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Researches have shown over and over again that the best, most profitable and sustainable marketing channel is word-of-mouth. Companies such as Dropbox, Paypal, Airbnb and Uber have become household names because they knew how to leverage referral marketing at scale.

Yet, most companies rely on inefficient marketing channels to attracts new customers, such as advertising (expensive and complicated), content marketing (slow) or do nothing at all because they think that referral marketing is the game of the big guys and they can’t afford it.

So Maitre built something simple that everybody can use, without being a developer — a tool that makes it easy to grow your business through referral campaigns.

We interviewed Manuel Frigerio, Founder of Maitre to know more.


did u find any dead links from the list I posted ? Please let me know if you find.I checked before posting each link .


Do let me know of any other links from YC partners or Alumni that could be useful for startups applying for Y Combinator.


I think you missed this one from Aptly, posted just last week: http://www.nancyhua.com/2014/10/08/successful-y-combinator-s...

edit: Also, this site has a list of interview experiences of people who got accepted and rejected: http://ycuniverse.com/yc-applying-interviewees

In some ways reading about those who got rejected is a little more informative.


Thanks will update now.I added ycuniverse link in other resources section already!


Nice list.

I wrote a blog post about 'Startup Istanbul 2014'. I have a section with quick advises from Michael Siebel to overseas entrepreneurs. It's pretty small list but I think it's a good quick-list of some general guidelines. The post is here[1] in case you wanna take a look.

[1] http://www.convalesco.org/blog/2014/10/05/startup-istanbul-r...


Thanks ,good read .I have read his advice before


Available 7 days a week. 9am to midnight. Including holidays.Can be there in 1 hour or schedule in advance.Anywhere you want, when you want, starting at $99.


google would buy http://mightytext.net/ - iMessage for android founders by ex-googlers.


You do whatever it takes to get what you want!People like it when you are just not ready to give up and try hard genuinely!


http://www.walletkit.com/ WalletKit is a SaaS platform for businesses to create,manage and deliver to its customers digital Boarding passes,Tickets,Store cards and Coupons for mobile wallets like Apple passbook and Google Wallet.


Betting on Instacart and Plivo to be the best out of this batch. Delight.io,viacycle,Bufferbox,virool,vayable and zapier come next.

The last supper picture has 15 disciples ;)


Don’t take no for an answer! YES is around the corner!.There are always back doors to opportunities if you want them badly enough.The key is transforming the 'no' from a flat refusal into an obstacle to be surmounted. If you can deal with the obstacle,your request is more likely to be granted.Whenever someone tells you 'no,' there's almost always a way to turn it into a 'yes.'Period!


Interesting idea..Love it just signed up.


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