Beetailer YC Application

Winter 2011Inactive

Beetailer went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2011 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2011
Industry: B2BRetail
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Laura ValverdeFounder/CEO
Juan GallegoFounder
Miguel Martinez TrivinoFounder

What Beetailer does

Beetailer. Your online store in Facebook Bring your store to Facebook and grow your business Our software helps you import your existing web store onto FB. We give you tools for promoting it and detailed analytics about how well it is doing. Over a thousand stores, reaching more than 50 millions of fans, are already using our system.

Beetailer's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Beetailer, Winter 2011 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Beetailer

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Facebook stores

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We've built software that imports existing web stores into Facebook, letting businesses turn their Facebook pages into full online stores. Our product also provides tools to promote the store and analytics on sales and customer engagement.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in Mountain View, CA, and the company is based here and would remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in Mountain View because it's where we already live and where our technical and business team is located. It's also close to potential partners and customers in the tech ecosystem.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Beetailer YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Beetailer's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Beetailer would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.