Private Chat with David Chen, CEO of Striking.ly
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Hey Guys,
Vak here. I'm holding a fireside chat with a recent friend, David Chen, CEO/Founder of Strikingly - a Y-Combinator (http://ycominbator.com) funded company. Some of Y-Combinator's successful companies is a long list that you can find here: http://yclist.com/
Here are the notables:
DROPBOX.COM
HEROKU.COM
POSTEROUS.COM
WEPAY.COM
STRIPE.COM
The list goes on and on... but you get the point. YCombinator is the most celebrated and most successful Incubator in the country.
Why this matters? First and foremost, I currently use his product and if many of you know me, I don't have a ton of time on my hands at all. That being said, that's why I started using Strikingly. Been on this for awhile now (6 months).
At any rate, I got wind that David will be in OC. So naturally, I know this would be extremely valuable to the OC Community and am taking advantage of his time here.
At this fireside chat...well more so like a Rome is Burning (sports reference :)) one on one.
Here are a few things that I'd like to cover:
• What's it like to being inside Y-Combinator.
• What makes a Y-Combinator company so successful?
• What happens when a Y-Combinator company fails?
• How to raise $750k and get oversubscribed at $1.5 million?
• How David findd talent to build his team?
• How Strikingly is different from Weebly, Wix and other website generators.
• What is Strikingly's competitive advantage?
• How did he get customers to adopt Strikingly over his competitors?
These are just some of the examples. But rest assure, I'll be grilling David :)
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Meet David Chen CEO of Striking.ly, a Y Combinator-backed startup that takes a mobile-first approach to website building for everyone, including those who have no coding or design experience.
Strikingly (https://www.strikingly.com/), the do-it-yourself (DIY) website creation service, has raised a $1.5 million seed round from SV Angel, Index Ventures, FundersClub, and others for its DIY site builder.
Join us as we talk with David Chen from Striking.ly
The Rockfield Team,
Vak Sambath
Private Chat with David Chen, CEO of Striking.ly