"... Are there any examples of husband/wife teams in successful startups? ..." Sure, Trotts of MT & SixApart ~ http://www.sixapart.com/about/corner/ http://www

"... Are there any examples of husband/wife teams in successful startups? ..." Sure, Trotts of MT & SixApart ~ http://www.sixapart.com/about/corner/ http://www.sixapart.com/about/corner/ "... but how does YC generally look at this type of situation ..." Who cares? ... More to the point it's unethical if your team is discriminated against because of marriage. Look, yc play the good guys of the VC world ( read here http://ycombinator.com/about.html http://ycombinator.com/about.html and here why ~ http://ycombinator.com/about.html http://ycombinator.com/about.html ) I'd worry about the basics of how you build things and all the other things that go to build a startup before worrying about this issue. Instead worry about .... - this http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html - and this http://paulgraham.com/die.html http://paulgraham.com/die.html