Women.com YC Application

Summer 2014Acquired

Women.com went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2014 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 2014
Industry: ConsumerContent
Team size: 11
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2014

Founders

Susan JohnsonFounder/CEO

What Women.com does

We aim to support and promote women who are creating wonderful and beautiful things. We hope to offer a trusted destination that will give you a moment's rest and a bit of laughter in our constantly on-the-go, work-driven world. Our dream is that every time you want to smile and add a little bit of delight to your day, you come to women.com. And when that smile carries over into the rest of your life and world, you share how good you feel with everyone around you. Pass it on. Our current website offers a personality quiz platform, trivia quizzes and a closed Q & A community.

Women.com's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Women.com, Summer 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Women.com

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Quora/Cosmo for women

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

We run a website combining personality and trivia quizzes with a closed Q&A community designed specifically for women. Our product offers women a trusted place to find fun, engaging, and supportive content tailored to their interests, providing a moment of rest and light-hearted enjoyment in a busy day.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in San Mateo because it is our home and gives us access to the talent and network needed to build and grow the site.

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 Women.com YC application?

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