Heyzap (YC W09) launches: The forming of Heyzap and some lessons learnt

Re:Heyzap (YC W09) launches: The forming of Heyzap and some ... by drusenko on Thursday February 05, 2009 @07:07AM (#467640)

a large part of what investors invest in is the team. YC tends to do quite a few second investments, because they've already decided that they believe in the team. i would peg this investment as one of those -- that the idea was much less important in the decision than immad and jude forming the team was.

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Re:Heyzap (YC W09) launches: The forming of Heyzap and some ... by dhimes on Thursday February 05, 2009 @09:10AM (#467802)

Ouch. Then the question this hypothesis brings to mind is, why didn't they have Immad and Jude build a different product?

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Re:Heyzap (YC W09) launches: The forming of Heyzap and some ... by tptacek on Thursday February 05, 2009 @09:48AM (#467861)

Because YC isn't obliged to force teams to change the project ideas that they bring to the table based on any of the hundreds of applications they didn't accept?

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Re:Heyzap (YC W09) launches: The forming of Heyzap and some ... by immad on Thursday February 05, 2009 @12:50PM (#468354)

I am going to put that down to the free thinking nature of Immad and Jude.

YC doesn't make anyone do any product, its the teams choice what they do.

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