fbFund Decision Email from Facebook (Rejection Email)
Posted on January 30, 2008
Filed Under Facebook
At last, they did reply me on the fbFund status since it’s released.
Thank you for submitting an fbFund application. We’re seeing a tremendous response to fbFund, and have already reviewed many strong proposals. Your proposals and the response from the developer community have also helped us refine the focus for fbFund. While this direction will no doubt change from time to time, your proposal unfortunately did not fit within our current focus for this immediate set of grantees.
This doesn’t mean that we don’t believe in your application nor that it can’t be successful. As your application evolves, we encourage you to reapply for a grant – there is no limit on how many times you can apply for a grant, and each funding cycle represents a new opportunity to receive a grant.
For more information on fbFund and the funding process, as well as more information about what we look for in a proposal, please see http://developers.facebook.com
/fbFund.php .
We wish you the best of luck as you build your business, and hope to hear from you again in the future.
Cheers,
The fbFund team
For your information, I did applied for the fbFund last year. But ever since, no news from Facebook at all.
From a lot of bloggers response, I didn’t see anybody being accepted. A lot of bloggers cover the stories about being got rejected. It includes in a Facebook Developer Discussion Board.
I quoted some:
Frankly, it’s been so long since we applied for Facebook fund that the email today made me dig through my Sent folder in search of fbFund definition. So we have been rejected for fbFund. If you are thinking “what the heck is fbFund?” it was the grant offered by Facebook back in September via some tech blog (ReadWriteWeb, mashable or similar). The idea was to provide incentives for developers and companies to start developing FB applications. The grant promised anywhere between 20K to 250K per application for a total of $10 in “free money”. The only requirement was to send an email to platform@facebook.com and provide a compelling reason why they should give you the money.
Well three months later we got an email telling us that all our applications will be wiped out and that if we seriously considered applying for the grant we would need to re-apply using the new application form designed by FB and Accel partners. This apparently happened to all applicants, not just us.
Even the fbFund team also responded:
I’m sorry that this process has been so unfriendly this round. Like everything else at Facebook, the fbFund grant program is an iterative process, and we’re working hard to make it better. I’m particularly sorry about the delay on this initial round — since it was the first round of funding, we wanted to make sure that every proposal got the consideration it deserved. We’re constantly fine-tuning the process to make it better, and I think you’ll see improvements as we learn what works.
For more information on how the process works and what we’re looking for, please check out http://developers.facebook.com/fbFund.php .
We value our developers immensely, and are trying to figure out how to efficiently scale out a program that will support them. If you have specific feedback, we’d love to hear it at fbFund@facebook.com.
thanks,
Ami Vora
the fbFund team
Ah, MySpace, I’m chasing after you for your Slingshot Labs. Can’t wait for 5th February 2008. I’d already registered with their MySpace Developer Program. So, if there’s any latest news, I’ll be informed.
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