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Y Combinator
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“Then the second part of that was when we were accepted into Y Combinator and StartX in the summer of 2012 where we actually went from just putting in a little bit of our own money and working in the evenings to having a good excuse to take a leave of absence from school and actually work on it because we had now had some money to do the development process.”
From Sanjay Dastoor“That is really interesting because in 2012, Y Combinator was very much heavy on technology, and I think that now they've broadened up a little bit more their scope.”
From Sanjay Dastoor“Pebble which was the first, so Pebble was a Y Combinator company.”
From Sanjay Dastoor“You should apply to Y Combinator."”
From Sanjay Dastoor“I said, "No, no. That's actually a good fit for us. They do software. We're doing hardware. It's completely different."”
From Sanjay Dastoor“So, what was the process of capitalizing the business because I know that Y Combinator has the Demo Day, and that gives a nice boost on the fundraising front, so how did things kickstart for you guys on the financing side?”
From Sanjay Dastoor“And great folks again that you guys onboarded. Accel, Y Combinator, SV Angels, Menlo Ventures, Maven.”
From Sanjay Dastoor“Why did you go to Y Combinator again?”
From Sanjay Dastoor“Y Combinator was actually a great forcing function for us as a company to get in good habits.”
From Sanjay Dastoor“Many people I had spoken to who had done Y Combinator a second time had said you learn different things going through a second time, but it was very valuable, and they would do it again if given the choice.”
From Sanjay Dastoor“When we were looking at whether to do this, actually one of the people who inspired us to really push forward with this was PG who we had not been actively part of Y Combinator more recently, but we had known Trump when we had done 2012 with Boosted.”
From Sanjay Dastoor“And PG for the ones that are listening, that's Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator.”
From Sanjay Dastoor“Then we tried to raise some investment capital because we’d read things like Y Combinator and TechCrunch and all these things happening in the U.S.”
From Jean Nehme“You know the style, the Y Combinator sleek loft style.”
From Jean Nehme“By the way, that book, Founders at Work, is Jessica Livingston from Y Combinator.”
From Al Goldstein“Both of them were at Y Combinator.”
From Al Goldstein“Actually, as you mentioned, [12:39] from Y Combinator with a different company after they left Enova.”
From Al Goldstein“My two co-founders, after they left Enova, went and joined Y Combinator with a different startup idea also around financial service.”
From Al Goldstein“He’s done it multiple times, been to Y Combinator, raised money, has seen his companies doing an exit; you name it.”
From Dean Sysman“It was very interesting because we went through Y Combinator, which is arguably the best accelerator in the world.”
From Dean Sysman“He’s done it multiple times, been to Y Combinator, raised money, has seen his companies doing an exit; you name it.”
From Dean Sysman“It was very interesting because we went through Y Combinator, which is arguably the best accelerator in the world.”
From Dean Sysman“When you came up with this idea where you were testing all these different concepts, were you already in Y Combinator or Y Combinator came after you had already set your eyes on this?”
From Max Rhodes (1)“You know, we decided to apply to Y Combinator almost two weeks after we decided on the idea.”
From Max Rhodes (1)“The timing was really fortuitous in a way and ended up using the Y Combinator application to develop the initial hypothesis that ultimately led to Faire.”
From Max Rhodes (1)“We actually started working fulltime on the idea, me, Marcella and Danielle (Jack had left at that point) the day that Y Combinator started.”
From Max Rhodes (1)“I think that the one that really makes sense is Y Combinator.”
From Max Rhodes (1)“I can definitely talk about what made Y Combinator so valuable for us.”
From Max Rhodes (1)“I think there's definitely a bit of selection bias where, for sure, great companies apply to Y Combinator, but I think there's a reason why you see so many great companies come out of it.”
From Max Rhodes (1)“Then we later got accepted to Y Combinator in the summer of 2011.”
From Thejo Kote
