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Today Is Y Combinator W13 Demo Day

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Re: Today Is Y Combinator W13 Demo Day

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Post by 2arrs2ells »

RyanZAG wrote: post #20

YC 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)!

The day after demo day is usually spent frantically setting up meetings with investors... probably not the best timing. But I do think some sort of "Show HN: YC W13" would be awesome!

Re: Today Is Y Combinator W13 Demo Day

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Post by rdl »

2arrs2ells wrote: post #21
RyanZAG wrote: post #20

YC 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)!

The day after demo day is usually spent frantically setting up meetings with investors... probably not the best timing. But I do think some sort of "Show HN: YC W13" would be awesome!

It would be fun to get ~all of the YC companies to do video clips for Startup School or something, though.

Re: Today Is Y Combinator W13 Demo Day

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Post by dmor »

jcr wrote: post #19
dmor wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I have updated to include Bitnami, Goldbely and Paytango. Is there anyone else I missed?

Re: Today Is Y Combinator W13 Demo Day

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

allsystemsgo wrote: post #17
simonw wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I wonder about "commercially sensitive" as much as "National Security". I often assume they are catch-alls that in a transparent world would be unremarkable, or cause for pressure to fix from stakeholders - I would guess there are very few things a competitor would be able to take advantage of that you could make public about a startup.

Its business model? Made public to every customer.

Its financial status? Its a start up - the status is terrible by default.

Its customer list? If Google is my customer, I am letting you know for sure.

Its source code? Yes, but I am not sure that a) that is what most people consider commercially sensitive information (ie its more an asset such as IP) and b) even if we gave the main competitor of WuFoo their git repos, the competitor would probably have to use all of the code to make much use of any of the code. Except maybe grep for swear words in the comments

Re: Today Is Y Combinator W13 Demo Day

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Post by gbelote »

swampthing wrote: post #24
reaclmbs wrote: post #22

It'd be need if somebody ran a YC Hedge Fund. I'd happily pay 2% and 20% management fees! :D

maybe wefunder can get in on the YCVC program :) all they need is ~$1m

Haha - maybe we'll do something like that for the next batch, we'll see!

We do have a few batchmates on our platform, you can always create your own index and invest in all of them. :) (Unfortunately due to regulations we can't publicly say who they are, and viewing/investing is limited to accredited investors only... for now!)

Re: Today Is Y Combinator W13 Demo Day

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Post by lisper »

reaclmbs wrote: post #22

It'd be need if somebody ran a YC Hedge Fund. I'd happily pay 2% and 20% management fees! :D

I ran such a fund for the S08 batch. It did quite well (>60% annual IRR, which was very good for an '08 fund). I wanted to make it a regular revolving fund (i.e. a new fund for every YC class), but there wasn't enough interest. Most people who angel invest want to be in control of the investment decisions, so a fund is a hard sell. Administering such a fund is non-trivial, but I would happily do it again if I could find enough interested investors. It's a great way to get started and/or diversify a relatively small investment.
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