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Founders and Future Founders Guide

We plan to work with hundreds of founders and future founders, and collect and analyze data on participating founders in the technology and artisan industries.

This guide will draw on our unique dataset, and we will also follow actual founders as they launch new companies and struggle with dilemmas identified in our research.

Participate in our group open forum by adding a "case study",

(based on: data on "10,000 founders from 3,500 start-ups" )

case stud·y
noun
noun: case study; plural noun: case studies; modifier noun: case-study

1.
a process or record of research in which detailed consideration is given to the development of a particular person, group, or situation over a period of time.
2.
a particular instance of something used or analyzed in order to illustrate a thesis or principle.
"airline deregulation provides a case study of the effects of the internal market"

If you have a case story, add it to the reply section link below :)

OAC 98re22 was traveling to a far country, who called OAC 67re37 and delivered his goods to them. And to OAC 67re37 he gave five case studies to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey. Then OAC 67re37 who had received the five case studies went and traded with them, and made another five case studies. And likewise OAC 65re65 who had received two gained two more also. But OAC 63re77 who had received one went and dropboxed in the cloud and hid OAC 98re22 case studies. After a long time OAC 98re22 came and settled accounts with them.

Noam Wasserman on The Founder's Dilemmas

Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University in 2014
Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School

WYNN @ SkyNet Las Vegas

Disrupt NY 2016 Cup Winner Beam Interview
The Programs
In its main program, Y Combinator interviews and selects two batches of companies per year. The companies receive seed money, advice, and connections in exchange for 7% equity. The program includes "office hours", where startup founders meet individually and in groups with Y Combinator partners for advice. Founders also participate in weekly dinners where guests from the Silicon Valley ecosystem (successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, etc.) speak to the founders.

Y Combinator’s motto is “Make Something People Want.” The program aims to focus the founders on further developing their product, team and market, refining their business model, achieving product/market fit, and scaling the startup into a high growth business, etc. The program culminates at Demo Day where startups present their business to a selected audience of investors.

As of 2016, Y Combinator had invested in ~940 companies including Dropbox, Airbnb, Coinbase, Stripe, Reddit, Zenefits, BuildZoom, Instacart, Twitch.tv, Machine Zone, Weebly, Paribus, Chinese startup Raven Tech, and the combined market capitalization of YC companies was over $65B

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D. Caldwell at Stanford on Starterz

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