This Week at YC: YC W21 Virtual Demo Day

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YC W21 Virtual Demo Day
On March 23, YC will host our 32nd Demo Day live over Zoom. This one day event will feature founders from 45 countries and startups in every sector — from healthcare and fintech to consumer and B2B software. Every company will have one minute to present.

YC’s Spring Tour 2021
We are excited to announce our 2021 Spring Outreach Tour. On this tour, our goal is to meet founders and future founders, introduce them to the YC community, and share our learnings from helping thousands of startups launch and grow.

YC's Go-To-Market Jobs Expo is March 18th
We are hosting our first Go-To-Market Jobs Expo on March 18th, specifically for people looking for non-engineering roles at YC startups. We’ll have 20+ YC startups that are looking for sales people, marketing experts, growth specialists and operators, among others. All companies are well-funded and growing quickly, and are looking for versatile candidates to help them scale their business.

Convoy: The Future of Truck Freight
Online marketplaces bring efficiency to traditional sectors. They offer a better user experience and increase margins for participants. They can accrue huge value by reducing friction and aggregating supply and demand — particularly because they have the ability to build network effects and economies of scale. We have seen this play out across several business-to-consumer verticals over the past decade: Airbnb in hospitality, Instacart in grocery, DoorDash in food delivery, and Lyft in transportation.

How to Start a Biotech Company on a Budget
Running a biotech company is capital intensive, and this can make it intimidating to get started. Founders sometimes face a chicken and egg problem: how do you make progress without millions of dollars in funding, and how do you raise millions of dollars in funding without having made progress?

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