How to Present to Investors
April 2007, September 2010In a few days it will be Demo Day, when the startups we funded this summer present to investors. Y Combinator funds startups twice a year, in January and June. Ten weeks later we invite all the investors we know to hear them present what they've built so far.Ten weeks is not much time.
- ▪April 2007, September 2010In a few days it will be Demo Day, when the startups we funded this summer present to investors.
- ▪Y Combinator funds startups twice a year, in January and June.
- ▪Ten weeks later we invite all the investors we know to hear them present what they've built so far.Ten weeks is not much time.
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Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. August 2006, rev. April 2007, September 2010In a few days it will be Demo Day, when the startups we funded this summer present to investors. Y Combinator funds startups twice a year, in January and June. Ten weeks later we invite all the investors we know to hear them present what they've built so far.Ten weeks is not much time. The average startup probably doesn't have much to show for itself after ten weeks. But the average startup fails. When you look at the ones that went on to do great things, you find a lot that began with someone pounding out a prototype in a week or two of nonstop work.
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