Instantq
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Instantq was a Y Combinator Summer 2009 company founded by Dana Levine (with Jeffery Xin Shi) and based in California. It built an online platform that let restaurants push just-in-time promotions directly to their customers — a simple tool for operators to upload deals and target nearby or ready-to-order diners, an early form of hyperlocal marketing.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Dana Levine found Instantq and enters Y Combinator's Summer 2009 batch with a platform for restaurant just-in-time promotions.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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