Hello Chair YC Application
Hello Chair went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2007 batch as a Consumer 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 2007
- Industry
- ConsumerHome and Personal
- Status
- Inactive
- Launched
- 2012
Founders
- Kevin CorcoranFounder
- Michael JacobsFounder
What Hello Chair does
Hello, Chair Inc. was founded in 2006 by Luke Iannini, Mike Jacobs and Kevin Corcoran to explore opportunities in applied machine learning and internet advertising. After receiving funding from Y-Combinator in 2007, we produced Adpinion, one of the first advertising networks to utilize user feedback to drive personalized targeting. Our core technology - the recommendation engine called SparseReduce - has since proved infinitely adaptable in such diverse problem domains as Amazon product recommendation, eBay auction discovery, image and language comprehension, and Twitter stream exploration. The latest application of SparseReduce is Appsaurus, an app discovery platform which was released on the eve of 2010 to overwhelming critical acclaim. We're backed by some pretty incredible investors: Harrison Metal, Mitch Kapor, Chris Sacca, Y-Combinator and David Parker to name a few. We're also proud to have Alexis Ohanian as an advisor.
Hello Chair's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Hello Chair, Summer 2007 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Hello Chair
Personalized ad network using user feedback
We built Adpinion, an advertising network that uses a recommendation engine called SparseReduce to personalize ads based on user feedback. It adapts to users' preferences to improve ad relevance and engagement. This technology later expanded into app discovery and other recommendation domains.
We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based there after YC.
San Francisco has the right environment and community for early-stage startups working in applied machine learning and internet advertising, which suits the focus of our product.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Hello Chair YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Hello Chair's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Hello Chair would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Hello Chair in?
Hello Chair was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2007 batch.
Who founded Hello Chair?
Hello Chair was founded by Kevin Corcoran, Michael Jacobs.
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Hello Chair's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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