Earbits YC Application

Winter 2011Acquired

Earbits 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: B2BMarketing
Team size: 15
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Joey FloresFounder/CEO
Benjamin BryantFounder/Vice President Technology
Yotam RosenbaumFounder

What Earbits does

Google AdWords for music. Allowing bands and labels to bid for airtime and have their music streamed to qualified audience.

Earbits's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Earbits

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Google AdWords for music streaming

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

We built a platform that allows bands and labels to bid for airtime so their music gets streamed to targeted listeners. The system works like an ad marketplace for music, connecting artists to qualified audiences based on their bidding and targeting preferences.

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

We live in Los Angeles, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Los Angeles is where we already are and where the music and entertainment industry lives. Being here keeps us close to bands, labels, and industry partners who use our platform.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Earbits YC application?

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