Founders Of Posterous, Heyzap And Etacts On Getting Funded By Y Combinator – with Sachin, Immad and Howie
on Feb 26, 2010 - 5:04 PM PSTI tried something new in this program. To help me understand how the seed venture firm Y Combinator helps entrepreneurs launch and grow their startups, I invited not one guest as I usually do, but three founders of three different companies. Each entrepreneur talked about how he got into Y Combinator, how the program helped launch his startup and what it did for him after he left the program.
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About The Startups
Sachin Agarwal is co-founder of Posterous, the dead simple place to post everything. All you have to do is email it.
Immad Akhund is the co-founder of Heyzap, which allows any website or blog to take the most exciting flash games and put them into their website. This results in the website/blog having increased traffic, user time of site and engagement.
Howie Liu is co-founder of Etacts, your relationship-centered communications portal.
This program was sponsored by
Wufoo- The easy way to add elegant forms and surveys to your site. (I use them on my site’s contact page. When we got married Olivia and I used Wufoo on our wedding web site to collect RSVPs because their forms are beautiful.)
Shopify – Thousands of stores are built using Shopify because it’s easy to set up and manage. Tim Ferriss recently announced a contest that offers $100,000 prize for the highest grossing store. Go start your store now.
Grasshopper – Entrepreneurs (like me) love and use Grasshopper because it offers all the features of the big, expensive phone systems (like multiple extensions, music on hold and call forwarding) but it works with any phone and starts at only $9.95 a month.
[Thank you Dru Wynings for helping me do this program!]
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February 26th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Andrew I'm impressed by your energy!!! wow…how do you manage to put up one interview a day? I'm impressed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 26th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
This is great Andrew. Looking forward to share this with some colleagues on a strategy meeting tomorrow. From all the podcasts I download through iTunes, yours is always the first one I click on to watch. Keep it up and be careful in, Patagonia? Later!
February 26th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
So the first time around you tried tinychat. What did you use this time, Andrew? All in all, considering the foursome, lag was very good.
February 26th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
TinyChat again. Last time my office had Internet trouble. No one else
noticed because they don't need much bandwith. It was fixed by today.
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February 27th, 2010 at 12:04 am
No transcript this time? My bandwidth can't let me watch the video.
February 27th, 2010 at 1:55 am
very very very insightful!! Thanks!
February 27th, 2010 at 8:00 am
Technical difficulties aside, these videos are getting better and better.
Selfishly, I hope you don't get too famous. I love the raw, intimate feel of the interviews. Each interview feels like an accidental run-in with a superstar. You know, the kind your friends will never believe. They are so inspirational! I can see why you said “this is the site I wish I had.”
What you are doing is literally changing lives and quite possibly the world. Good job.
February 27th, 2010 at 11:08 am
Now we are talking, Mixergy suddenly got interesting, good work Andrew ;)
//Sinh
February 27th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Thanks. What part of this excited you?
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February 27th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Well , the concept to interview 3 at the same time, which could lead to a small talkshow.
Its like Jay Leno interviewing 3 stars and we are the audience.
February 27th, 2010 at 11:16 am
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February 28th, 2010 at 3:37 am
Actually, Andrew did 2 interviews that day. This one was straight after his interview with Howard Lindzon – which I am sure he will be posting soon. And he was (still is) sick that day. That is to say it took a lot of determination and sweat in startups, and Andrew is a true entrepreneur.
February 28th, 2010 at 4:46 am
This is a nice intro into finding finance and help for the start up idea – each journey is slightly different, but broadly fits the same need for credibility, determination and sustainability.
March 9th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Andrew…great stuff!…Im actually applying to YC so this came in handy.
May 2nd, 2010 at 10:11 am
cool interview on the inside workings of Y combinator.
May 2nd, 2010 at 5:11 pm
cool interview on the inside workings of Y combinator.