Y Combinator: Would he finance your idea?
With this brief note, I conclude (at least, I hope so) a series of notes where Y Combinator [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ] is more or less mentioned. The last two in the given list are directly devoted to this well-known American business incubator and its comparison with one of the Russian ones.
I have been waiting for this moment for almost half a year. It is with such frequency that the application form appears on the Y Combinator website , after filling in which the start-up applicant gets a chance to be financed by this company. It lasts there for about two months, and then disappears until the next investment period (summer or winter). And just in the period of silence I really needed this form. The fact is that the very concept of Y Combinator’s investment activity is illustrated in it.
And now you can see this form yourself. And it's not even easy to see, but to feel, that is, try to fill it up, presenting for a minute that this incubator is not working in Boston (summer) and San Francisco (winter), but, say, in Moscow and Novosibirsk that you live, for example, in Kaluga or Chelyabinsk. I advise you to do this in order, first, to feel the idea itself, and, second, to better imagine the startup climate in America.
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I really hope that this form will be reviewed and those who have categorically argued that without any “real” business plan, you cannot rely on any investor under any circumstances. As the example of Y Combinator shows, not everything and, most importantly, fortunately, it does not always fit into the Procrustean bed of academic schemes.
Those who read this note late and will no longer be able to see the application form in the original, as well as those who prefer to view it in translation with some additional explanations, can look at my iTech Bridge blog .
I have been waiting for this moment for almost half a year. It is with such frequency that the application form appears on the Y Combinator website , after filling in which the start-up applicant gets a chance to be financed by this company. It lasts there for about two months, and then disappears until the next investment period (summer or winter). And just in the period of silence I really needed this form. The fact is that the very concept of Y Combinator’s investment activity is illustrated in it.
And now you can see this form yourself. And it's not even easy to see, but to feel, that is, try to fill it up, presenting for a minute that this incubator is not working in Boston (summer) and San Francisco (winter), but, say, in Moscow and Novosibirsk that you live, for example, in Kaluga or Chelyabinsk. I advise you to do this in order, first, to feel the idea itself, and, second, to better imagine the startup climate in America.
')
I really hope that this form will be reviewed and those who have categorically argued that without any “real” business plan, you cannot rely on any investor under any circumstances. As the example of Y Combinator shows, not everything and, most importantly, fortunately, it does not always fit into the Procrustean bed of academic schemes.
Those who read this note late and will no longer be able to see the application form in the original, as well as those who prefer to view it in translation with some additional explanations, can look at my iTech Bridge blog .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/20462/
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