SocialPicks YC Application

Summer 2007Inactive

SocialPicks went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2007 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 2007
Industry: ConsumerSocial
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Weiting LiuFounder/CEO
Keven LinFounder

What SocialPicks does

SocialPicks

SocialPicks's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

SocialPicks, Summer 2007 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

SocialPicks

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Platform for stock investors to exchange ideas

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

We built SocialPicks as a platform where stock investors share ideas and pick stocks together. It combines social networking with investing to help users discover and evaluate investment ideas through community interaction.

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

We live and build in New York, NY, and after YC, the company will remain based there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is the financial capital, giving us direct access to active stock investors and a community that needs better ways to share information.

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 SocialPicks YC application?

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