Yardbook YC Application

Winter 2016Active

Yardbook went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2016 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: Winter 2016
Industry: B2BFinance and Accounting
Status: Active
Launched: 2015

Founders

Mark KeFounder/CEO

What Yardbook does

At Yardbook we know how proud you are to own and operate your own landscaping business. We also know how challenging it can be to make sure everything is running smoothly. With this in mind we are pleased to offer our free software for running landscaping businesses! Yardbook is designed to provide an end-to-end solution in helping businesses with a multitude of roles such as creating schedules, estimates, completing invoices, payments, timesheets and so much more. Since we launched a little over a year ago, over 7,000 businesses in the US are now powered by Yardbook. During that time we have processed millions of dollars in invoices and helped owners, like you, organize their many administrative responsibilities. If you’re still using paper and pencil, or juggling between many different systems or spreadsheets in order to stay organized, give Yardbook a try today!

Yardbook's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Yardbook, Winter 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Yardbook

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Marketplace & Software Revolutionizing Yard Care

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

We built Yardbook, software designed to run small landscaping businesses from end to end. It handles scheduling, estimates, invoices, payments, and timesheets. Our users are landscaping business owners who traditionally rely on paper, pencil, or fragmented tools to stay organized.

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 here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Mateo keeps us close to customers and talent in the Bay Area, where we have local roots and industry connections.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Yardbook YC application?

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