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Storenvy Goes From Getting Kicked Out Of YC To Raising A $5M Round

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Re: Storenvy Goes From Getting Kicked Out Of YC To Raising A $5M Round

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Post by rhizome »

NewMonarch wrote: post #9
rhizome wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's even more complicated than that: http://joncrawford.com/post/20378314843/how-i-got-kicked-out... He glosses over it, but basically he appears to be a biz guy who had lost his technical cofounders for some reason and had his (idiosyncratic and evidently tenatative) acceptance rescinded.

Hi, Jon here! Actually, I'm the technical founder. I'm a Ruby on Rails developer originally (have commits in Rails itself). The other founders were graphic design and sales. For about 6 months (post YC incident), I was doing design, engineering, customer support, and fundraising for our seed round with just the help of my wife helping out with Community and writing. Sometimes I miss those days. :)

Ah, so more or less the non tech founders. Different axis, same point. ;)

Re: Storenvy Goes From Getting Kicked Out Of YC To Raising A $5M Round

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Post by rdl »

NewMonarch wrote: post #9
rhizome wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's even more complicated than that: http://joncrawford.com/post/20378314843/how-i-got-kicked-out... He glosses over it, but basically he appears to be a biz guy who had lost his technical cofounders for some reason and had his (idiosyncratic and evidently tenatative) acceptance rescinded.

Hi, Jon here! Actually, I'm the technical founder. I'm a Ruby on Rails developer originally (have commits in Rails itself). The other founders were graphic design and sales. For about 6 months (post YC incident), I was doing design, engineering, customer support, and fundraising for our seed round with just the help of my wife helping out with Community and writing. Sometimes I miss those days. :)

Congratulations for continuing to kicking ass with your business even after the unpleasantness with YC.

Re: Storenvy Goes From Getting Kicked Out Of YC To Raising A $5M Round

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Post by crapshoot101 »

NewMonarch wrote: post #9
rhizome wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's even more complicated than that: http://joncrawford.com/post/20378314843/how-i-got-kicked-out... He glosses over it, but basically he appears to be a biz guy who had lost his technical cofounders for some reason and had his (idiosyncratic and evidently tenatative) acceptance rescinded.

Hi, Jon here! Actually, I'm the technical founder. I'm a Ruby on Rails developer originally (have commits in Rails itself). The other founders were graphic design and sales. For about 6 months (post YC incident), I was doing design, engineering, customer support, and fundraising for our seed round with just the help of my wife helping out with Community and writing. Sometimes I miss those days. :)

Hell of a story Jon - congratulations!

Re: Storenvy Goes From Getting Kicked Out Of YC To Raising A $5M Round

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Post by dcolev »

Curious -- I see a lot of baked goods for sale that look prepared from a home kitchen. Is this legal? That's assuming many of these for-sale foods are not FDA inspected. I'm not sure I would buy any baked goods from personal storefronts if it was sold out of state.

Re: Storenvy Goes From Getting Kicked Out Of YC To Raising A $5M Round

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Post by paulgb »

colkassad wrote: post #7
rm999 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just read his 'infamous' post. He explains that he got accepted, then found out he would have to change his cofounders for personal reasons. This concerned ycombinator, which changed its mind and decided not to fund him because of all the sudden changes and the fact that it was affectively a single-founder company. http://joncrawford.com/post/20378314843/how-i-got-kicked-out...

Not sure why it was called 'infamous'. Was inspiring, if anything. Good for him and his wife for doing what needed to be done.

Alexia called it 'infamous' in the TC post, I think rm999 is referring to that.

Re: Storenvy Goes From Getting Kicked Out Of YC To Raising A $5M Round

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Post by deefour »

dcolev wrote: post #14

Curious -- I see a lot of baked goods for sale that look prepared from a home kitchen. Is this legal? That's assuming many of these for-sale foods are not FDA inspected. I'm not sure I would buy any baked goods from personal storefronts if it was sold out of state.

It goes by the local government where the kitchen is. Here in Connecticut the home kitchen needs to be inspected/licensed/approved just like any other commercial kitchen.

Re: Storenvy Goes From Getting Kicked Out Of YC To Raising A $5M Round

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Post by KMuncie »

I just launched a custom store front for Storenvy that I built on Foundation 3.

http://malibusown.com/

It was more difficult than I had hoped to develop for. One of the biggest issues in my opinion right now is the lack of proper mobile support. The stores need to be responsive. With that said, I was able to have a discussion with their community manager and it sounds like they are working to make things better, no doubt this round will help greatly!

Re: Storenvy Goes From Getting Kicked Out Of YC To Raising A $5M Round

#18

Post by ericcholis »

KMuncie wrote: post #17

I just launched a custom store front for Storenvy that I built on Foundation 3. http://malibusown.com/ It was more difficult than I had hoped to develop for. One of the biggest issues in my opinion right now is the lack of proper mobile support. The stores need to be responsive. With that said, I was able to have a discussion with their community manager and it sounds like they are working to make things better, no d…

Random tip, try to run any PNG you have through a compressor like http://tinypng.org/. For example by compressing your main logo, tinypng saved you 68% of the original size.

Re: Storenvy Goes From Getting Kicked Out Of YC To Raising A $5M Round

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Post by KMuncie »

ericcholis wrote: post #18
KMuncie wrote: post #17

I just launched a custom store front for Storenvy that I built on Foundation 3. http://malibusown.com/ It was more difficult than I had hoped to develop for. One of the biggest issues in my opinion right now is the lack of proper mobile support. The stores need to be responsive. With that said, I was able to have a discussion with their community manager and it sounds like they are working to make things better, no d…

Random tip, try to run any PNG you have through a compressor like http://tinypng.org/ . For example by compressing your main logo, tinypng saved you 68% of the original size.

Ah, indeed! Thanks for the heads up!

Re: Storenvy Goes From Getting Kicked Out Of YC To Raising A $5M Round

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Post by durga »

NewMonarch wrote: post #9
rhizome wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's even more complicated than that: http://joncrawford.com/post/20378314843/how-i-got-kicked-out... He glosses over it, but basically he appears to be a biz guy who had lost his technical cofounders for some reason and had his (idiosyncratic and evidently tenatative) acceptance rescinded.

Hi, Jon here! Actually, I'm the technical founder. I'm a Ruby on Rails developer originally (have commits in Rails itself). The other founders were graphic design and sales. For about 6 months (post YC incident), I was doing design, engineering, customer support, and fundraising for our seed round with just the help of my wife helping out with Community and writing. Sometimes I miss those days. :)

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