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Re: YCPages - List of Y Combinator companies, founders and jobs with statistics

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Post by SwellJoe »

pg wrote: post #19
SwellJoe wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Errors I noticed from the batch we did (W2007): SocialMoth is no longer active. Paul is involved with Square (which is doing very well). View 3 was shuttered soon after the batch and everybody went back to school, I believe. White Noise is defunct. I'm not sure what Sean is up to these days. Snipshot was a non-batch YC company, I believe (like Justin.TV). Funded by YC based on an existing relationship from a previous…

Snipshot was W06.

I thought Beau demoed something on demo day with our batch...but I may be misremembering.

Re: YCPages - List of Y Combinator companies, founders and jobs with statistics

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Post by rajeshrajappan »

Many thanks for the feedback guys. Much appreciated.

I have lots planned for YCPages. The first step was get it out there and get the feedback. I am working on adding the funding details at the moment.

I have also posted a question on Quora. any help on that would be great.

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-technologies-used-by-YComb...

Re: YCPages - List of Y Combinator companies, founders and jobs with statistics

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Post by birken »

SwellJoe wrote: post #16
CloudOps42 wrote: post #4

There's a real problem with the sex distribution numbers. Not saying it's a YC problem, but it is a problem. There're too many talented women out there to lose them to other industries. When we can pull them over here, watch out!

Jessica and pg have both spoken/written at length on the subject. They want to fund female-founded companies, but nearly none apply. I've personally experienced this. I've tried to talk lots of people into applying for YC, or just starting their own company, over the years since we took part in 2007. About 50% of the people I've tried to convince were women. Only men applied or went on to start businesses. Not a sing…

I know of one incredibly talented potential female founder who applied with a killer idea and was rejected. I think it is very likely that YC has a strong bias towards men, which this data certainly supports.

I'm also not blaming YC for having a bias towards men. I think silicon valley in general has a bias towards men, and since YC is a for profit business they are making economically sound decisions. However, I think the situation sucks in general, and saying any fault lies with women is really unfair.

Re: YCPages - List of Y Combinator companies, founders and jobs with statistics

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Post by pmjordan »

birken wrote: post #35
SwellJoe wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jessica and pg have both spoken/written at length on the subject. They want to fund female-founded companies, but nearly none apply. I've personally experienced this. I've tried to talk lots of people into applying for YC, or just starting their own company, over the years since we took part in 2007. About 50% of the people I've tried to convince were women. Only men applied or went on to start businesses. Not a sing…

I know of one incredibly talented potential female founder who applied with a killer idea and was rejected. I think it is very likely that YC has a strong bias towards men, which this data certainly supports. I'm also not blaming YC for having a bias towards men. I think silicon valley in general has a bias towards men, and since YC is a for profit business they are making economically sound decisions. However, I thi…

They've said in the past that the percentage of applicants who are women is the same as the percentage among accepted founders. Any bias therefore must happen at the self-selecting stage unless the female applicants are objectively better on average.

If you assume that the YC partners aren't biased (do you have any evidence otherwise?) this implies the self-selection isn't based on capability. (i.e. women seem equally confident to apply as men with the same abilities) Which pretty much just leaves us with the usual statistic of the percentage of women working in tech being low.

Re: YCPages - List of Y Combinator companies, founders and jobs with statistics

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Post by mbesto »

CloudOps42 wrote: post #4

There's a real problem with the sex distribution numbers. Not saying it's a YC problem, but it is a problem. There're too many talented women out there to lose them to other industries. When we can pull them over here, watch out!

This is like saying there's a real problem with the lack of black coaches in the NFL. So what? May the best people be suited for the job, regardless of race, gender, age, etc.

Do I think more women should be involved? Sure, I'm all for equality. But any such effort to detract women from other industries, I think would be better suited by detracting talented people (women and men) from other industries (say like maybe Wall St.?)

On the other hand, is there a deep rooted reason in our system why women are detracted from joining the tech startup scene? Possibly. Maybe that's where some effort should go first.

Re: YCPages - List of Y Combinator companies, founders and jobs with statistics

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Post by rajeshrajappan »

niccolop wrote: post #14
snowmaker wrote: post #10

Great resource! Is there a way that YC founders / employees can contact you with updates or corrections?

I agree! This is great - should we email you with any updates?

Yes please. Anything to help this site useful or anything I can do to make it better.

Re: YCPages - List of Y Combinator companies, founders and jobs with statistics

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Post by tptacek »

birken wrote: post #35
SwellJoe wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jessica and pg have both spoken/written at length on the subject. They want to fund female-founded companies, but nearly none apply. I've personally experienced this. I've tried to talk lots of people into applying for YC, or just starting their own company, over the years since we took part in 2007. About 50% of the people I've tried to convince were women. Only men applied or went on to start businesses. Not a sing…

I know of one incredibly talented potential female founder who applied with a killer idea and was rejected. I think it is very likely that YC has a strong bias towards men, which this data certainly supports. I'm also not blaming YC for having a bias towards men. I think silicon valley in general has a bias towards men, and since YC is a for profit business they are making economically sound decisions. However, I thi…

"I know of one [...] . I think it is very likely that YC has a strong bias [...]" is an interesting way to construct an argument. :)
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