📙 AI Y Combinator Templates
Templates for preparing for your Y Combinator interview, weekly planners, and guides from other founders
YC Weekly Planner
Schedule your weekly tasks and goals at Y-Combinator and meet your favorite investors. This template includes everything you need to ace your interview!
How to Prepare for YC Interview
Get ready to ace your Y Combinator interview with this step-by-step guide! Learn how to prepare for every, from getting organized to practicing interviews and getting feedback from experts.
Pre-YC Startup School Preparation Checklist
Get ready for Startup School, from creating a pitch deck and finding the right investors to polishing your business model and finding legal support, this checklist covers it all.
Essential Y-Combinator Advice For Startups
Get all the best advice straight from Y-Combinator to help your startup succeed. Our comprehensive guide covers all the essential lessons, including how to optimize your pitch, secure funding, and scale your business.
Y-Combinator Interview
Prepare and practice answers to common questions asked during Y-Combinator interview sessions with this template. Includes sample questions and potential answers to help you ace the interview.
Y Combinator Interview Prep Checklist
A comprehensive checklist of all the steps you need to take to prepare for a Y Combinator interview. From researching YC’s values to formulating thoughtful responses to questions!
A Founder’s Guide to the Y Combinator Interview
Get practical tips and advice for founders who are preparing for the Y Combinator interview. Learn about common questions, how to prepare for the interview, and strategies for success.
YC’s Complete List on How Not to Fail
This easy-to-follow guide covers all the essential steps to help you ace your YC interview. Learn what you need to know to avoid common mistakes and find success.
Y Combinator Templates
Preparing for a Y Combinator pitch can be overwhelming, but with some guidance and organization, you’ll be able to communicate your vision to potential investors and partners in no time.
Take the time to carefully plan and prepare using our templates designed specifically for teams like yours by folks who have gone through the same process.
What Is Y Combinator?
Y Combinator is a Silicon Valley seed money startup accelerator founded in 2005. It helps early-stage startups with funding, mentorship, and resources.
Twice a year, Y Combinator invests $500,000 in promising startups, with a select few of applicants accepted into the program. Airbnb, Quora, Reddit, Stripe, Webflow, and Taskade (that’s us!) are among the thousands of companies the accelerator has supported.
Learn more about Y Combinator and how it has shifted in recent years on our blog.
What Can I Use These Y Combinator Templates For?
You can use our specially designed templates throughout every phase of your Y Combinator journey.
We have several templates to help you prepare for (and ace) that stressful panel interview with the Y Combinator team. We also offer a checklist to help you plan for the intensive eight-week Startup School.
We also have templates for getting the most out of the Y Combinator experience including a pocket guide of essential advice from Y Combinator alumni.
What Are Some Popular Y Combinator Templates That Taskade Have?
Are you looking to get into Y Combinator? Is your business idea strong enough to be accepted into the program? Our top Y Combinator templates can help guide you toward getting your startup off the ground.
Some of our most popular Y Combinator templates include:
- Y Combinator Interview Prep Checklist. Improve your chances of passing the panel interview with this checklist based on the process we went through.
- Pre-YC Startup School Preparation Checklist. Plan your time at Y Combinator’s Startup School, where you can find your startup’s first or next investors.
- YC Weekly Planner. Get the most out of your Y Combinator experience with our four-week planner.
- The Pocket Guide of Essential YC Advice. Gain useful insights into launching your startup with our free checklist.
- YC’s Complete List on How Not to Fail. Learn the do’s and don’ts of growing your startup into a thriving business.
Why Should I Use a Y Combinator Template?
Using our custom-designed Y Combinator templates offers many perks, including:
- Saving you time and effort. Instead of getting caught up in details like formatting and design, go straight to building a compelling product.
- Collaborating with co-founders. Our team communication features—like chat, messaging, and video conferencing—make it easy for you and your co-founders to discuss right on a project page.
- Learning from our own Y Combinator experience. Since we’ve been through the accelerator program ourselves, we’ve created these templates inspired by our journey.
How Do I Use One of These Y Combinator Templates?
Getting started with one of our Y Combinator templates is easy.
Simply add your chosen template to your Taskade Workspace or Folder to get started!
- Sign in to your Taskade account or sign up for free.
- Open the template page and click the ➕ New Project button.
- Choose the Workspace or Folder where you want to add the template.
Customize the template using Taskade’s editing and formatting features.
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Use our templates to create and plan effective meetings that people want to attend. Whether it is your daily stand-up meeting or a quarterly meeting with your marketing team, our templates will make it easy for you to build agendas, assign meeting tasks, and track action items.
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Templates for your video production needs. Create a pre-production checklist and make sure you hit every task with our video production template.
Product Management
Ready to launch the next great product in your market or have you already launched and need to track customer feedback and create a roadmap for future development? Our product management templates give you a great place to get started. You will find templates for roamaps, A/B testing, issue trackers, change requests, and product change logs.
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Templates for preparing for your Y Combinator interview, weekly planners, and guides from other founders
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You will find templates you can customize for your music production. You will find templates for everything from producing your next new song to a mixing workflow checklist.
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These templates will help you to plan your ultimate trip itinerary, for everything from your next family vacation to an exotic getaway. You can also create your very own travel bucket list and check off the destinations as you hit them.
