#business #yc #vicarious-learning Created at 050223 # [Anonymous feedback](https://www.admonymous.co/louis030195) # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought Last modified date: 2023-02-05 Commit: 0 # Related - [[Business/What VCs want]] - [[Business/Investing]] - [[Business/Entrepreneurship/Ideation]] - [[Business/Entrepreneurship/How to get into YC]] - [[Vicarious learning - Software Engineering]] # TODO > [!TODO] TODO # Vicarious learning - YC applications Try to ask yourself these questions: 1. What do I like/dislike in the video 2. If I had 100k at my disposal and I’d be forced to spend it on three companies would I spend it on this one | Company | Company URL | Good | Bad | | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Relativity Space | https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/relativity-space | Show passion, experience, clear | Reading script?, Not sure the pain they are solving | | RevenueCat | https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/revenuecat | Founder-market-fit | Traction? | | Yummy | https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/yummy-inc | Nice traction numbers, no mention of team | Starting a startup because there are no startup in venezuela?, Maybe problem, Competition? | | Koywe | https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/koywe | Kinda role playing, Vision/purpose/mission/, Team+history | No traction number, Problem: no clear link between all humanity's problem and crypto no clear strategy, It's like saying "african are hungry, let's do an AI startup" | | Mono | https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mono-2 | | | | Shotput | https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/shotput | Benefit/problem, Experienced pain [[Founder-market-fit]] | Not much team details, Traction? | | Manatee | https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/manatee | | cold, problem/pain they r solving? dont get what they do, no team details | | Legistify | https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/legistify | clear problem & solution. clear traction | no team details | | Beam | https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/beam | [[Founder-market-fit]] faced problem in pro life, clear solution, clear traction, very well executed overall | no team details | | Digibuild | https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/digibuild | | joke? worst video, they r just talking about previous interview or w/e | | Muse | https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/muse | good team history | did they even mention anything beyond the team? haha | | Vori | https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vori | evoked traction, problem + market size, kinda clear solution, good team history details, skills | bad video quality | I'd invest 50k in Beam I'd invest 50k in Vori maybe not best investing strategy, I don't claim to be expert though :p ## Beyond [[Forecasting]] Now look at these companies numbers and infer if your investing model is accurate, then run backprop accordingly #todo : generate an investment template like [[Forecasting template]] using [[Computing/Obsidian ava|Ava]]