{"id":5422,"date":"2019-09-12T06:29:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T11:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/?p=5422"},"modified":"2019-09-12T06:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T11:29:17","slug":"will-any-of-these-yc-companies-materially-change-brick-and-mortar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/12\/will-any-of-these-yc-companies-materially-change-brick-and-mortar\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Any of These YC Companies Materially Change Brick and Mortar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YC - or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ycombinator.com\/\">Y Combinator<\/a> - is a prestigious startup accelerator in Silicon Valley. Boasting an acceptance rate lower than those of Harvard and Stanford, YC matriculates \"startups\" that are ready for hypergrowth. In our observation YC chooses going-entity \"startups\" and banmboozles founders into a depressed valuation to get their shares at a below-market price before institutional capital steps in.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That said, YC graduates two classes per year: one in summer and one in winter. Below are YC's latest summer graduates that focus on brick and mortar, and our analysis of their prospective performance.<\/p><div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/log-in\/\">log in<\/a> to read the rest of this content.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YC &#8211; or Y Combinator &#8211; is a prestigious startup accelerator in Silicon Valley. Boasting an acceptance rate lower than those of Harvard and Stanford, YC matriculates &#8220;startups&#8221; that are ready for hypergrowth. In our observation YC chooses going-entity &#8220;startups&#8221; and banmboozles founders into a depressed valuation to get their shares at a below-market price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solutions","category-merchants","category-pos","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81nA2-1ps","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reformingretail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/a1.jpeg?fit=600%2C337&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5422"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5537,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions\/5537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}