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How Did Submittable Change After Getting Into Y Combinator

Y Combinator boosted Submittable's ambitious to be bold and to grow big. Michael and team were in their early 40s, and a YC they saw a lot of younger founders, hungry to win. They saw what they were really up against, something that was not obvious back in Missoula.

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How do you tell your investors you have cancer? - Michael FitzGerald, CEO of Submittable ·

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  1. How Did Submittable Founders Pay for Their Business in the Early DaysSubmittable started around 2009 and for two years, before getting into Y Combinator, most of the founders had kept their day jobs while working on Submittable…
  2. What Did Michael FitzGerald Learn About Growing a Company in MontanaEarly on, hiring was definitely not effortless and it took a particular kind of person to live in Missoula, MT.
  3. What Key Breakthrough Helped Submittable Hire Senior People to Work in Missoula, MontanaAt first, Submittable was struggling to get talent to work in Missoula.
  4. What Are Some Activities Available in Missoula, MTMontana is an outdoorsy state. You can surf and fly-fish in the middle of downtown Missoula, and you can go skiing just a short 15-mile drive away.
  5. Is Submittable Trying to Be a Remote-first CompanyMichael and his business partners wanted to build Submittable as a kind of company they would want to work for, in Montana.
  6. What Is the Hard Part About Building a Business in Cancer Support What Do People Go Through When They Get CancerPeople are very sick. As a society we let people with chronic disease go broke. Medication is crazy-expensive. Most of the money goes to administration.
  7. Where Can Patients Find Hospitals That Offer HAI Pump Surgery?Michael FitzGerald, CEO of Submittable, told Crazy Wisdom he started haipump.com while he was being treated for cancer.
  8. Why Do We Need Privacy Laws Around Medical DataIf we could all collectively upload and analyze our genetic data, we'd find the solution to our health problems much faster than we would otherwise, so why…

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