MicroEval
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
MicroEval was a San Francisco startup in Y Combinator's summer 2012 batch that tried to digitize the painful employee performance-review process. Founders Ryan Jackson, Samantha O'Keefe and Ernie Park launched the beta days before YC Demo Day in August 2012, where they pitched a product that moved the largely paper-based review process online: supervisors could rate employees' productivity and work ethic in a few minutes, with the system prompting employees for additional feedback over time. Early users included Square, Zappos and MIT. The revenue model was simple - the first 100 companies paid $1 per employee. The company raised about $20,000 from Y Combinator. No dated shutdown announcement was found.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Launched
MicroEval launched at Y Combinator's summer 2012 Demo Day, digitizing employee performance reviews; early users included Square, Zappos and MIT.
- Status
No dated shutdown announcement was found; PitchBook lists a 'Bankruptcy: Admin/Reorg' deal dated January 1, 2013, but that date appears to be a placeholder and could not be verified.
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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