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> We took our $400 travel reimbursement check from YC and > used that as seed capital for Grouper I once returned a book to Amazon. If I used that money to
by biot 15y ago
> We took our $400 travel reimbursement check from YC and
> used that as seed capital for Grouper
I once returned a book to Amazon. If I used that money to fund a startup, it'd be rather disingenuous to call that Amazon-funded. Makes for a good headline though.
That aside, it sounds like a fantastic idea.
- metellus 15y ago> Co-founders Jerry Guo and Michael Waxman like to joke > that Grouper is a Y Combinator-funded startup. They're not actually claiming to be funded by Y Combinator. Betabeat's headline didn't mention YC either.
- biot 15y agoThe HN title used to be: "YC-Funded Despite Rejection". It has since been updated to match the Betabeat headline.
- bryanlarsen 15y agoThere's a good chance that it cost them less than $400 to travel to YC, so there might be a tiny kernel of truth to the statement.