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Pitch your start-up to venture capitalists, all via Snapchat
Justin Kan, a pioneer in live video streaming, has refashioned his Justin.TV brand for Snapchat — and later this month, will be holding a funding competition for start-ups via the video-focused social network.
"The audience we want to find is on Snapchat, and not Facebook or Twitter," says Kan, who is also a start-up investor in companies like Tilt and Zenefits and a partner in the San Francisco start-up incubator Y Combinator. "It’s what the kids are using."
Y Combinator, which has groomed companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox and Reddit, is looking to make a $20,000 investment in early stage tech companies. Kan says he’d like it to go to high school students, the folks who are on Snapchat all day long.
Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY
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