Is today going to be the first test of the handshake protocol?
Today Is Y Combinator W13 Demo Day
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#12Is there a live feed of this? Or is there a video of it I can watch after work?
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#13Wish https://angel.co/y-combinator had a better portfolio by batches.
Here is one that seems to be pretty accurate
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#14Wish https://angel.co/y-combinator had a better portfolio by batches.
I have been keeping an index of companies from the current batch as they launch, with short descriptions and web traffic stats. Right now 27 of the 47 companies have already publicly launched (mostly on TechCrunch). I will update this throughout the day:
http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/preliminary-yc-index-...
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#15Is there a live feed of this? Or is there a video of it I can watch after work?
No, YC have never to my knowledge published or recorded video of the pitches. I doubt they would either - it would increase the stress on the participants, and often the investor pitches include commercially sensitive information.
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#16Is there a live feed of this? Or is there a video of it I can watch after work?
The YC Demo Day is a private gathering. From descriptions I've read,
it's essentially just the founders of the given batch and "accredited
investors" (in US legal parlance, I believe "accredited investor" means
having a net worth greater than 1 million or a yearly income in excess
of 250K, but I'm not a lawyer so I might be wrong). On past Demo Days,
at least there was one, trusted, member of the "press" from techcrunch
at the event. One of the problems with Demo Day is not all of the
companies are publicly announced when it happens and they want to keep
working in "stealth mode" while raising capital. Said trusted person
from the press is told which companies they can and can't write about.
Though the world could probably learn a lot from videos of the pitches on Demo Day, I sincerely doubt they will ever be released to the public.
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#17Is there a live feed of this? Or is there a video of it I can watch after work?
No, YC have never to my knowledge published or recorded video of the pitches. I doubt they would either - it would increase the stress on the participants, and often the investor pitches include commercially sensitive information.
Ah, you're right about the commercially sensitive information.
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#18Is today going to be the first test of the handshake protocol? http://ycombinator.com/hdp.html
I've heard people have already started using it actually.
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#19Wish https://angel.co/y-combinator had a better portfolio by batches.
I have been keeping an index of companies from the current batch as they launch, with short descriptions and web traffic stats. Right now 27 of the 47 companies have already publicly launched (mostly on TechCrunch). I will update this throughout the day: http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/preliminary-yc-index-...
At the moment (before today's Demo Day starts), 30 of 47 are public.
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#20YC should organize a mini-demo day the day after demo for all of these exciting companies to give small presentations on what they're working on. It would be very interesting for other startups to watch, and would give a lot of very much needed publicity to these companies.
I think a "YC-Demo Day" youtube video would generate a fairly enormous amount of traffic and publicity (and be interesting to watch)!