sorry if this a dumb question: my cofounder and I are working on a app that we plan to release in South East Asia (i.e. India) because of what we believe is a better market fit as well as product positioning - does applying to this program make sense if our goal isn't (in the near term) to release this app in the US? Would we still be eligible for the equity funding?
YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course
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#172Just submitted my application, regardless if I make it in or not I'm really excited to follow along with the videos
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#174Cool. This is timely for me. I launched https://nanagram.co about 8 months ago. We help people send printed photos in the mail to their grandparents with a text message. I've been bootstrapping it with contract work in parallel but I'd like to focus on it full-time. Customers seem to truly love it and it's the happiest thing I've ever created. I'm thinking about putting together a family and friends round to focus fu…
Cool service! I could see myself using this to have hard-copy pictures conveniently mailed to myself. There's nothing like having physical copies you can touch.
Thank you. That's been one of the surprising moments of the project. While debugging the captions feature I started sending a set of the photos to myself every month. Now my fridge is covered with fresh photos of people I love, like it's 1995. Way better than pixels.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oops, good point. We'll change that soon. Will update here once done. Edit: good to go now.
I applied with the low character requirements; I assumed you were encouraging brevity for the sake of the reviewers. Should I reapply or will it not have a large impact on admission decisions?
Apparently, you can update your application before the deadline, Aug 13th.
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#176Hi, I'm Adora, a YC partner, and will be helping out with the course. Very excited to meet and work with everyone. Happy to answer any questions.
Hi Adora, Do you need to already have a cofounder to be accepted into the online startup school? Thanks
Nope, we will accept solo founders.
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#177sorry if this a dumb question: my cofounder and I are working on a app that we plan to release in South East Asia (i.e. India) because of what we believe is a better market fit as well as product positioning - does applying to this program make sense if our goal isn't (in the near term) to release this app in the US? Would we still be eligible for the equity funding?
Still makes sense, and you'll be eligible as long as you complete the course. One of our goals for Startup School is to help founders beyond the Silicon Valley and US. Great entrepreneurs are everywhere.
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#178I saved a very rough draft of my application but now, when I return to startupschool.org, it shows me the "Thank you for applying to Startup School!" message. Should I be worried? Or can I still edit my application via "Settings"?
You should be able to edit your profile and company details when you log in.
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#179UI suggestion: Just Say No to multi-page forms that require you to submit the first page of (personal) information before being allowed to see questions on subsequent pages.
Alternatively, I hate filling out a whole form that requires for a bunch of info and then asks for way too much personal info at the end. I'd rather know what they need upfront so I can decide on whether to fill out the form at all.
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#180Hi Adora, Do you need to have a co-founder to get into the online startup school?
Not Adora here, you don't need a co-founder to join startup school.