LaunchHear
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
LaunchHear was a Y Combinator Winter 2010 startup founded by Alex Krupp and Allan Young. It was a platform for introducing new and unreleased products to bloggers and digital influencers, cutting the cost of sending free review products to bloggers by 10x, and it hosted Swagapalooza, an invitation-only event for top-followed bloggers.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded and launched
Founded in 2010; presented at Y Combinator's Winter 2010 Demo Day as a platform connecting new products with bloggers and tweeters.
- Wound down
The company ceased operations; Y Combinator batch databases mark it as dead. No public shutdown announcement or date was found.
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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