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Is there a good place somewhere to find a list of all the YC alumni? The YC homepage sure ain't it.
Is this not all of them? http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
I keep a list of every YC startup I've found here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l... I compiled the info as part of my master's thesis this summer. Likely not 100% correct, but very close.
My e-mail is in my profile.
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I respectfully disagree. Having all YC funded startups at one place is incredibly useful. I especially dig for stories of funded startups which eventually shutdown so as to learn what went wrong for them inspite of having funding. Maybe one can categorize on basis of _notability_ but the list should have all YC startups.
Having all YC funded startups at one place is incredibly useful There are lots of things which are useful but not notable and do not belong in an encyclopaedia.
A list of companies funded by Y Combinator, unless it's outrageously long (which it wouldn't be at present, right?), might be an entirely sensible thing to have on the WP page about YC even if most of the companies don't deserve their own WP pages.
(Of course there are limits. The WP page about the Oxford English dictionary should not have a section "Words defined in the dictionary".)
I keep a list of every YC startup I've found here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l... I compiled the info as part of my master's thesis this summer. Likely not 100% correct, but very close.
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Having all YC funded startups at one place is incredibly useful There are lots of things which are useful but not notable and do not belong in an encyclopaedia.
The spouse and children of a notable person are not generally notable in their own right (although of course sometimes they are). None the less, an encyclopaedia article about a person might quite reasonably say "She married Joe Blow in 1973. The couple had one child, Oliver; they were divorced in 1984" or whatever. A list of companies funded by Y Combinator, unless it's outrageously long (which it wouldn't be at pre…
YC has funded somewhere around 100 startups, hasn't it?
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Is this not all of them? http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
Unfortunately, no. (If you view source, you get a few more, but that's still not the full list.)
Of all the times I've checked faq.html, I never thought to view the source! A commented-out company seems to mean that the startup officially launched at one point but is now acquired or gone (sometimes reincarnated).
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I respectfully disagree. Having all YC funded startups at one place is incredibly useful. I especially dig for stories of funded startups which eventually shutdown so as to learn what went wrong for them inspite of having funding. Maybe one can categorize on basis of _notability_ but the list should have all YC startups.
Having all YC funded startups at one place is incredibly useful. Yes, and Wikipedia is not that place. You know what would be a good place? Somewhere on the YC website .
This might have made sense in 1900s when Encyclopedias came as huge books where space was extremely limited. But putting in less information (than available) in an Encyclopedia today makes no sense to me. Challenge should be to come up with better information filters so that people get what they are looking for, not limiting information all together.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/19/silicon-valley-elite-fl...
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/18/y-combinator-demo-day-s...
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/14/y-combinators-demo-day-...
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/14/y-combinator-demo-day-r...
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/16/y-combinator-demo-day-t...
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/09/demo-day-y-combinators-...
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/09/the-y-combinator-compan...
Keep in mind every batch had a bunch in stealth mode by Demo Day, so you'd have to do a much more in-depth TC scan to nab them all.
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sigh As a die-hard inclusionist, I'll never understand deletionism... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in...
There is too much information in the world to include it all in Wikipedia. That leads to information dilution , which has the consequence that you cannot find what you are looking for anymore. Die hard inclusionism is as stupid as die hard deletionism. If you cannot understand the opposing viewpoint, you do not understand your own position.
I still wouldn't consider deleting stuff the best solution to that. It just is a matter of organizing the data better. A hard problem, no doubt. I suppose for the YC example, the list of YC Companies could be a separate article.
Maybe this is also a hint as to what the next search engine after Google could provide. I guess that would be more like what Wolfram Alpha had promised to be.
I keep a list of every YC startup I've found here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l... I compiled the info as part of my master's thesis this summer. Likely not 100% correct, but very close.
I've actually been compiling my own list which has details of things like further investment amounts, etc. Once I'm done I'll run a comparision against yours and let you know any differences.
Would you care to share it when your done? I am putting together a wiki/public database of that kind of info (see elsewhere) and finding reliable data is something I haven't had a free week to do yet :D