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YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups

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Re: YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups

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Post by idlewords »

smallerfish wrote: post #58
jbverschoor wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s not what a lifestyle business is. Unless your lifestyle is eating ramen

Sure it is. If your business nets 3 million a year, it takes 5 people to run it, and your customer base is steady, that's lifestyle. Sucks for investors, pretty nice for you if you can keep it running.

In other sectors that's just called a "small business" and celebrated as the fullest expression of the American dream. I've always found it funny that tech treats the idea of a going concern with such distaste.

Re: YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups

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Post by bithavoc »

Ozzie_osman wrote: post #50
nathancahill wrote: post #17

Filestack YCS12 is a mistake, it's very active.

Same for Tandem

there’s one in ‘19 and a new one in ‘24, which Tandem are you referring to? I just checked and the one listed in this page is YC’19 it looks zombie-ish, both founders moved on quietly according to LinkedIn

Re: YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups

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Post by aprilthird2021 »

idlewords wrote: post #72
smallerfish wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure it is. If your business nets 3 million a year, it takes 5 people to run it, and your customer base is steady, that's lifestyle. Sucks for investors, pretty nice for you if you can keep it running.

In other sectors that's just called a "small business" and celebrated as the fullest expression of the American dream. I've always found it funny that tech treats the idea of a going concern with such distaste.

Specifically investors, not "all of tech". And to be fair to them, if a company doesn't grow, your investment is wasted in that company, right? No shade to good small businesses, but they may not be worth investing in?

Re: YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups

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Post by thecleaner »

eddiewithzato wrote: post #32
thecleaner wrote: post #2

Wth. Blume benefits sounds like a really useful thing ? Wonder what happened.

Target audience is very niche

Hmm. Charge high, better profit margins. To me that sounds exactly like the sort of thing a startup should do. Maybe my instincts are off.

Re: YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups

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Post by zenyc »

I love seeing the 'YC Graveyard' project. It’s a great reminder of the incredible ideas and effort behind each startup, even if things didn’t pan out. We’ve been working on giving some of these inactive startups a second chance by acquiring them and exploring ways to repurpose or revive their tech.

If anyone’s been involved with an inactive YC project and wants to chat about what’s possible, I’d love to connect.

Re: YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups

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Post by Lionga »

threeseed wrote: post #38
ekianjo wrote: post #21

Is YC better than other incubators, percentage wise?

I would imagine so. a) Almost all of the other incubators are just awful. Either they are predatory, ineptly managed or simply not well capitalised enough to offer a competitive product. b) YC is able to rest on its laurels i.e. they can/do market how well AirBnb, Stripe etc have done. And so their funnel of talent is by far the best. c) That said, YC is the worst I've ever seen it. And Garry Tan is mostly to blame a…

YC has probably become worse then most of the other (really bad) incubators

Started with Sam now with Garry Tan it is really going in the gutter.

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