Hyperink
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Hyperink was a San Francisco ebook-publishing startup founded in January 2011 by Kevin Gao (with Min Ming Lo). A Y Combinator Winter 2011 company, it reinvented publishing as a fast, niche-first service: it paired aspiring authors with professional journalists who co-authored books in under a month at under $1,000 production cost, and paid authors up to 50% royalties. It raised $1.2 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures and others. Y Combinator now lists it as Inactive.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded and launched
Hyperink launched in January 2011 as a next-generation ebook publishing platform from Y Combinator's Winter 2011 batch.
- Seed funding
In October 2011 Hyperink raised $1.2 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Launch Capital and angel investors.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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