Posmetrics

Posmetrics YC Application

Winter 2013Inactive

Posmetrics went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2013 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
Winter 2013
Industry
B2BRetail
Team size
2
Status
Inactive
Launched
2013

Founders

  • Merrill Lutsky
    Merrill LutskyFounder/CEO
  • Erik Schluntz
    Erik SchluntzFounder/CFO

What Posmetrics does

Posmetrics provides innovative iPad-based customer feedback surveys that collect orders of magnitude more data than other technologies, provide relevant, real-time results, and generate actionable recommendations to help businesses and organizations improve their services.

Posmetrics's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Posmetrics, Winter 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Posmetrics

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Ultra-short in-store tablet feedback surveys

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

We build tablet-based short customer feedback surveys designed to be deployed on iPads mounted inside retail and service businesses. Our product collects much more feedback than traditional methods and delivers real-time insights and actionable recommendations to help businesses improve their customer experience.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

Cupertino is where both founders are located and where there is easy access to customers and technology resources. Being here lets us iterate on the product quickly and maintain close customer relationships.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Posmetrics YC application?

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

What YC batch was Posmetrics in?

Posmetrics was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2013 batch.

Who founded Posmetrics?

Posmetrics was founded by Merrill Lutsky, Erik Schluntz.

What does Posmetrics do?

Ultra-short feedback surveys on tablets mounted in businesses. Higher…

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Posmetrics's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.

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