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Taro, two questions:

1. What was your thought process when pivoting from a dating site to AnyPerk? They seem to me like two unrelated things.

2. You say that your burnout was very low, but living three guys in a motel room, surely it has to be hard from a mental perspective, how did you guys cope with that?


Thanks for the questions.

1. We pivoted a several times during YC days. Initially we were trying to pivot into similar ideas. (standard "pivots") but after discussing really hard internally, we decided to think what we really are excited about regardless of what we had been working on, and we felt AnyPerk is the idea that we wanted to work for the next 10~ years.

2. I have to admit that it was not easy, but when you are working on your best idea with best people you know is so exciting that you can feel so positive about everything.


AnyPerk.com (YC W12) has partnered many of those companies and provide that feature! https://anyperk.com/


AnyPerk.com is a great platform for providing employee perks and discounts. It works for companies of all sizes. We implemented AnyPerk at my last company when we were 52 people. And, we are implementing it at my new company that has less than 10 employees. Size doesn't matter. Great service. Highly recommend.


AnyPerk is group discounts for corporations. It's not perks. It's a misnomer.


It's great to hear that someone who didn't have the creds was able to get hired at a start-up. Too often the best people don't get noticed.


I think the best way to get the "permission" should not be from any of investors, more from customers.

With many of customers who love your product,you should be able to attract investors or incubators more easily.


"Sell before you build"

This is what I learned from YC. It was from Paul Buchheit.


I'm the jackass who downvoted you...it was by accident, I meant to upvote. I just don't have the option to go back on it, sorry.


fixed :)


Thanks! Not sure how you fixed it (or how you know its fixed) but if you're an admin, I'd love to know why anything I submit is automatically 'dead'. Email is aashayk@umich.edu, thanks again :)


He probably 'fixed' it by up voting the comment you accidentally down voted.


Probably he fixed up just by up voting.


I'm glad you brought this up--I use it as much as any other. Our iteration time for creating a fake mock-up and trying to sell it is only days. We can get through 5 tests in the time it takes to build one of them.


This was probably the most important discovery I made in the startup process. Helps guarantee that you make something people want.


Would love to hear you elaborate on this...


I can't speak for Paul B but there's a great book called Ready Fire Aim by Michael Masterson that focuses on this technique that I'd recommend.


AnyPerk.com (YC12w) has engineering team in Tokyo as well.


Thanks for the support, we just redesigned our site! Please let us know if you have any other suggestions, design or otherwise.


Thanks for the advice, I have reached out and learnt a great deal from some of their team members and hope to continue to learn from both failed and successful startups in the space. There are other similar and very successful companies in other countries, and thought it would be great to have US startup employees be rewarded as well.


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