Think Gaming YC Application

Summer 2014Inactive

Think Gaming went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2014 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: Summer 2014
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 1
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2014

Founders

Michael HoydichFounder/Strategy, Marketing
Tim OgilvieFounder

What Think Gaming does

Think Gaming uses data science to connect the best mobile freemium games with publishers and investors that can help them grow. We've analyzed 5000+ games using a proprietary data set to find the keys to predictable success. Our free Scouting Reports compare games to top grossing peers and assess their likelihood of becoming the next billion dollar mobile game.

Think Gaming's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Think Gaming, Summer 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Think Gaming

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Market data on mobile games for developers

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

We provide developers, publishers, and investors with data science tools that analyze over 5,000 mobile freemium games. Our main product is the free Scouting Reports, which compare games to top grossing peers and assess their potential to become the next billion-dollar hit. This helps our users find growth opportunities or investment targets backed by data they can trust.

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

We live in New York, NY, and plan for the company to be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in New York where the mobile games industry and investors we work with are concentrated. This proximity helps us stay close to customers and trends in mobile gaming.

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 Think Gaming YC application?

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