Random question: what would you guys like to hear/know about applying (or YC in general) that's not already out there? I've been considering writing a blog post about GazeHawk's YC experience, but there are so many good ones already, and I don't want to just add redundancy. Anything unanswered from a startup perspective you'd like to know?
Applications Open For Summer 2011 YC Funding Cycle
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#12Already? Wow... it feels like just yesterday applications were open for Winter
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Re: Applications Open For Summer 2011 YC Funding Cycle
#14My co-founder and I are looking to apply but it looks like I might have a baby due during the 3-months-in-SV stage and hence need to be close to base (Australia). Looks like I'll be hanging out for the following round. Good luck to everyone applying!
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#15PG, if we make a product worth more than 1B, we can be included in the current winter session as an exception?
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#16Does YC usually only accept new (i.e. early stage startup) companies? We've been online for almost 8 years now, and we have a new product we're really excited about. We already have demo code for the new product, not to mention an existing product that we've been selling since we started. So for us, the mentoring and feedback from other founders and YC would be invaluable, much more so then any investment (we're already self funded).
Just curious if there is anyone that has gone through YC with an established company, and how that worked out for you.
Thanks!
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#17even if you're not interested in YC, i recommend going through the questions yourself.
they are a great way to methodically think about your team and ideas (like "What do you understand about your business that other companies in it just don't get?")
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#18Does YC usually only accept new (i.e. early stage startup) companies? We've been online for almost 8 years now, and we have a new product we're really excited about. We already have demo code for the new product, not to mention an existing product that we've been selling since we started. So for us, the mentoring and feedback from other founders and YC would be invaluable, much more so then any investment (we're alre…
If you have a company which has been established for eight years, do you really want to give up six percent of it just to get a bit of advice?
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#19Is it acceptable if a co-founder cannot move to Bay Area for the summer?
EDIT: As someone pointed out on IM, it's acceptable but we're expected to mention it in #9.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
We often fund people on their second or third try. Dropbox was Drew Houston's second try. I believe PagerDuty holds the record; that company was their fourth.
For PagerDuty, what changed between their first and fourth try?
I believe the team was the same for every application - a smart group of guys.