebFlow style editor for e-mail? That would be awesome.

Awesome post. Thanks Zac!

Got a chance to meet Randall at the YC interviews. Great guy. Congrats and good luck!

The page only lists full time partners. There are many more part timers.

pg, it seems like switching from non-profit to for-profit doesn't work.

Congratulations Sam! Can you share a little bit about how you plan on growing YC?