What Happens After Y Combinator: The Marathon After The Sprint

Startup founders obsess about "winning" Demo Day. But even the winners will struggle to build sustainable businesses.

As she cleans out the hacker house where she and her employees have spent the past three months, Liz Wessel is experiencing a bit of an emotional whiplash. "We're going back to our normal life," Wessel tells me earlier this week, eyeing a mostly boxed-up living room in Los Altos, California, that served as the temporary headquarters of Wessel's company Campus Job. The recruiting startup, which Wessel cofounded last year, was one of 114 companies taking part in the current Y Combinator batch, which I've been following over the past three months.

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