katm

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YC New Year's B2B Buying Guide(ycb2bguide.com)
12 points by katm 9y ago|4 comments
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YC Is Visiting India Oct 23-27(blog.ycombinator.com)
2 points by katm 9y ago|0 comments
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What Y Combinator Looks for in Nonprofits(blog.ycombinator.com)
3 points by katm 9y ago|0 comments
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by katm 9y ago
If we're not coming to your city/school this fall and you'd like us to visit next year, you can tell us here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf87KZD8Ugj2Iy-ewFh... .
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by katm 9y ago
There are 18 companies with a solo founder in this batch.
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by katm 9y ago
The Brazilian company is bxblue. https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/18/bxblue/
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by katm 9y ago
* We ask for gender on our applications, but we haven't asked for race/ethnicity, which is why we don't have the answer to your first question. * We see that it does for female founders. * Total number of submissions * Gender
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by katm 9y ago
Another thing I've been curious about is how many of the founders had student loans when they started the company. I'd bet that student loans hold a lot of people back. I just paid mine off last year.
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by katm 9y ago
Well said.
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YC Female Founders Conference 2017(blog.ycombinator.com)
5 points by katm 9y ago|1 comments
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by katm 10y ago
We donated money, are advising on technical projects and are connecting with them technical volunteers on a number of projects they're working on. When we announced we were working with the ACLU, over 1,500 people in our community vol
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by katm 10y ago
I recently tallied up the schools that founders from our Summer 2016 batch went to, and they attended over 180. There are many schools on that list that most people haven't heard of.
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by katm 10y ago
Hah, thanks for catching. Fixed.
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by katm 10y ago
Not in the next month. But that doesn't mean we won't try to make it out sometime this year.
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by katm 10y ago
No requirement. But why not try something different if the first version doesn't work well?
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by katm 10y ago
I'm calling out the schools this time because when I submitted a post titled "YC Winter Tour 2016" last year, this is how it performed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10881402 .
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by katm 10y ago
We do office hours in cities that anyone is welcome to sign up for. We're also going to be opening up signups for the MOOC shortly that anyone anywhere is welcome to participate in.
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by katm 10y ago
We try to mix it up. Here's where we went last winter: https://blog.ycombinator.com/winter-2016-college-tour/ . And last fall: https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-office-hours-in-11-countries...
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by katm 10y ago
We announced the visit to NC State last year: https://blog.ycombinator.com/winter-2016-college-tour/
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YC at Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UPenn(blog.ycombinator.com)
46 points by katm 10y ago|93 comments
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by katm 10y ago
I talk to a lot of international founders and one of the biggest obstacles they face is fundraising. In some places, it's easy to raise seed, but hard once you hit Series A territory. In other places, it's even hard raising seed.
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Recommend a Founder for YC(blog.ycombinator.com)
112 points by katm 10y ago|113 comments
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by katm 10y ago
You can be cynical about us bringing in the ACLU, but in the words of Maya Angelou: “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
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Welcome, ACLU(medium.com)
1558 points by katm 10y ago|1030 comments
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Welcome Daniel, Nicole, Stephanie, Steven and Tatyana(blog.ycombinator.com)
12 points by katm 10y ago|1 comments
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HiOperator (YC S16) Provides Customer Support as a Service(blog.ycombinator.com)
69 points by katm 10y ago|30 comments
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by katm 10y ago
It's on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ycombinator/how-to-build-the-future-m...
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How to Build the Future(themacro.com)
6 points by katm 10y ago|1 comments
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by katm 10y ago
We'll send out invites on August 26.
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by katm 10y ago
Correct! We'll put the streaming link up on http://www.startupschool.org/ that morning.

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