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Is Y Combinator worth it?
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#23I think it is worth it but less every year. I got an email to apply (we got rejected in the past) and I just ignored it.
We raised our seed round, in the middle of Texas... there is a lot of capital out there and a lot of amazing investors. The world is much larger than SV.
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#24I hope if someone can provide some statistics on how many YC companies shutdown after X years. That would be very interesting.
This has info (year, exit / dead, one line description) of 1281 YC companies [0] Out of the 49 companies in the S11 batch, 10 exited, 17 are "dead", and 22 have no status. Most of the companies from the W16 batch have no status listed. [0]: https://yclist.com/
Is this list still being updated?
PagerDuty isn't listed as exited, despite IPO-ing last year.
Edit: And Flexport isn't listed at all (Should be W14, IIRC)
Re: Is Y Combinator worth it?
#25Y Combinator has one of the strongest brands of any investor, which matters a ton for recruiting. It's very hard for engineers considering working at an early stage company to determine whether it's legit or not, and Y Combinator is probably a better known name than any VC. Personally when I was looking for jobs I'd immediately disqualify any company that wasn't backed by a relatively small list of investors and YC w…
Isn’t this factor dominated by the increased risk of failure that venture funded early-stage companies have? Does being funded by YC move the needle toward “success” by a noticeable amount? Or is there something else that you value that YC brings?
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#26This YC thing is only for US companies right?
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#27What's the cost? I think it's something like 7% of your company upfront, right?
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#29What's the cost? I think it's something like 7% of your company upfront, right?
Yes, that's at the bottom of the article:
> YC has a "standard deal" where they take a 7% stake in your company. YC also gets pro-rata rights in future funding rounds.
Re: Is Y Combinator worth it?
#30Y Combinator has one of the strongest brands of any investor, which matters a ton for recruiting. It's very hard for engineers considering working at an early stage company to determine whether it's legit or not, and Y Combinator is probably a better known name than any VC. Personally when I was looking for jobs I'd immediately disqualify any company that wasn't backed by a relatively small list of investors and YC w…
Would you disqualify companies that had bootstrapped successfully, were profitable, and did not take any outside money? Not a judging question - I understand the value of a good investor's due diligence and backing in improving the odds of sane leadership. But it's interesting to think how that can impact a successful, self-funded copmany's access to talent.
I think there are so few tech companies that are entirely bootstrapped and profitable that you could probably take the time to specially consider one if they made an offer.