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Content: use HTML Edit Content <h1 style="text-align: center;">title</h1> <h2>[previously]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>] POST comment: re:ycombinator interview prep</strong></li> <ol> <li>] Ask HN: question=</li> </ol></ol> <h2>[currently]</h2> <ol> <li>] &nbsp;</li> </ol> <h2>[next]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <hr /> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: center;">MY COMMENT re:interview</p> <p>&gt; NOT an alumni or past interviewee but i'll put this out there ...</p> <p>1] Paul Graham - wrote an Essay - How To prepare for the interview<br />- <a href="http://old.ycombinator.com/howtoprepare.html" target="_blank">http://old.ycombinator.com/howtoprepare.html</a>&nbsp;</p> <p>2] I created a summarized, annoted version of <strong>'Grahams essays key points' aka my TLDR</strong> <br />-&nbsp; <a href="/view/article?id=4457" target="_blank">http://sospep.com/view/article?id=4457</a> <br />- i would memorize those keypoints</p> <p>3] I also compiled a <strong>list of the 'interview questions'</strong> that they are known to ask? <br />-&nbsp; <a href="/view/steps?id=129" target="_blank">http://sospep.com/view/steps?id=129</a><br />- you/your co founders probably want to know the answer to every 1 of those questions, as they pertain to your company</p> <p>4] and a few <strong>other resources</strong>, that may be helpful to you...<br />- like ARTICLE(s) - our interview with ycombinator by ... (* x) <br />- i will add the links to the Reference section the article i posted above</p> <p>&gt; Finally, congratulations and good luck!&nbsp; <br />&nbsp;</p> <hr /> <p style="text-align: center;">yc interview prep resources</p> <p>3] I also compiled a list of the 'interview questions' that they are known to ask. <br />-&nbsp; <a href="/view/steps?id=129" target="_blank">http://sospep.com/view/steps?id=129</a>&nbsp;</p> <p>There are 100+ questions, so i have categorized each question into 1 of 4 categories to help break it down a bit.</p> <p>+ provide example/sample answers from my startups</p> <p>[SHAMELESS PRODUCT PLUG] - of course, you can use sospep to generate you own notebook of questions w</p> <p>- you/your co founders probably want to know the answer to every 1 of those questions, as they pertain to your company</p> <p>Several past interviewee's have writtern about their yc interview experience. Ive compiled a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">list of articles by&nbsp;those who succeeded</span> at the interview and those who <span style="text-decoration: underline;">did not succeed.</span>&nbsp; IMO, reading the ones who did not succeed are just as valuable as those that did succeed. Its also important to note that some who succeed in getting into YC, ultimately ended up with a failed startup and some who failed at getting into YC, ended up with a successfull startup.</p> <p>* interview questions are on the application</p> <p>+ DISCLAIMER - IANE, </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>