[1] A procrastinator is someone who has already decided, but is simply waiting for a better time to start.
— every founder before they were one
In 2005, starting a company was expensive. Today, the bottleneck is your procrastination to start. EOY Combinator developed a new model of getting things done: Make something by end of year.
EOYC ends on Demo Night on Dec 31. The full cohort is invited to present live and celebrate into New Year's with a resolution that already came true.
Everyone starts. From zero, or from the half-finished idea already sitting in your notes. Main thing is you get started.
Kill your zombie. If there is still no traction by now, the idea does not get to make it into November. You pivot, publicly, that week.
A global salesathon, not a hackathon. Whoever closes the most sales wins. Stripe numbers or it didn't happen.
Five minutes, live product, real numbers even if the number is zero. Then, and only then, the year is allowed to end.
“The best time to start a company was last year. The second best time is this year, and the clock is ticking.”
— Claude, advisor and friend of EOYC


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Someday Labs, EOYC
Said "next year" for six years straight. Registered the company in week two.


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Later Inc, EOYC
Had eleven notes apps and zero customers. Now has one of each, plus revenue.


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Not Yet Co, EOYC
Waited for the perfect idea. Shipped the third-best one in November instead.
At least start something this year still.
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