Pollground YC Application

Summer 2006Inactive

Pollground went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2006 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 2006
Industry: ConsumerSocial
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Fred ZhangFounder

What Pollground does

A social polling site. Pollground allows you to easily create surveys and allow the “wisdom of the crowd” to answer your questions. Questions and comments can be posted anonymously.

Pollground's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Pollground, Summer 2006 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pollground

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Online polls.

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

Pollground is a social polling site. It allows users to easily create surveys and get answers from the crowd. Users can post questions and comments anonymously to get honest feedback.

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

We live in Boston, MA and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in Boston because that's where we live and where we understand the user base and market we want to serve.

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 Pollground YC application?

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