here are all S19 companies
http://app.crunchdex.com/s19
Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 2
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#12I am currently participating in another accelerator in London called Antler; and I have been exposed to ideas from 70 entrepreneurs. We are presenting to investors this week.
Also I am in YC Startup School too, which allows you to see what's coming up in the world, and that's awesome too.
It's amazing to see that a significant percentage (~30%) of ideas they have come up with have been also thought of by others e.g. from the YC list independently to an uncanny extent.
Honestly it should not have caught me by surprise but it did.
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#13https://prooftrading.com/ this looks like a resume template. The "Progress" section's content is mind boggling to see.
"hire CTO" as a goal
Team capabilities star ratings...
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Basically Discord for work This was very confusing for me since I use Discord only for chat for various open source projects. Tandem is voice and video chat - the part of Discord I never use.
Interesting discussion here https://mobile.twitter.com/KateClarkTweets/status/1163918806...
I have worked remote last 5 years and there is no tool that has truly solved Information asymmetry that remote workers meet every day. How usually organizations solve this is overcommunication and keeping memos from everything but that is a huge time sink and there are always those bad apples that don't keep memos.
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#15MyPetrolPump: Bold move to start a business for ICE cars today. Those things need to be all but gone by 2040.
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#16MyPetrolPump: Bold move to start a business for ICE cars today. Those things need to be all but gone by 2040.
They might make good servicing the scooter rental business which is booming in India.
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#17What always strikes me about these lists is that if I had these ideas (and I often do), I'd discard them out of hand as non-viable. Yet people behind these startups don't mind staking years of their life on what is essentially a lottery with rather poor odds, and find passion in doing things which, at best, would make me yawn. Maybe I'm just old, I don't know.
Even folks working on the problem sometimes think it is non-viable. I question the thing I'm working on, every single day. That's just how it is, even after you commit.
If one can deliver real value to end-users, and the growth takes a phenomenal turn, then different kind of non-viable thoughts would emerge, I'm sure.
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#18What always strikes me about these lists is that if I had these ideas (and I often do), I'd discard them out of hand as non-viable. Yet people behind these startups don't mind staking years of their life on what is essentially a lottery with rather poor odds, and find passion in doing things which, at best, would make me yawn. Maybe I'm just old, I don't know.
Even folks working on the problem sometimes think it is non-viable. I question the thing I'm working on, every single day. That's just how it is, even after you commit. If one can deliver real value to end-users, and the growth takes a phenomenal turn, then different kind of non-viable thoughts would emerge, I'm sure.
But the thing is, I'm actually pretty certain there's close to zero value in the solid 3/4 of these ideas. I concede that maybe I just don't see it, but statistically my odds of being right are much better than theirs.
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#19I am currently participating in another accelerator in London called Antler; and I have been exposed to ideas from 70 entrepreneurs. We are presenting to investors this week. Also I am in YC Startup School too, which allows you to see what's coming up in the world, and that's awesome too. It's amazing to see that a significant percentage (~30%) of ideas they have come up with have been also thought of by others e.g.…
I recently heard about Antler, how is the programme?
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#20I'm quite curious about Waves. There have been a number of unsuccessful attempts (that I'm aware of) to make a dating site/app with kink matching, but it's hard to keep the emphasis on sexual compatibility from completely overwhelming the other aspects of dating.
Looking at their site, there doesn't appear to be any obvious secret sauce (the app is not available where I am) except perhaps that the range of 'kinks' they're catering to is limited to the mildest and most popular, so maybe they're targeting a slightly more mainstream userbase?