If you have a demo, what's the url? Demo can be anything that shows us how the product works. Usually that's a video or screen recording.
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Please provide a link to the product, if relevant.
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Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.
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What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.
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Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after Light in Action?
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Contact
First Name *
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Last Name *
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Founder Phone Number *
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Founders
Please enter the url of a 1 minute unlisted (not private) YouTube video introducing the founder(s). This video is an important part of the application. (Follow the Video Guidelines.) *
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How many founders are on the team? *
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Category
Which category best applies to your company?
Clear selection
Where will most of your initial users be located?
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Progress
How far along are you?
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How long have each of you been working on this? How much of that has been full-time? Please explain.
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Are people using your product?
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Do you have revenue?
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If you are applying with the same idea as a previous batch, did anything change? If you applied with a different idea, why did you pivot and what did you learn from the last idea?
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If you have already participated or committed to participate in an incubator, "accelerator" or "pre-accelerator" program, please tell us about it.
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Idea
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?
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Who are your competitors? What do you understand about your business that they don't?
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How do or will you make money? How much could you make?
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Equity
Have you formed ANY legal entity yet?
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Have you issued stock to investors?
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Have you raised money using crowdfunding?
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Have you taken any investment yet?
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Are you currently fundraising?
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If you have not formed the company yet, describe the planned equity ownership breakdown among the founders, employees and any other proposed stockholders. If there are multiple founders, be sure to give the proposed equity ownership of each founder and founder title (e.g. CEO).
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Please provide any other relevant information about the structure or formation of the company.
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Legal
Are any of the founders covered by noncompetes or intellectual property agreements that overlap with your project? If so, please explain.
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Who writes code, or does other technical work on your product? Was any of it done by a non-founder? Please explain.
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Have you received any government grants? If so, list the grants you've received, including the terms of the grant, who it's from, what it covers, and when you received it.
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Is there anything else we should know about your company?
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Others
If you had any other ideas you considered applying with, please list them. One may be something we've been waiting for. Often when we fund people it's to do something they list here and not in the main application.
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Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered.
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Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered.
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Curious
What convinced you to apply to Y Combinator? Did someone encourage you to apply?