mwseibel

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by mwseibel 11y ago
hmm - yes that is much much harder - why do you want to handle the product in house?
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by mwseibel 11y ago
The fundraising process of often about creating leverage over investors. Companies need to think about raising VC rounds (and large angel rounds) as a reward for creating a growing product in a multi-billion dollar market. Also many compa
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by mwseibel 11y ago
What is your cost for acquiring a booking from Facebook and how much money do you make from that booking? For your user testing - what was one part of the product that at least 3 people found confusing? Do you make account sign up painful
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by mwseibel 11y ago
you're welcome :)
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by mwseibel 11y ago
How are you driving traffic to the site and what are your conversion metrics? Have you done face to face user tests with at least 5 random people? Do people have to book right at that time or do you give them the ability to save/shar
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by mwseibel 11y ago
Feel free to ask your question :)
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by mwseibel 11y ago
This sounds like a cool idea - when do you plan on launching your v1?
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by mwseibel 11y ago
I think there are angels that are willing to invest - https://getmeadow.com/ is a YC company and they were able to raise an angel round - I think its helpful to look like a typical tech startup with strong engineering on th
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by mwseibel 11y ago
Feel free to ask your questions :)
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by mwseibel 11y ago
Thanks for the note - can you tell me more about the business? How much traction - which cities in Europe do you support? What is the ideal usecase for your product?
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by mwseibel 11y ago
We are attempting to make YC more accessible to everyone. Looking at the people who have historically applied to YC - we feel the need to do extra work to reach out to specific communities that are historically under represented in the val
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by mwseibel 11y ago
thanks!
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by mwseibel 11y ago
AWS isnt paying us
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by mwseibel 11y ago
Apply :)
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by mwseibel 11y ago
We have a lot of experience reading applications so it doesn't take us too long
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by mwseibel 11y ago
Feel free to apply as many times as you'd like
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by mwseibel 11y ago
We feel comfortable with this
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by mwseibel 11y ago
We are looking for folks who are actively working on their startups. Having a technical co-founder is helpful, working full time is helpful, and trying to solve a large problem is helpful.
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by mwseibel 11y ago
Hey folks - Kat and I so excited to announce this new program - happy to answer any questions
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by mwseibel 11y ago
In the larger context of YC outreach to thousands of founders a year why is a special program for targeted outreach creating harm?
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by mwseibel 11y ago
I mentioned this below point below - but I'll make it again here. We do tons and tons of outreach at YC. We meet/talk to thousands of founders a year. With open office hours our goal was to have a way to do targeted outreach wh
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by mwseibel 11y ago
You are correct - we should have used the word Latino
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by mwseibel 11y ago
To be clear - these are office hours - YC is still the same program for all who participate in it. Regardless of their background.
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by mwseibel 11y ago
I think you can't look at open office hours in a vacuum. YC does tons of outreach - for example: college tour, startup school, Stanford startup class, speaking at conferences around the world, blog posts with advice to founders, etc.
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by mwseibel 11y ago
You make some really good points here. Here are my thoughts: members of these groups (race, sex, nationality) are being identified and negative stereotypes are being applied to them everyday. There has the be a distinction between giving p
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by mwseibel 11y ago
Sorry - yes military veterans
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by mwseibel 11y ago
That's a good idea!
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by mwseibel 11y ago
This is open to all people trying to start tech startups
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by mwseibel 11y ago
Yes!
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by mwseibel 11y ago
Agree with Sam's comment on this thread - we should do both

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