Fanchatter YC Application

Summer 2009Inactive

Fanchatter went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2009 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: Summer 2009
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 11
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Marty WetherallFounder/CEO
Todd EmmelFounder
Luke FranclFounder

What Fanchatter does

FanChatter fuels your fans so they can promote you better than any ad ever could. Our customers are big guys (NBC Universal, Clear Channel, Gannett) and little guys (bloggers all over the world) who pay us to source and showcase the most abundant yet least leveraged marketing material on the planet... Pure, voluntary social chatter about your interest. FanChatter offers you the tools to find it, refine it, and make it multiply. And that is the future of advertising.

Fanchatter's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Fanchatter, Summer 2009 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Fanchatter

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Aggregates and amplifies fan-generated content

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

We built FanChatter to find and showcase social chatter about brands and interests, letting companies harness voluntary fan content across the web. Our product aggregates fan posts, curates the best content, and provides tools for brands big and small to use their fans as marketers, effectively turning chatter into promotion.

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

We live in Minneapolis, MN, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live and work in Minneapolis, where we have established our team and initial users. Staying local helps us move faster as a small team and keeps our operations lean.

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 Fanchatter YC application?

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