Earnings Call, Webinar
YC SUS: Eric Migicovsky hosts founder office hours
Y CombinatorEric Migicovsky, Eric Michakowski, JC, Mary, John, Jake, Nate, Chefy, Wee Susu, Armin, Amy, Lindy
- Facilitator sessions are planned for 20 to 30 minutes per startup, utilizing an accelerated volume of office hours to help founders solve problems through external discussion and peer networking.
- Boxcore aims to evolve into a betting platform with future utility features like live scores and recaps, targeting viral growth in specific sports or regions such as Mexico's soccer community, with a strategic repositioning for the summer 2020 Olympics and Euro 2020 events.
- Boxcore faces a scaling constraint expected by the end of January if operations remain individual, prompting plans to secure $50,000 in funding to hire engineering students in Mexico for a focused launch.
- Mary targets shipping a pilot batch of 300 units, potentially up to 500, to Kickstarter backers and the broader market by the 2020 Olympics, utilizing component orders placed immediately to secure supply chains and avoid delays associated with larger production runs.
- Mary intends to engage early customers in platform development via email outreach, leveraging the initial shipment to foster organic community building without immediate team expansion.
- Jake aims to double trucker usage or conversations to a total of 14 users by the end of the week and is developing a cryptocurrency-based payment system to automate instant detention fee releases via broker partnerships.
- Nate projects increasing weekly active users from 56 to 100 by the next week through venue visits at breweries and bars, complemented by in-app messaging and push notifications, with monetization experimentation planned only after resolving retention.
- Chefy targets onboarding three new customers within the next week to double its base, while transitioning from a lifestyle service to a scalable platform and adjusting its target demographic to primarily men based on market findings.
- Chefy plans to conduct a two-week research period involving five conversations per segment across five to six categories to identify the optimal target group, subsequently securing 50 additional potential customers in that category.
- Wee Susu plans to launch a manual service version using Venmo and spreadsheets the following night to validate demand over the next month, with future app development contingent on identifying minimum viable features and utilizing marketplace payment processors.
- Arman intends to benchmark a prototype against existing software, targeting a soft launch claim of being twice as fast, with expectations for the first usable, four-week-faster version to arrive in a few months and eventual performance scaling to 10 or 20 times the speed.
- Amy plans to prototype one pair of pants to solve immediate technical needs, produce ten additional units, and sell five initial handmade pairs at a premium price to five customers from a 40-sign-up list.
- Lindy aims to secure her first sale by contacting LinkedIn connections for HR director introductions, meeting contacts in person to gather visual feedback, and inquiring about their top three HR problems to inform the solution rather than pitching immediately.