YC Stats Winter 2015 • Hacker News Board

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by edmack » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 4:54 PM UTC

katm wrote: post #16

vrp101 wrote: post #14

The SketchDeck link redirects to the page itself. I'm sure they would appreciate some YC traffic.

Roger - updated!

Thanks :)

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by rubiquity » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 4:54 PM UTC

Would you be able to provide a breakdown on the industry of the companies beyond B2B, B2C, etc? I'm curious how many are in developer tooling, oil & gas and so on and so forth.

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by mtviewdave » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 4:56 PM UTC

It would be interesting to see a breakdown by founder team size.

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by mathgeek » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 5:07 PM UTC

pyrrhotech wrote: post #7

I think the rising age of founder trend is a good one. Probably means the snapchat/whatsapp/instagram gold mine is nearly dry and some actually difficult-to-implement and domain-knowledge requiring ideas are starting to come into focus again.

It could also be a sign of many different things. My "gut guess" is that founders with some startup experience that now are heading out on their own are being selected for.

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by cllns » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 5:07 PM UTC

  Companies with a female founder: 25 (21.93%)

  Companies with a Black founder: 9 (7.89%)

  Companies with a Hispanic founder: 6 (5.26%)

They should release the stats of the number of people overall, not the number of companies with at least one member who fits into one of those groups.

For example, say X% of the people are female, etc.

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 5:08 PM UTC

pyrrhotech wrote: post #7

I think the rising age of founder trend is a good one. Probably means the snapchat/whatsapp/instagram gold mine is nearly dry and some actually difficult-to-implement and domain-knowledge requiring ideas are starting to come into focus again.

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Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by katm » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 5:12 PM UTC

thearn4 wrote: post #15

I'm interested to hear more about the one aerospace startup that they funded in this class.

They haven't launched publicly yet. You'll hear about them soon.

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by adevine » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 5:12 PM UTC

codeonfire wrote: post #25

illdave wrote: post #2

Interesting to note that the average founder age is 30.27 (median is 29). Not that that's old, of course - just that I imagined it'd be younger.

Why would you not assume the opposite? I would assume the most experienced people with the most knowledge, contacts, and money to be in their 40s and 50s.

Well, a big point of YC is that it provides the "contacts and money". And of course anyone who is further along in their career has more at risk by going to a startup.

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by bengali3 » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 5:12 PM UTC

monsterix wrote: post #4

Age of the eldest entrepreneur @YCcombinator = 66? I sure want to know more about this person, and their start_up! I'm a relatively older entrepreneur too, fall right on the right side of the median. Recently I had been been thinking of applying to YC. But couldn't convince myself for it, and my age was one of the reasons.

whats the downside to applying?

Re: YC Stats Winter 2015

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Post by pavlov » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 5:16 PM UTC

solve wrote: post #6

illdave wrote: post #2

Interesting to note that the average founder age is 30.27 (median is 29). Not that that's old, of course - just that I imagined it'd be younger.

The median age has been pinned to the '84 - '85 age group since the start.

If this is true, maybe there's something particularly interesting about the '84/'85 generation.

These people were about 10 years old when the Web happened and 15 years old when Napster and digital cameras took off, so they probably haven't written too many snailmail letters, bought CDs or taken photos on film.

Perhaps that gives them a perspective that's more "digitally native" than older people, yet they have more experience than the '90s-born generation.

(I'm one of those "old" people I guess, being born in 1980...)