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#22Sam also just tweeted that 300 YC companies are no longer around. Amazing how much transparent they are and how great YC is at picking and training. So many really crazy ideas that most would think are insane and YC is able to find the ones that make sense and help them. Seems like that's a bit less than 1/3 of all YC companies Tweet is here: https://twitter.com/sama/status/636586179970752512
YC filters applicants for dedicated founders who will not give up easily. It is amazing what can be accomplished by manic perseverance.
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#23I keep reading that seed investment firms consider it "good" if 4 out of every 10 startups they fund turn out to be something of value. Over time this is showing to be true.
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#24Interesting way to bury the lede that 32 companies received a Fellowship offer. The estimate was 20. ( http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/20/y-combinator-just-introduce... )
Honestly if we were prepared to take 320 that would have been good. The quality was outstanding.
I really underestimated the amount of applications that you guys received. I was thinking maybe a few hundred, like 800 or 900, at the most, but 6500? I was way off.
I was wondering though, if the Fellowship program showed great results and you guys decide to continue it, how much equity would you ask for? Have you thought that far ahead yet?
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#25Valuations are numbers coming from thin air,, I wonder what will be the total profits of YC company. When i ask profits ,its actual net profit ,, not some accounting gimmick !
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#26Number of companies funded by YC that have shut down: ~300
Does this include aqui-hires?
Also, would you know how many companies rejected by YC are worth more than $1 billion? Zero or non-zero? :)
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#27how good or bad are those numbers? only 8/970 companies are worth > 1b and 40 are worth over 100M. I assume YC is doing great for themselves, so I'm wondering, what is the rule of thumb to say an investment was successful? (for YC, knowing they invest cheap and early.) Is it once a company reaches 10M? 1M? Where there is an exit? It would be interesting to know how many companies YC says the investment was a success…
Valuations are currently so high and IPOs are so difficult that you shouldn't pay much attention to the valuation stats.
If all of those companies wanted to exit at the price of their most recent raise, they wouldn't be able to. That means that at least some of the valuations are unrealistic.
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#28What does it mean by saying "got their start with us"? I believe many companies have been around for awhile before YC. Many already with revenue, traction and funds raised (although this might be the exception to the rule?).
This is a relatively new phenomenon which is also why the YCF program exists now. Time was, you had a team and a demo.
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#29Number of companies funded by YC that have shut down: ~300 Does this include aqui-hires? Also, would you know how many companies rejected by YC are worth more than $1 billion? Zero or non-zero? :)
Why would it include acqui-hires? Companies rarely broadcast the fact that they're acqui-hiring, so it's not always a black-and-white issue.
Also, saying a company was acqui-hired makes a VC look less successful, so they have an incentive not to be honest about it.
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#30how good or bad are those numbers? only 8/970 companies are worth > 1b and 40 are worth over 100M. I assume YC is doing great for themselves, so I'm wondering, what is the rule of thumb to say an investment was successful? (for YC, knowing they invest cheap and early.) Is it once a company reaches 10M? 1M? Where there is an exit? It would be interesting to know how many companies YC says the investment was a success…
>8/970 companies are worth > 1b and 40 are worth over 100M.
Sorry to be negative, but worth according to whom?
If none of these companies are public, the valuation comes from a very narrow group of private investors. In what seems to be a bubble (and an echo chamber) in S.V., these valuations may be vastly overstated.
That said, kudos to YC for being transparent.