the design is great. i checked out your credits page and you listed blueprint. you must have used something else as well to help design the website. please explain.
YCPages - List of Y Combinator companies, founders and jobs with statistics
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
This statement basically could not be less accurate. The NFL itself thought there was a huge problem with the lack of black coaches in the NFL, so it took a pro-active approach by making the Rooney Rule ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney_Rule ), in which a minority head coach must be interviewed (not hired), in the case of a head coaching vacancy. And what happened? Well the number of minority coaches role greatly…
I don't follow football, but I do watch the superbowl, and I frequently see teams with black head coaches on the field.
It's easy to pretend there are no barriers, or that the barriers are related to talent, but whether YC is biased or not (I don't think it is), this says a lot about how much we lose as a society when talent goes untapped for no good reason.
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#53Other data points that might be interesting if you could track them down: 1. How long it took companies to exit. 2. Financing raised (also against age of the company, so average individual rounds raised and average time between rounds). 3. Running expenses (perhaps broken down: legal, hardware, people, marketing/ads, etc.) 4. Revenue. 5. Userbase growth. Asking a lot, but would be great information to have. :)
With all the contact information available if you really want to know something like this then why not fire off a mail. My perception is that the guys that get funded are usually just decent guys in the most part, sure they wouldn't mind if the information isn't too obtrusive.
Good call, I'll try this near the end of the month and post the results if I can get a big enough data set.
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#54Why just track YC? Why not open it up to all the tech incubators or the entire startup scene and have something really useful and a competitor to crunchbase.
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#55Maybe it would be good to have some filters for active, acquired, etc...
This is added now.
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#56Wait, I thought there were like 40 companies in the w11 batch?
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#57Re: YCPages - List of Y Combinator companies, founders and jobs with statistics
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Added to my TODO list and moved to top of the list.
I can't find the contact email on the site - where should we submit suggestions, feedback, etc?
Hi, It is on the credits page.
Here is it anyway, ycpages at gmail dot com.
Many thanks, any feedback would be highly appreciated.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can somebody who is more versed in this board explain to me why a comment like this would be downvoted? I don't understand what is wrong with this type of comment. Additionally, the comment I made responding to it was downvoted. I'm honestly curious...
When I got here it was just one downvote, so it's probably risky to ascribe one reason to it, and this is way too much of a generalization anyway, but I'll put it out there anyway... I've met a lot of hacker types who are vehement about the fact that they are not racist or sexist, to the point that they take offense that women are kept out of technical fields due to sexism. I believe this could lead to a kneejerk rea…
Interesting and informative. Thank you for the insight.
Re: YCPages - List of Y Combinator companies, founders and jobs with statistics
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
This statement basically could not be less accurate. The NFL itself thought there was a huge problem with the lack of black coaches in the NFL, so it took a pro-active approach by making the Rooney Rule ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney_Rule ), in which a minority head coach must be interviewed (not hired), in the case of a head coaching vacancy. And what happened? Well the number of minority coaches role greatly…
I don't follow football, but I do watch the superbowl, and I frequently see teams with black head coaches on the field. It's easy to pretend there are no barriers, or that the barriers are related to talent, but whether YC is biased or not (I don't think it is), this says a lot about how much we lose as a society when talent goes untapped for no good reason.
Just an FYI, only 4 black coaches have ever coach in the superbowl. Maybe you're watching reruns?