What do you say in Y Combinator video?

In the video please introduce yourselves, explain what you’re doing and why, and tell us anything else you want to about the founders or the project. The video should be 1 minute long and should contain nothing except the founders talking.

What Y Combinator looks for?

We’re looking for ideas that combine technology and person-to-person interactions to deliver highly individualized educational experiences.

How do you use Y Combinator?

The Y combinator is a formula which lets you implement recursion in a situation where functions can’t have names but can be passed around as arguments, used as return values, and defined within other functions. It works by passing the function to itself as an argument, so it can call itself.

Can you apply to Y Combinator with just an idea?

Q: Can you apply to YC with just an idea? Yes. We accept companies at a wide range of stages into the batch. Cruise, for example, had been working on their idea for just two weeks when they applied to YC.

Who is the CEO of Y Combinator?

Michael Seibel
YCombinator/CEO

How do you get selected for Y Combinator?

You must have at least 10% equity in the startup to be considered a founder by Y Combinator. Only founders can come to interviews if invited or attend batch events if accepted.

Is Y Combinator in person?

Half of YC is events in which all the startups participate. The other half happens in individual conversations with us. The individual conversations with the startups happen during office hours they book online.

Is Y Combinator an incubator or accelerator?

Y Combinator (YC) is an American seed money startup accelerator launched in March 2005. It has been used to launch more than 2,000 companies, including Stripe, Airbnb, Cruise Automation, DoorDash, Coinbase, Instacart, Dropbox, Twitch, and Reddit.

Is Y Combinator hard to get into?

Getting into YC is tough. That rumored acceptance rate of 1.5% for both the winter and summer programs means competition is tough.

Why is Y Combinator so successful?

The reason that Y Combinator alumni like Airbnb and Docker are so successful isn’t because YC teaches you Jedi mind tricks or because it gives you access to an elite network. It’s simply a result of the age-old equation: smart people + focus = good things.

What percentage does Y Combinator take?

YC recently announced that in 2021 the amount it plans to invest will go down to $125,000 for the same 7 percent allowing them to fund 3,000 more companies. Y Combinator has changed over the years in other ways as well. “We work with companies way more extensively than we used to,” Ralston said.

Is it hard to get into Y Combinator?

The chances aren’t equal for everybody! This is not a lottery where everyone has an equal chance of getting in — it’s not random chance! Your odds of getting into YC are not 1 in 100. They are either much, much higher than that — or much, much lower than that.

How to make a Y Combinator application video?

We’ve look across the web for the best videos from founders who have made it into the program — or have secured interviews — and collected some of the best advice on crafting your own winning YC video. Y Combinator itself gives very simple, if not slightly vague, instructions for founders putting in a YC application. Namely:

What do you need to know about Y Combinator?

COVID-19 YC bio and healthcare companies are helping with the COVID-19 crisis and need your support: https://www.ycombinator.com/covid About Slideshow of founders and startups at Y Combinator. Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. Twice a year we invest a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups.

When did Y Combinator start using the safe?

Y Combinator introduced the safe (simple agreement for future equity) in late 2013, and since then, it has been used by almost all YC startups and countless non-YC startups as the main instrument for early-stage fundraising.

Do you have to have a promotional video for Y Combinator?

If you’re going to spend time making something cool, put it into your product. This is not the place to submit a demo or promotional video. If you have a demo for your product, there is a place in the application for that. However, we don’t want to see any promotional video. Here, we want to hear how the founders communicate.