Заявка Lawn Love в YC

Summer 2014Acquired

Lawn Love прошел Y Combinator в потоке Summer 2014 как компания из сферы Consumer. Ниже: чем занимается компания, кто ее основал, и ее заявка в YC, реконструированная вопрос за вопросом в реальной форме YC.

Поток YC: Summer 2014
Сфера: ConsumerHome and Personal
Размер команды: 150
Статус: Acquired
Запущено: 2014

Фаундеры

Jeremy YamaguchiFounder/CEO

Чем занимается Lawn Love

We're Lawn Love, a new type of lawn care service. We’re building a software layer on top of the very large and largely low-tech lawn care market. We solve two core problems: For consumers: Lawn Love is a modern, seamless lawn care experience. Gone are the days of physical, in-person estimates, payments left under the doormat, and spotty service. We use a combination of high-resolution satellite imagery, public and private data sets, and human review to generate a personalized quote for your yard - all in under two minutes and without ever setting foot on your property. From there, you are paired with a skilled lawn pro who will show up and complete the work. You can coordinate everything from your smartphone or web browser, and the entire experience is streamlined and delightful. For lawn pros: We start by bringing a pipeline of new customers straight to your door. No more spending hours hanging door hangers or dealing with snake-oil SEO salespeople. Just pick up whatever jobs you want, fill out your schedule, and you’re good to go. We also handle all the customer service, accounting, and collections; freeing you up to spend less time on the back-office work and more time in the field earning money. And that’s just the start: Our advanced job clustering and routing algorithms help build you much denser routes, allowing you to do up to twice as many jobs per day while slashing your fuel expenses and idle time. In short, we’re democratizing software that was previously only available to large companies in the space, and giving small business owners tools to operate more efficiently and better compete with the big guys.

Заявка Lawn Love в YC, реконструирована

Заявка Y Combinator

Lawn Love, батч Summer 2014. Реальные вопросы из анкеты, ответы из публичных данных.

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Company

Company name

Lawn Love

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Modern, on-demand lawn care service.

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

We built a software platform that lets customers get an instant, personalized quote for lawn care using satellite imagery and data, then book local lawn professionals through the platform. On the pros' side, we provide tools that simplify scheduling, payments, and routing to help them serve more customers efficiently.

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

We live and operate out of San Diego, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Diego has a strong market for lawn care and access to local lawn professionals. It also offers a good tech talent pool and a cost environment better than the Bay Area for early-stage growth.

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Это реальная заявка Lawn Love в YC?

Нет. Y Combinator держит поданные заявки в приватности. Это реконструкция: реальные вопросы формы YC, ответы на которые основаны на публичных данных Lawn Love (заметки о запуске, бэкграунд фаундеров, описание продукта). Это показывает, как компания вроде Lawn Love представила бы себя YC, а не текст, который они подали.