Fewer than 8% of applicants get invited to Y Combinator headquarters for a nerve-fraying interview.
They might get invited to a lot of weddings but no one shows up to their funerals.
If the football players date the hottest girls, if the basketball players get invited to all the best parties, then there is a jock culture.
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And before Cinderella can get invited to this ball, it has to compete with the ever-increasing multi-million dollar media rights allocations both Michigan and Louisville get from their respective conferences.
For now though, their focus is on more mundane, but nevertheless vital matters such as the wedding dress, the flowers, and how to deal with the great and the good who don't get invited to the wedding.
Those at the top of the Klout class, whose high scores for Twittering, Facebooking, and social networking show a demonstrated ability to win over friends and influence people, get invited to exclusive parties and showered with promotions by companies hoping to benefit from a positive tweet about their product or company.
Now, I heard that there was a state dinner going on here -- and usually I get invited to the state dinners. (Laughter.) So this time I just had to crash -- (laughter) -- I had to crash the party because I did not want to miss out on all the fun.
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On the last day of their campaign, it was very nice to get invited by Jeff to participate in his Kick-a-thon and I had been thinking about how to help a bit more.
One can only assume that your article was written with diplomacy in mind so that you will get invited back again to Malaysia.
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This is where the public are invited to get involved as one of the incarnations of the main character.
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Immediately after the announcement, the invited press get to see and handle the device under the watchful eyes of Apple PR people, but a few anointed ones get to take one home with them for a week of secret testing.
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For those who might spoil the party at the country club- the hedge fund marketing feeding frenzy- it may get harder than ever to be invited.
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If I were to bet on one of these, it would be Yattos.com, despite the fact that I set up a group, invited people and failed to get any interest, including people close to the company.
Did you get hired to execute a part of a very set plan, or were you invited to shape the vision together?
To get a free account, you still must be invited by an Starting today, App.net member with a yearly account can invite people to get a free account, with no time limit.
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As Fashion Week kicks off, McCotry said, other priorities are consuming her attention, like piecing together outfits that will help her get into shows she hasn't been invited to.
The night before, our hosts invited all of the speakers and panelists to get know each other at a Grand Rapids steak house.
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Pakistan's embattled (and deeply unpopular) president, Asif Ali Zardari, was invited in the expectation that he would seal a deal to get the trucks rolling again.
To qualify, frequent fliers must meet undisclosed TSA criteria and get invited in by the airlines.
During the following two days all participants will get together to discuss possible partnerships between schools of journalism, CMCs and other invited partners such as development agencies and the United Nations.
Paul dealt with this in a crafty way:He invited spurned carriers, angry that they couldn't get enough phones, to complain directly to Irwin Jacobs, who soon caved in to the gripes and let Paul handle it.
More than 300 worried residents turned out to try to get answers, not from Exelon, the company wasn't invited, but from the federal and state agencies charged with overseeing the nuclear power plant.
Even so, as we began to hear the sound of gently tinkling water, Dhit invited us to remove our walking boots and change into our sandals: it was time to get wet.
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