Shoptiques YC Application

Winter 2012Active

Shoptiques went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 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: Winter 2012
Industry: ConsumerApparel and Cosmetics
Team size: 51
Status: Active
Launched: 2011

Founders

Olga VidishevaFounder/CEO
Peter DelahuntyFounder
Dan MorinFounder
Jeff MorinFounder

What Shoptiques does

Shoptiques.com brings boutique shopping online. On Shoptiques.com, you will experience personalized shopping with the most unique and fashion-forward inventory from the best local boutiques. This means no more searching through hundreds of sites and walking down random streets in hopes of finding the perfect item! It’s now easy to discover your favorite local boutiques and shop new looks in one place.

Shoptiques's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Shoptiques, Winter 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Shoptiques

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Shoptiques.com lets you shop local boutiques online

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

We built Shoptiques.com to bring the inventory of local boutiques online in one place. Our site lets shoppers browse and buy unique, fashion-forward items from multiple independent boutiques without visiting individual stores or websites. It solves the problem of hard-to-find boutique inventory and saves users time and guesswork hunting for unique pieces.

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

We live and work in New York, NY and plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where many of the boutiques we partner with are located and it's where our team is based. Being close to the core market and our partners makes the most sense.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Shoptiques YC application?

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