One Month YC Application

Summer 2013Inactive

One Month went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2013 batch as a Education 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 2013
Industry: Education
Team size: 1
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2013

Founders

Mattan GriffelFounder/CEO
Chris CastiglioneFounder

What One Month does

One Month is an accelerated learning platform. Our goal is simple -- empower people to change their lives by learning real-world skills, in a short amount of time. The One Month team is comprised of education thought-leaders and self-taught technology experts working to build the most effective way to learn online.

One Month's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

One Month, Summer 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

One Month

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Affordable online bootcamps teaching coding

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

We built One Month, an accelerated online learning platform that offers affordable bootcamps to teach people real-world coding skills in a short amount of time. The product is a curriculum combined with video lessons designed to get beginners coding quickly.

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

I live in New York, NY, and the company operates remotely. After YC, the company would be based in New York and continue supporting remote work.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York has a vibrant tech community and access to remote talent fits our needs. Being remote allows flexibility to build out the best educational content without geographic limits.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real One Month YC application?

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