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All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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Re: All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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Post by teej »

lpolovets wrote: post #2

I'm surprised this includes non-public stats like MRR metrics. Is that normal for a TechCrunch demo day summary?

I haven't been to a demo day in a while but it's typically been split into an "on the record" group and an "off the record" group. Startups like to share their MRR number because it can help grab the attention of potential investors.

Re: All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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Post by lpolovets »

teej wrote: post #3
lpolovets wrote: post #2

I'm surprised this includes non-public stats like MRR metrics. Is that normal for a TechCrunch demo day summary?

I haven't been to a demo day in a while but it's typically been split into an "on the record" group and an "off the record" group. Startups like to share their MRR number because it can help grab the attention of potential investors.

Yup. But afaik most founders don't want this info to be public. (I'm an investor and was at demo day. I seem to recall that previous TC coverage described what each company did without exposing metrics, but I could be wrong.)

Re: All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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Post by callmevlad »

lpolovets wrote: post #4
teej wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't been to a demo day in a while but it's typically been split into an "on the record" group and an "off the record" group. Startups like to share their MRR number because it can help grab the attention of potential investors.

Yup. But afaik most founders don't want this info to be public. (I'm an investor and was at demo day. I seem to recall that previous TC coverage described what each company did without exposing metrics, but I could be wrong.)

As far back as 4 years ago, it was standard practice to have revenue/growth/traction info published in TC - e.g. https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/20/y-combinator-demo-day-summ...

Re: All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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Post by kornish »

Personal favorite snippet from the article:

> With this pedigree, PullRequest has managed to draw interest from 450 teams. Though only a portion of these are actually using the service, PullRequest touts a $136 million annualized revenue run rate.

From Crunchbase: founded May, 2017.

As a disclaimer, I'm no accountant, but that just seems downright deliberately misleading. Their standard plan is $49/mo.

Re: All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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Post by trcollinson »

esaym wrote: post #5

Wish we had a list of what they are all using on the front and back ends.

Although I think that might be interesting, would it actually be valuable? Serious question honestly, what would that do for us? How would we use that data?
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