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Re:Justin Kan’s Exec Starts Running Errands For Companies An... by mikeryan on Monday March 26, 2012 @01:34PM (#3757723)
Its funny the Y-Combinator mafia (and I mean that lovingly) can really be such a great tool for these personal services companies like ZeroCater and Exec. I doubt they're forced to participate but its such a great source of initial users. I think for some of these companies this may be a bigger Y-combinator benefit then the mentoring/cash or VC intros.
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Re:Justin Kan’s Exec Starts Running Errands For Companies An... by justin on Monday March 26, 2012 @01:51PM (#3757806)
Our early customers were probably 50% or more YC and we got a bunch of great initial feedback. So yes, this helps a lot.

There is a pay-it-forward mentality -- Justin.tv serves as an early customer for many YC startups.

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Re:Justin Kan’s Exec Starts Running Errands For Companies An... by suhail on Monday March 26, 2012 @03:10PM (#3758181)
A large part of our success thus far is due to that at Mixpanel as well. The founders in our batch gave us tons of feedback for everything they could want.

In fact, 60-70% of every new Y Combinator batch is generally using Mixpanel prior to launch - Exec being no exception ;)

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