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Re: List of YC Companies

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Post by ig1 »

tzury wrote: post #21

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…

Techcrunch predominantly covers consumer startups, b2b startups in general get much less coverage. Crunchbase has better b2b coverage, but by-and-large it's because companies have added themselves (and naturally smaller startups have more incentive to do this, so you'll find more recent b2b startups than older ones).

Re: List of YC Companies

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Post by ig1 »

bkrausz wrote: post #6
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.

Jed (the source spreadsheet maintainer) does a really good job of keeping the newer companies up to date with public info, but it's hard to find a lot of public info on YC companies before the fact that they were YC was newsworthy.

Does someone have Jed's contact details, I did a lot of research on this for a blog post a while back, probably makes sense for me send some of the corrections his way.

Re: List of YC Companies

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Post by portman »

pg wrote: post #28
points wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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There used to be a list of launched companies in the YC faq, but there started to be so many that it was always out of date.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 st…

I think this comment at 3:51 PM EST on 10/17/2010 may be the official death knell of structured data.

A few years ago, YC would have maintained portfolio data in a spreadsheet or database. But in today's world, it's probably in a wiki.

It might be surprising that an uberhacker like PG doesn't have a custom database of YC startups (which would, by definition, make it trivial to export the "non-secret" stuff). That's why I think this comment speaks volumes about how -- even amongst supernerds who think in a systematic, structured way -- a loose affiliation of hypertext documents is the preferred way to capture and record institutional knowledge.

Or maybe it is in a spreadsheet and PG is just lazy. But I doubt it.

Re: List of YC Companies

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Post by Jd »

portman wrote: post #34
pg wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 st…

I think this comment at 3:51 PM EST on 10/17/2010 may be the official death knell of structured data. A few years ago, YC would have maintained portfolio data in a spreadsheet or database. But in today's world, it's probably in a wiki. It might be surprising that an uberhacker like PG doesn't have a custom database of YC startups (which would, by definition, make it trivial to export the "non-secret" stuff). That's w…

spreadsheet != laziness (at least, not necessarily)

Re: List of YC Companies

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Post by lmx »

Hey all, I'm glad to see this has attracted some attention. I originally made it for myself to get an overview of all the startups in one place. I couldn't find an official list and the spreadsheet I linked was the best I could find, but I can't even sort it.

The data is pulled from the spreadsheet, but unfortunately it's not all accurate. The estimated aquisition price is estimated by the author of the original spreadsheet. Also, a number of domains are defunct, but the startups aren't listed as dead or exited. And as pg points out, some names are also wrong.

There are several other bugs I'm aware of too. I just wanted to get something functional out to see if anyone was actually interested. I'll fix things up and add more features when I have time (who the acquirer was, link to a press release).

I was thinking of making this into an open wiki, as there's no one reliable source to pull data from. It'd also be much easier to maintain.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone!

Re: List of YC Companies

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Post by jackowayed »

Jd wrote: post #35
portman wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this comment at 3:51 PM EST on 10/17/2010 may be the official death knell of structured data. A few years ago, YC would have maintained portfolio data in a spreadsheet or database. But in today's world, it's probably in a wiki. It might be surprising that an uberhacker like PG doesn't have a custom database of YC startups (which would, by definition, make it trivial to export the "non-secret" stuff). That's w…

spreadsheet != laziness (at least, not necessarily)

I think his point was that if it's in a spreadsheet, it would only take a few minutes to copy the "name" column, excluding all startups where the "launched" column indicates that they're still in stealth.

He wasn't calling using a spreadsheet lazy; he was calling using one and still being unwilling to compile a list of YC startups lazy. Of course, PG is busy enough that I wouldn't blame him anyway (but he does have people working for him to do things like that).

Re: List of YC Companies

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Post by jedc »

ig1 wrote: post #33
bkrausz wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jed (the source spreadsheet maintainer) does a really good job of keeping the newer companies up to date with public info, but it's hard to find a lot of public info on YC companies before the fact that they were YC was newsworthy.

Does someone have Jed's contact details, I did a lot of research on this for a blog post a while back, probably makes sense for me send some of the corrections his way.

Just check my HN profile. :)

And I would absolutely appreciate any/all corrections. I know the early years of YC data aren't as accurate as the last few.

Re: List of YC Companies

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Post by bigbang »

Here is an old blog post (not sure how accurate it is), but it has info on some other companies as well,

http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2009/12/analyzing-y-combinator...

Heres the summary according to the post,

    * YC S05 - 1 Active /3 Failed / 2 Acquired / 2 Other
    * YC W06 - 5 Active /1 Failed / 2 Acquired
    * YC S06 - 3 Active /6 Failed / 1 Unknown
    * YC W07 - 5 Active /4 Failed / 4 Acquired / 2 Unknown
    * YC S07 - 12 Active /4 Failed / 3 Acquired
    * YC W08 - 9 Active /10 Failed / 1 Acquired / 1 Unknown
    * YC S08 - 17 Active /3 Failed / 1 Acquired / 1 Unknown
    * YC W09 - 14 Active /1 Failed / 1 Stealth
    * YC S09 - 16 Active /1 Acquired /9 Stealth

Re: List of YC Companies

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Post by c1sc0 »

portman wrote: post #34
pg wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 st…

I think this comment at 3:51 PM EST on 10/17/2010 may be the official death knell of structured data. A few years ago, YC would have maintained portfolio data in a spreadsheet or database. But in today's world, it's probably in a wiki. It might be surprising that an uberhacker like PG doesn't have a custom database of YC startups (which would, by definition, make it trivial to export the "non-secret" stuff). That's w…

Well, in all geekiness, pg could release the structure of 'the list' without revealing the actual data & put an end to all of this structured vs. unstructured speculation. Just sayin'.
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