Application YC di Booktrope

Winter 2015Inactive

Booktrope ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Winter 2015 come azienda B2B. Sotto: cosa fa l'azienda, chi l'ha fondata e la sua application a YC, ricostruita domanda per domanda nel form reale di YC.

Batch YC: Winter 2015
Settore: B2BMarketing
Dimensione team: 51
Stato: Inactive
Lanciata: 2014

Founder

Kenneth ShearFounder/CEO
Andy RobertsFounder/CTO
Katherine SearsFounder/CMO

Cosa fa Booktrope

** NO LONGER IN BUSINESS ** Booktrope is reinventing the way books are published. We are not a self-publishing operation. What does that mean? At Booktrope we do not charge authors to publish nor do we accept all submissions. We have pioneered a concept called “Team Publishing” which addresses the way books are actually developed, not just the way they are distributed and read. We offer print, ebook, and web versions of all our books, in other words, we are format agnostic. We don’t want to debate the death of print books, or the birth of ebooks, we love and support them all. A typical Publishing Team consists of an author, editor, designer and business/marketing manager for the book. You don’t get assigned projects in our system; you choose the people you work with. We work much more quickly than traditional publishers, taking advantage of new technologies to streamline the process of getting books into the hands of readers. Lastly, we use that same technology to keep overhead low, and we think that the bulk of the revenue from book sales should go back to the creative team that makes them happen.

Application YC di Booktrope, ricostruita

Domanda per Y Combinator

Booktrope, batch Winter 2015. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Booktrope

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Software platform for collaborative book publishing

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

We built a platform that makes it easy for authors, editors, designers, and marketing managers to form teams and publish books together. Our software coordinates the entire book development process from manuscript editing to design and marketing, supporting print, ebook, and web formats without charging authors upfront.

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

We live and work primarily in Seattle, WA, with a remote team. After YC, the company would remain based in Seattle with continued remote collaboration.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Seattle is where the founding team is located and where we have built most of the product and team. The tech talent and creative community here support our work well. We also have established remote contributors, which fits our model.

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Domande Frequenti

Questa è l'application YC reale di Booktrope?

No. Y Combinator mantiene private le application inviate. Questa è una ricostruzione: le domande del form YC reale, a cui si è risposto usando i dati pubblici di Booktrope (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come Booktrope si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.

A quale batch YC apparteneva Booktrope?

Booktrope apparteneva al batch Winter 2015 di Y Combinator.

Chi ha fondato Booktrope?

Booktrope è stato fondato da Kenneth Shear, Andy Roberts, Katherine Sears.

Cosa fa Booktrope?

Booktrope provides a software platform that makes it easy for…

Come leggo la ricostruzione completa della application?

Crea un account Round Funded gratuito. La versione completa di 26 risposte della application di Booktrope, e di ogni altro batch YC, è in YC Insights.