Application YC di Crocodoc

Winter 2010Acquired

Crocodoc ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Winter 2010 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 2010
Settore: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Stato: Acquired
Lanciata: 2012

Founder

Ryan DamicoFounder/CEO
Peter LaiFounder
Matt LongFounder
Bennett RogersFounder

Cosa fa Crocodoc

Crocodoc developed the world's most advanced web-based document viewing and collaboration technology for Microsoft Office and PDF files, built on open standards such as HTML5 and CSS3. Whether viewing a document, adding comments to a presentation, highlighting an e-textbook, or filling out a form, we make it easy for companies to create amazing experiences for their users with technology that is secure, scalable, and trusted by top brands in the consumer and enterprise space. Every month users upload millions of documents to Crocodoc, whose customers include top brands such as Dropbox, Yammer, LinkedIn, SAP, and Edmodo. Crocodoc was founded in 2007 and is funded by Y Combinator, SV Angel, 500 Startups, and top angel investors including Joshua Schachter, Paul Buchheit, Steve Chen, and Shan Sinha.

Application YC di Crocodoc, ricostruita

Domanda per Y Combinator

Crocodoc, batch Winter 2010. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Crocodoc

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Embed PDFs, PowerPoints, and other documents into web and mobile apps

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

We built a web-based document viewer and collaboration tool that lets companies embed and interact with Microsoft Office docs and PDFs inside their apps using HTML5 and CSS3 instead of plugins or static images. Users can view, comment, highlight, or fill forms securely and seamlessly in the browser or on mobile.

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

We live in San Francisco now and the company will be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and it's the core tech hub with customers and investors nearby. Being here accelerates our ability to build and sell to the enterprise and consumer web sectors we target.

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Domande Frequenti

Questa è l'application YC reale di Crocodoc?

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 Crocodoc (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come Crocodoc si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.