YC Fellowship Application Form

Please notify me if having this form here is against the law... please?

This is just inspirational,

what YC is doing here,

it just seems so right,

but then again,

in my country, South Korea, 

the gov is funding and funding and funding,

without taking any equity,

so maybe, this is an opportunity for those

who cannot apply for Korea's gov funding

because of certain qualifications they have to satisfy

or those, those in college, who have a cool, reliable team

but who really really cannot take anything out of their pocket

because they really don't have any-

Just like the time when I dreamed of establishing a school

under my name.

YC Fellowship Application

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Please only submit one application per team. Before you start writing, read http://www.ycombinator.com/howtoapply/. Respect sentence and word limits! On other questions, assume a MAXIMUM of 120 words. Make sure to save your drafts, and to submit before the July 27, 8pm deadline. Note: once you submit, you CANNOT go back and edit your application!

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Company name: *

Email address we should contact you at: *

Which of the following best describes your progress? *                                       idea stage                              prototype                              closed beta                              open beta                              publicly launched                              pivoting ideas                              growing 

What is your company going to make? *

Limit: 120 words

For each founder, please list: Hacker News id (if any); name; age; year of graduation, school, degree / subject for each degree; email address; github url (if any); facebook url (if any); twitter url (if any); employer / title (if any) at last job. *

Put unfinished degrees in parens. List the main contact first. Separate founders with blank lines.

Limit: 200 words

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In two sentences, say the most impressive thing about this team / startup. *

Limit: 120 words

Please tell us in one or two sentences about the most impressive thing that each founder has built or achieved. *

Limit: 120 words

Why did you pick this idea to work on? Do you have domain expertise in this area? How do you know people need what you're making? *

Limit: 120 words

What's new about what you're making? What substitutes do people resort to because it doesn't exist yet (or they don't know about it)? *

Limit: 120 words

Who are your competitors, and what do you understand about your business that other companies in it just don't get? *

Limit: 120 words

How will you get users? How do or will you make money? How does this become a giant company? *

Limit: 120 words

Company url, if any:

If you have an online demo, what's the url? (Please don't password protect it; just use an obscure url.)

Please enter the url of a 1 minute unlisted (not private) YouTube video introducing the founders. *

This is required! Follow the instructions at https://www.ycombinator.com/video

Make sure to include the EXACT url string (including https://www.)

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Is at least one member of your team a programmer? (or if your product isn't software, is your team able to make the product without outside assistance?) *

• yes
• no

Will all founders commit to working exclusively on this project for the next six months? (no school, no jobs) *

• yes
• no

Has your startup received any prior investment? *

• yes
• no

If you've received equity-free grants totaling more than $50k, say yes.

How long have the founders known one another and how did you meet? (one sentence max) *

Have any of the founders not met in person? *

• yes
• no

If you've already started working on it, how long have you been working and how many lines of code (if applicable) have you written? (One sentence max) *

When will you have a prototype or beta? (5 words max) *

How many users do you have? (just give the number) *

How much revenue? (one sentence max, if zero just say ‘none’) *

What is your monthly growth rate? (in users or revenue or both) *

Please list the breakdown of the equity ownership (or if unincorporated, planned breakdown) in percentages among the founders, employees and any other stockholders. *

Limit: 50 words

Are any of the founders covered by noncompetes or intellectual property agreements that overlap with your project? If so, please explain; if no, just say no. *

Limit: 50 words

Was any of your code written by someone who is not one of your founders? If so, describe how can you legally use it. (Open source is ok of course.) *

Limit: 50 words

If you have already participated or committed to participated in an incubator, "accelerator" or "pre-accelerator" program, please say which *

What kind of corporate entity is your startup? *                                       not incorporated                              LLC                              Delaware C Corporation                              other 

Is there anything else we should know about your company? (Pending lawsuits, cofounders who have left, etc.) *

Limit: 50 words

Is your team willing to move to the Bay Area for this program? (It’s strongly encouraged, but it’s really not required – for this experiment, we want to work with remote teams too) *

• yes
• no

Can you come to the Bay Area for an interview, or if not, is your internet connection good enough for a clear, low-latency video chat interview? (We’d love to meet you in-person, but we’re not providing travel reimbursement.) *

• yes
• no

If you'd plan to interview remotely, please actually check your video chat connection with a friend before saying yes.

Primary contact’s Skype username: *

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC Fellowship? (list as City A, Country A / City B, Country B.) *

Phone numbers of Founders (one per each line): *

Limit: 100 words

 

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