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Re: List of YC Companies

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Post by tzury »

That's totaling $ 75M.

Even if you multiple this amount by 2. Dividing this into the number of companies makes one wonder about the exposure rate in hte media for YC startups. Seems like are getting headlines and cover stories more than others.

Saying, for that only, it is worth to join YC. Let alone the weekly meetings (dinners, etc.).

Just for instance, let's just take a look at the following two CrunchBase entries:

1. http://www.crunchbase.com/person/moshe-yanai

2. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/{YC-Funded-Startup-Name-He...

While the first have sold his first startup (XIV) to IBM for $300M, Three year later, he sold his second startup (diligent) to IBM (again) for $165M, ($465M in total), the knowledge of TC about him is nearly zero. All they can tell is that for his new startup (third) he raised $9M.

On the other hand, if you'll wake up Mike arrington in the middle of his deep sleeps and ask him to name 18 YC startups he will do that right away, without even opening his second eye, wouldn't he?

Re: List of YC Companies

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Post by grinich »

points wrote: post #13
pg wrote: post #2

This doesn't seem very accurate, judging from the first couple entries. Textpayme was a morph of Firecrawl, and Club Beta I've never heard of.

Is there an 'official' list that's better? Seems a useful thing to have.

Why would it be useful?

Re: List of YC Companies

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Post by bfung »

what makes a company 'Dead'?

buxfer might or might not fit into this category, the site is still up and functional, but it doesn't seem like it's actively maintained: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/17/buxfers-founders-both-work-...

http://getsatisfaction.com/buxfer/topics/is_buxfer_dead

a simple yes/no from one of the founders would be simple enough.

Re: List of YC Companies

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Post by pg »

points wrote: post #13
pg wrote: post #2

This doesn't seem very accurate, judging from the first couple entries. Textpayme was a morph of Firecrawl, and Club Beta I've never heard of.

Is there an 'official' list that's better? Seems a useful thing to have.

There used to be a list of launched companies in the YC faq, but there started to be so many that it was always out of date. We have a list ourselves of course, but we couldn't publish that because it's full of stuff companies don't want disclosed. And it would be a lot of work to tease apart the stuff that's secret from the stuff that isn't. Often I'm not sure myself. So making a publicly viewable list of all the startups seems to fall into the category of things that might be interesting to do, but wouldn't actually help the startups much, and would be a significant amount of work.

Re: List of YC Companies

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Post by ig1 »

grinich wrote: post #24
points wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there an 'official' list that's better? Seems a useful thing to have.

Why would it be useful?

Judging YCombinator performance against Techstars, etc.

Although I think at this point it's pretty indisputable that YC has a substantial lead on any of it's competitors.

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