Y Combinator at UChicago

How do you come up with an idea? What does a great founding team look like? How do you raise money from investors?Join Y Combinator partners and alumni for a talk and Q&A. Hear their stories and find out what it's really like to start a startup. Lunch will be served. You can also sign up for one-on-one office hours here [https://apply.ycombinator.com/events/160]. This event will be LIVESTREAMED here: https://media.chicagobooth.edu/Mediasite6/Play/384481fd349544949722eb6122043f931d [https://media.chicagobooth.edu/Mediasite6/Play/384481fd349544949722eb6122043f931d] (Instructions to install Flash in Chrome are here [https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6258784].) ------------------------- About the speakers: _Kat Manalac, Partner, Y Combinator_ Kat  Manalac is a partner at Y COMBINATOR AND ORIGINALLY JOINED AS ITS FIRST DIRECTOR OF OUTREACH. Prior to YC, Kat worked as Chief of Staff to Alexis Ohanian, cofounder of reddit [http://www.reddit.com/]. Before that, she was at WIRED Magazine. Kat attended Northwestern University where she studied communications and worked with the university's Web Use Project [http://webuse.org/]. Kat was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. _Ramón Recuero, Engineer, Y Combinator_ Ramón Recuero founded Netgamix in 2010, a user-generated game platform focused on trivia games. It reached more than 100K MAU & 20K DAU. Afterwards, Ramón joined Zynga and contributed to the release of the first version of their advertising platform and several games. He would then join Moz as an Architect, leading the development of their content marketing product. Nowadays, Ramón is a cryptocurrency advisor and currently works as a hacker for YC. ------------------------- About Y COMBINATOR Y COMBINATOR IS A STARTUP FUND BASED IN MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA. In 2005, Y COMBINATOR DEVELOPED A NEW MODEL OF STARTUP FUNDING. Twice a year they invest a small amount of money in a large number of startups. The startups move to Silicon Valley for 3 months, and the YC partners work closely with each company to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each batch culminates in Demo Day, when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected audience of investors. Y COMBINATOR HAS INVESTED IN OVER 1,464 companies including Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Reddit, Ginkgo Bioworks, and Coinbase. The combined valuation of YC companies is over $80B.