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What is your company going to make?
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What's new about what you're making?
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What substitudes do people resort to because it doesn't exist yet (or they don't know about it)?
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Who are your competitors, and who might become competitors? Who do you fear the most?
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What do you understand about your business that other companies in it just don't get?
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How do or will you make money?
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How much could you make? (give your best estimate)
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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?
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How far along are you? Do you have a beta yet? If not, when will you? Are you launched? If so, how many users do you have? Do you have revenue? If so, how much? If you've launced, what is your monthly growth rate (in users or revenue or both)
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How will you get users?
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If you've already incorporated, when were you?
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Who are the shareholders and what percent does each own?
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If you've had funding, how much, at what valuation(s)?
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If you're not incorporated yet, please list the percent of the company you plan to give each founder.
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Will you work full time on this exclusively?
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Any other commitments while in YC?
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Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?
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Any non-competes or IP agreements that overlap?
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Was any of your code written by someone else?
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What were the other ideas you considered applying with?
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Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you have discovered. (The answer need not be related to your project).
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What have you hacked in the real world? (Non-computer system)
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What other projects have you created together?
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How long have you known each other?
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Have any of you not met in person?
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Why did you pick this idea to work on?
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Do you have domain expertise in this area?
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How do you know people need what you are making?
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What is the most impressive thing other than this startup that each founder has built or achieved?
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Flashcard set info:
Author: Trindaz
Main topic: Y Combinator
Topic: Startups
School / Univ.: YC
City: Mountain View, CA
Published: 02.05.2011
Tags: Y Combinator interview preparation questions
 
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