Application YC di Heysan

Winter 2007Acquired

Heysan ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Winter 2007 come azienda Consumer. 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 2007
Settore: ConsumerSocial
Stato: Acquired
Lanciata: 2012

Founder

Gustaf AlstromerFounder/CEO
Marie BrattbergFounder/Product Manager
Pär LindheFounder/Product Development / UX lead
Parham Michael OssarehFounder/developer, tech dude

Cosa fa Heysan

Heysan was a free mobile messaging and community based in San Francisco, California. Initially Heysan provided free messaging between phones and computers, bridging IM with SMS. The service expanded into launching a mobile community and has over 1 million users doing tens of million of monthly messages. In the summer of 2007 Heysan raised a seed round from Khosla Ventures and Atomico, the venture funds of Vinod Khosla and Niklas Zennstrom. Heysan was acquired by Good Technology in May 2009.

Application YC di Heysan, ricostruita

Domanda per Y Combinator

Heysan, batch Winter 2007. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Heysan

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Free messaging on mobile phones

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

We built Heysan to connect phones and computers with free messaging. Our product lets people send messages between SMS and IM, bridging those platforms and building a mobile community that supports millions of messages monthly.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the center of mobile and social technology. It keeps us close to our users and potential partners, and it's where we live and work now.

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Domande Frequenti

Questa è l'application YC reale di Heysan?

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