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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 jerrre »

paulcole wrote: post #37
glebedel wrote: post #13

https://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...

The gigantic Our Story section reads like YC Mad Libs. > ______ is a bloated industry. It is opaque and old-fashioned, and it has not substantially improved through the technological revolution in the way other industries have, in part because there are tremendous barriers to entry for new innovative players. > ______ is taking a crack at changing ______ for the better by starting with what we know: _________________…

> hope to go live in 2020

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

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Post by freeflight »

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 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.

Imho the concept of multiple discovery [0] applies just as much to innovation as it does to scientific discoveries.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery

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

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Post by jerrre »

sidcool wrote: post #48

Is there a directory which lists how the YC starutps are doing? As in how many from 2016 batch are still around, and how many didn't make it? I am sure there has to be one around.

There is this: https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/ Not exactly what you asked, but gives some insight

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

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Post by lukethomas »

antupis wrote: post #14
creativityland wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is exactly what's happening. More meetings + synchronous chat/calling apps won't solve this either.

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Post by type-2 »

LeonM wrote: post #29
adrianN wrote: post #15

MyPetrolPump: Bold move to start a business for ICE cars today. Those things need to be all but gone by 2040.

Is getting fuel in India really such a hassle that people are willing to pay a premium to get the fuel delivered to them? How big is this market? I live in Europe, and have never been to India, so I don't know about the situation there. But personally I can't imagine paying for a service that would maybe save me 5 minutes per week.

I opened their website and they show refilling generators. In india electricity is unrelieable even in the best cities(including bangalore.) So every office and apartment has generators.

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

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Post by the-dude »

ttul wrote: post #21
glebedel wrote: post #13

https://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...

I love the transparency. The team seem to have extremely relevant skills and experience - they just are most definitely not CMOs.

What is CMO in this context?

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

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Post by lucasverra »

sidcool wrote: post #48

Is there a directory which lists how the YC starutps are doing? As in how many from 2016 batch are still around, and how many didn't make it? I am sure there has to be one around.

this is what you are looking for except S19 not yet updated https://www.ycdb.co/

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

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Post by bbd »

antupis wrote: post #14
creativityland wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What you hope to have in your opinion to solve the problem?

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

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Post by puranjay »

toxicFork wrote: post #25
atlasunshrugged wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently heard about Antler, how is the programme?

It has been very helpful for me. I am a tech guy and they have assisted in various ways for me to find a cofounder, for example with opportunities to work on mock business cases with the other people in the program, lots of time to chat and allowed us to take our time when to decide to partner up, most people teamed up after 3-4 weeks. Speaking about other people, as I mentioned it's about 72 of us, 40% ish with tech…

Slightly off-topic, but as a non-tech guy (unless you count making websites with Bootstrap as 'tech') with significant experience in the business/marketing side of things, would attending an accelerator with the intention of finding a tech co-founder help? I can self-fund a product for a few years at least so I would bring that into the equation as well.
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