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Well guys, just like the title says, I’m still early in development of my SaaS, but decided to have an LTD sale which ends soon and the results were phenomenal. And yeah, the latest YC application was a rejection. :) I started charging in August and just today crossed the $5000 revenue mark...

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I am almost done with the beta version of my product (1-2 days left). I don’t have any customers/users yet although I have a couple that said they’ll use it when I launch. I am planning on applying for w23. Should I apply now so that I can be in the early group or should I wait until I have a...

As a vanilla employee, I find it hard to know the value of startup equity. One source of uncertainty is I need to know the company's valuation. But that valuation is not real time. It was last valued in 2021. So let's say it was last valued at 100x revenue. But now the market says a more...

Hey YC community, I'd love to hear from some people who have worked on the venture side of things. I'm currently in the process of raising a pre-seed round and I've met with about 30 firms. At the moment I'm in 2nd/3rd round discussions with 8 of the firms. I'd also like to add that I've worked...

I can't say it enough. Tools like DocSend have enhanced our fundraising experience tenfold. Firstly, you get to see what people are reading and what they spend the most time on. You can revise your decks and docs based the nonverbal feedback. Secondly, you get a sense of whose interested, and...

Recently, I finished reading Hackers and Painters by PG, so this is going to be blunt, but helpful. You are warned. 🙃 There is absolutely no surefire way to guarantee that your side-project will ever be anything more than a hobby that pays for itself. But there are some surefire ways to...

Currently working an ai product that will aid in development, research and monitoring of AI. I have got a few researchers/PhDs from my university interested and they want to try it when I get it complete. I will most likely be able to get a decent ammount of PhD students from a few top ranking...

Y Combinator (YC), one of the most prestigious startup accelerators in the world, has just unveiled its latest batch of innovative startups, providing key insights into what the future might hold. Y Combinators Summer 2023 Batch In a recent post by Garry Tan, YC's president, Tan offers a...

Hi friends. We have our YC interview on Thursday. This is our second time applying. The rejection feedback on our last interview was that they wanted to see more traction. We are a B2B company that launched 7 months ago, and still have 1 client. We grew inside this customer, and signed a couple...

You have to be ✨creative✨ to get the attention of folks you want to learn from. My co-founder Raj Thaker & I (Blake Faulkner) at Crewmate (embeddable talent communities) are applying to r/ycombinator's W24 and we saw that long-time r/Twitch CEO & visiting YC group partner Emmett Shear was on...

We just had our interview today, and we haven't gotten a reply back yet and anxiously await. To help our anxiety please roast us. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JrjfaW-AzXmDWMC-kp6Huq7WNMRyC4iE/view?usp=sharing (one part is redacted because its too personal)

YC App closes on April 7th and I want to apply. I've worked for YC grad company as their growth marketing manager and was responsible for literally bringing their users to the platform. I've worked at startups Seed-Series D and managed up to $2.4m annually in marketing budget. I want to launch...

People ask me what AI software I use to send cold DMs. It’s called NI. Natural Intelligence. I’ve never responded to an AI-written cold message so why the hell would I send one? All NI. All naturale baby. In the quest to build a massive empire, you’re going to need to do a lot of unscalable...

What is a good way to do this? Do ya'll have a process, set of questions for these people when looking for a co-founder? Even if this person did some research and says they've interviewied N number of customers, etc, is there a way to differentiate them from serious potential co-founders?

Hello! I wanted to know more about the challenges and opportunities that young and student entrepreneurs face. Would love your inputs if you have experience in this domain: What are some of the biggest challenges you faced when starting your business as a student or young entrepreneur? (Lack...

I want to subscribe and be notified any time Jensen Huang is being interviewed. I don’t care who the interviewer is (i.e. what podcast he is on); I only care when he is the interviewee. I think the podcast ecosystem is organized backwards. It thinks that what I care about is Lex Fridman. The...

I still haven’t heard a decision from YC even though we applied by the deadline though we edited out application within updated recently, anyone else in the same boat? We are a SaaS AI health tech startup with an MVP and we are also in diligence with a few vC funds and in diligence for...

We have entered the last week of hearing back from YC and I am getting cold feet -- for pretty good reasons! We are a team of 4 serial entrepreneurs who submitted our application on the last day for S23. Our idea is an obvious generative AI wrapper for B2B sales, which currently operates as a...

Hi guys, Apologies if I am too ignorant on this point, however, can someone clearly explain to me how the investors would like to have a return of this 500k? Mostly in how many years? And second question2)Let’s say you collect 2 M Euro after demo day. Can you set a condition as I will share max...