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August 18, 2012 11:00 pm GMT
Editors note: Apoorva Mehta is the founder of YC-backed Instacart, a startup that's taking on 1-hour grocery delivery. He previously worked on supply chain infrastructure at Amazon.com.Getting into Y-Combinator is hard enough; but getting in two months late and as a single founder is almost impossible. This is how I hacked my way in.It was June, and I decided to apply to Y-Combinator. I always wanted to go through the intense program, and I knew that getting in would dramatically improve the chances that Instacart would succeed. But there was a problem: I missed the application deadline. By over two months.
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How Instacart Hacked YC
Editors note: Apoorva Mehta is the founder of YC-backed Instacart, a startup that's taking on 1-hour grocery delivery. He previously worked on supply chain infrastructure at Amazon.com.Getting into Y-Combinator is hard enough; but getting in two months late and as a single founder is almost impossible. This is how I hacked my way in.It was June, and I decided to apply to Y-Combinator. I always wanted to go through the intense program, and I knew that getting in would dramatically improve the chances that Instacart would succeed. But there was a problem: I missed the application deadline. By over two months.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Wj_4CwctvQk/
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