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I don't know the first thing about how a business in the space operates. Can someone fill me in on why a startup like this would go through YC? How are $120k
by haberman 11y ago
I don't know the first thing about how a business in the space operates. Can someone fill me in on why a startup like this would go through YC? How are $120k and Silicon Valley connections going to help a startup in this space in the slightest?
- jzwinck 11y agoWe are all here reading and thinking about it. And SV taken as a whole eats its own dog food: I was amazed the first time I worked with a YC company how many other nearby startups they used as vendors. If you think about Boom as part of an ecosystem, they will eventually need a large number of companies to buy seats on their planes. As with Concorde, only a minority of seats will be saleable to individual consumers. Now Boom, they're here, getting name recognition at hundreds of SV companies, some of which will have offices in London, Singapore (where Concorde also briefly flew), etc.
- tim333 11y agoI don't have details but the Boom CEO is positive: >YC has been awesome and supportive in so many ways, far beyond money. 5 stars, would do again!! :-) YC have a lot of knowledge, connections and name recognition