Over 11,000 people have applied to be Exec contractors, says Justin Kan in a talk with TechCrunch’s Jordan Crook.  Exec’s vision is being able to easily solve all of consumers’ local services problems.  Mr. Kan says Exec’s biggest challenges in fulfilling that vision primarily involve the logistics of building a service that scales and consumers enjoy.

Justin Kan has been a co-founder of no less than three YC companies: Kiko, Justin.tv, and Exec. He’s also been involved with the founding of Justin.tv spin-off Twitch.tv and Socialcam. Beyond all that, Mr. Kan is a partner and part-time advisor at Y Combinator. I wrote about Exec after it’s expansion to San Diego.  Exec grew […]

Exec is an errand running service that provides companies and individuals access to on-demand personal assistants (for delivery, furniture assembly, research, etc).  Exec now has a workforce of about 300 people and has served on the order of 10,000 customers since launching a year ago with YC Winter 2012.  TechCrunch’s Anthony Ha recently spoke with Exec founder […]

Airbnb’s Brian Chesky and eBay’s John Donahoe often collaborate, according to both CEO’s at Fortune’s Brainstorm TECH Conference.  On a panel discussion, both men described the lessons they have taught each other about building a great company.  Airbnb (YC W09) must continue to learn, and learn fast.  The popular share economy service that lets people stay in unique […]

The 464 startups prior to YC’s current batch have each raised an average of $3.18 million dollars, according to a recent tweet by Paul Graham.  The math on that collectively means those companies have raised over 1.4 billion dollars. Of those companies, here’s what’s raised money in the last couple of weeks.