Ticket Stumbler YC Application

Summer 2008Inactive

Ticket Stumbler went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2008 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 2008
Industry: ConsumerTravel, Leisure and Tourism
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Tom DavisFounder
Dan HaubertFounder

What Ticket Stumbler does

TicketStumbler is a secondary ticket market search engine and comparison website. They search through thousands of ticket listings from hundreds of brokers and ticket exchanges across the internet and present the information in an organizable format. TicketStumbler allows simple ticket comparison, enabling you to find the best seats at the best prices.

Ticket Stumbler's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Ticket Stumbler, Summer 2008 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Ticket Stumbler

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Search engine for secondary event tickets

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

We built Ticket Stumbler, a search engine that aggregates listings from hundreds of ticket brokers and exchanges. It organizes thousands of ticket offers so users can compare prices and seats across providers in one place, simplifying what is otherwise a fragmented market.

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

We live in Boston, MA and the company is based here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Boston has a strong tech community and it's where we live. Staying here lets us build without relocating, and we can focus on building our product and market.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Ticket Stumbler YC application?

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