PayDragon YC Application

Summer 2011Inactive

PayDragon went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2011 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 2011
Industry: ConsumerFood and Beverage
Team size: 11
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Hamilton ChanFounder/CEO

What PayDragon does

Paperlinks' mission is to hyperlink the real world. Currently, Paperlinks fulfills this by providing the ultimate QR code infrastructure for businesses. Paperlinks' solution is end-to-end, providing: a free QR reading app; code generation; a Content Management System for managing code content; and in-house design and print services.

PayDragon's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

PayDragon, Summer 2011 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

PayDragon

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Hyperlinking the real world.

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

We built Paperlinks, a platform that connects physical objects to digital content through QR codes. Our product offers a free QR code reader app, a generator for businesses to create their own codes, a content management system so they can control and update what the codes link to, plus design and print services to help deploy codes professionally. This end-to-end solution helps businesses add interactive digital layers to offline materials.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our team and early customers are all in Los Angeles, which has a strong food and beverage scene interested in our QR code infrastructure. Staying here keeps us close to our early pilot partners and design resources.

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 PayDragon YC application?

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