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Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 2

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Re: Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 2

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Post by IshKebab »

firtoz wrote: post #12

I 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.…

It's because ideas are the easy part. How many people thought of Uber before it existed? Probably everyone that has ever had to book a taxi.

Re: Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 2

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Post by elkynator »

fnord123 wrote: post #5
elkynator wrote: post #3

I can say that Tandem is the one which strikes me the most. I had a privilege to test the product in early beta and you can see the benefit of such solution. Basically Discord for work which I believe will be adopted soon by many companies.

>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.

You can listen to founder's vision and idea about the product on the podcast I run.

https://insideremote.io/episodes/episode-2-power-of-synchron...

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Post by pnongrata »

maffydub wrote: post #33
ed_blackburn wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazed you can trademark a slang word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(slang)

I don't think it's just the word - I think it's the combination of the word and the usage. If your "GitStart" startup was intended to help "unpleasant, silly, incompetent, annoying, senile, elderly or childish person[s]" to start doing something, I think you'd have no problems from a trademark perspective. If your "GitStart" startup is to help people start doing something with Git, the (trademark-ed) source code mana…

If GitHub was granted an exclusive word trademark, then copying some or all of it should result in an accepted opposition by the USPTO. It doesn't matter if the offender company is in another segment, since GitHub is a notorious trademark (i.e. if you try to trademark MacHair for a hair salon, you will get sued by Apple and/or Macdonald's).

However, I don't think it's the case, since the word GIT has been used by other entities long before GitHub came to be. Otherwise, we wouldn't have GitLab, for instance.

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Post by maffydub »

tim333 wrote: post #35
maffydub wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it's just the word - I think it's the combination of the word and the usage. If your "GitStart" startup was intended to help "unpleasant, silly, incompetent, annoying, senile, elderly or childish person[s]" to start doing something, I think you'd have no problems from a trademark perspective. If your "GitStart" startup is to help people start doing something with Git, the (trademark-ed) source code mana…

I think GitHub might have problems suing GitStart or other Git- names as they didn't invent Git. It was Linus of course who did.

Agreed - it would probably be the Software Freedom Conservancy, if anyone.

See https://git-scm.com/about/trademark for their policy on this.

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Post by toxicFork »

kirso wrote: post #32
atlasunshrugged wrote: post #19

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I recently heard about Antler, how is the programme?

Its focus is different. Pre-YC where you need to find a co-founder, ideate and validate asap.

Yes, forming the team, ideating, validating, then preparing for a seed round, then with traction or other metrics for another round

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Post by sidcool »

pgt wrote: post #40

MyPetrolPump is genius. It's last-mile delivery for gas (or Uber for gas), but solving a security and logistics problem for a high-value market. Only qualified truck drivers can move trucks, and you pay them per hour. So now you refuel the trucks behind closed doors while the truck is parked overnight and you only have to secure access for the petrol driver.

I feel there is also a room for mobile superchargers. They can come to your house and fully charge your car in half an hour, rather than waiting for hours on home voltage.

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Post by jerrre »

m0zg wrote: post #18
ignoramous wrote: post #17

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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.

Isn't that the whole VC model? 1 big success pays for 99 failures? I think it's more about what could happen if one blows up, than about how big the chance is that it will.

Re: Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 2

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Post by YeahSureWhyNot »

pgt wrote: post #40

MyPetrolPump is genius. It's last-mile delivery for gas (or Uber for gas), but solving a security and logistics problem for a high-value market. Only qualified truck drivers can move trucks, and you pay them per hour. So now you refuel the trucks behind closed doors while the truck is parked overnight and you only have to secure access for the petrol driver.

not for American market. average car tanks takes 30-50 dollars of gas. markup on gas prices is really small around 15%. if sold at market prices profit from each delivery will be 4-6 dollars. cost of delivery will be around $20-30 dollars when you count driver salary, truck lease, fuel, etc. Fuel delivery has been done in US profitably for very long time. its delivery of heating oil to houses but during every delivery they sell a few hundred gallons of oil and thats when the low margins start adding up, $40 delivery won't cut it.
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