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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Y Combinator comes up
EP 519: GetAccept Hits $44k MRR, Helping 1100 Companies Get Deals Signed with CEO Samir Samjic
- ▶ 1:58 Nathan Latka GetAccept.com recently moved to San Francisco from Sweden because they are part of YC.
- ▶ 4:31 Samir Smajic So just before arriving to YC in January.
- ▶ 9:40 Samir Smajic HelloSign is being one of the other YC companies, but I think that the DocuSign is the best working best. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:50 Samir Smajic Yeah, we went through YC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:42 Nathan Latka They went through YC.
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla
- ▶ 2:04 Nathan Latka HelloFacts launched in 2010 after attending the prestigious startup accelerator Y Combinator.
- ▶ 3:54 Joseph Walla So after YC, we raised two million and then about two years later, we raised another million and a half.
EP 515: 0 to $300k MRR in 16 Months Helping 300 ECommerce Brands Streamline with Skubana CEO Chad Rubin
- ▶ 18:56 Nathan Latka So featured on Y Combinator, featured on Hack the, uh, Hack the Entrepreneur, uh, the Wirecutter.
EP 508: Siftery $4M Raised, 25,000 Users to Help You Find Software Tools with CMO Gerry Golyer
- ▶ 12:47 Nathan Latka Now, obviously we know Ryan is a YC alum, so we have connections there, but what strategically were you doing?
EP 481: 4400 Flashlights Sold, $79 Price, $23 COGS, 55% Net Margin with TrueGunner CEO Tanner Larsson
- ▶ 20:13 Nathan Latka Brandon's company is Y Combinator backed.
EP 479: $45M Raised, 5000+ Project Management Customers with Mavenlink CEO Ray Grainger
- ▶ 1:11 Nathan Latka Coming up tomorrow morning, you're going to learn from Brandon Voo, who runs Polymail, a Y Combinator backed company that's raised one million dollars and just hit 20,000 users.
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo
- ▶ 1:35 Nathan Latka He is the co-founder and CEO of PolyMail, OIC, S-sixteen alum.
- ▶ 5:24 Nathan Latka Was it reaching out to the YC kind of a network? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:54 Brandon Foo We have raised just around a million dollars, uh, including YC's investment. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:59 Brandon Foo Um, so we just wrapped up our seed rounds, um, after YC demo day was a couple of months ago.
- ▶ 18:09 Nathan Latka YC alum.
EP 472: $65k Crowdfunded on Angel List and 75,000 Pre-Launch Email With Youngry CEO Ash Kumra
EP 470: How He Got 10,000 Interested In Product Before Launch with Scorely CEO Shawn Porat
- ▶ 13:55 Nathan Latka So Y Combinator kind of safe.
- ▶ 19:40 Nathan Latka With over 250,000 dollars raised on a safe, that's the YC convertible note format.
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M
- ▶ 6:41 Nathan Latka Yeah, people, did you meet Chris through YC? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:56 Steli Efti So, Close Eye is self-funded, but if you give the whole story, when we started the business, we went through IC, we raised a seed round on convertible debt, and then we pivoted that business into elastic sales, which was a services… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:37 Nathan Latka Where are you, how do you think about when someone comes to you and says, Steli, you know, you go to a YC conference and someone says, we have this brand new marketing channel, it's working great.
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp
- ▶ 4:55 Mathilde Collin Uh, so we, we started in France, then we received some funding from Y Combinator because, uh, we went to YC in summer of 14, and then after YC, we raised our seed three millions, and then two months ago, we raised our series A, ten… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:18 Mathilde Collin Um, it's also, uh, I think a piece of advice that we received from YC 2 times in the scene
EP 405: 409A Valutions, Cap Table Pro-Formas and More with Jonathan Gass of NomadFinancial
- ▶ 14:36 Nathan Latka I might even have an offer from YEC and tech stars or 500 startups to go through their programs. 2 times in the scene
LeadGenius $700K MRR, 200 Customers
- ▶ 0:05 Nathan Latka President and co-founder of Lead Genius, backed by Y Combinator, 500, Andreessen, and Sierra Ventures.
- ▶ 8:59 Anand Kulkarni So Sierra doesn't do a lot of seed investing to begin with, but our seed round was, um, we were part of Y Combinator and 500 startups, so
EP 394: Create SnapChat Stories Like Featured Brands, 20k Views Each Snap
- ▶ 6:52 Nathan Latka Yeah, yeah, but you guys use the SAFE, right, from YC? 3 times in the scene
EP 388: TrueBill Saves You $ On All Those Monthly Subscriptions You Pay
- ▶ 4:32 Nathan Latka They're like a Y comment or company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:22 Yahya Mokhtarzada And then I also just sort of write what the journey is like and sort of, so far my experience is going through YC, raising funding, and I try to keep that up to date as well.
EP 357: He Quit His Job, Lost His Life Savings, Then Hit it Big With SaaS Business
- ▶ 16:21 Nathan Latka And the safe notes, that was popularized by Y Combinator, right?
EP 346: Non-Profit Builds 100+ Homes, Goal 1,000 Communities with Brett Hagler
- ▶ 1:11 Nathan Latka He's a Y Combinator graduate and author, cancer survivor, and was recently named the 2016 Forbes 30 under 30 list.
- ▶ 7:24 Brett Hagler And that's how we got into Y Combinator.
EP 345: Replacing Property Managers With $79 Flat Fee, $31k in MRR with Max Nussenbaum of EnterCastle.com
- ▶ 1:35 Nathan Latka Again, he is the Castle YC, actually, they went through YC, uh, in the 16th class, which we'll talk about in a second.
- ▶ 8:18 Max Nussenbaum Uh, the most recent was a two million dollar seed round that we raised right after graduating from YC, uh, just about two months ago. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:10 Nathan Latka How did the YC let you guys get you do that? 4 times in the scene
Shocked Subbu Wouldn't Accept my $10M Offer after Raising $1M This Year, EP 282: Subbu Rama
- ▶ 8:15 Nathan Latka YC, YC kind of standard document.
He's 31, Doing $700k/mo By Automating The Sales Process WIth $8m Raised, EP 265: Anand Kulkarni
- ▶ 1:26 Nathan Latka President and co-founder of Lead Genius, backed by Y Combinator, 500, Andreessen, and Sierra Ventures.
- ▶ 10:20 Anand Kulkarni So Sierra doesn't do a lot of seed investing to begin with, but our seed round was, um, we were part of Y Combinator and 500 startups, so.
EP 318: She Threw Away Old Company, Now Doing $3.3 Million/year, $18,000,000 Raised With MatterMark.com
- ▶ 1:26 Nathan Latka She's the Y Combinator Summer of the Year.
- ▶ 3:11 Danielle Morrill That's the company that got into Y Combinator. 4 times in the scene
This Entrepreneur Served 10 Years in The Army, You Won't Believe What Happened Next with Michael Slavin EP 237
- ▶ 20:29 Michael Slavin Founder, I'm sure you know of Y Combinator.
No Way This Fitness App Worth $8m With No Revenue with Ashu Dubey of GetApplause EP 212
- ▶ 5:37 Ashu Dubey So we looked at what are the other companies looking like, what's their valuation, and if you look at the Y Combinator, the numbers are really public, and so we went ahead with that number. 4 times in the scene
Getting Your First $10k/mo In Revenue with Ben Fisher of CartHook.com EP 203
- ▶ 7:34 Ben Fisher So, um, professional organizations for YAC was one of our earliest customers. 2 times in the scene
How To Get Your First 100 Customers with Matthew Bernman EP 201
- ▶ 4:32 Matthew Berman YC has documents for convertible notes.
How Latergram.me Grew to $50k/mo, 500,000 users, $1.2m Raised in Episode 190 with Matt Smith
- ▶ 17:07 Nathan Latka It's basically kind of a Paul Graham Y Combinator standard, a kind of modified convertible note for you guys to study in the show notes at nathanlatka.com forward slash the top.