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All? of YC investments--left sidebar

17 points by dustingetz 17y ago

icey 17y ago
I wonder why Xobni was listed twice.
- michael_dorfman 17y ago
  Two separate investments?
  - ErrantX 17y ago
    It's uncited but according to the Crunchbase page for Xobni [1] they (YC) invested a further 80K in Angel funding in Dec 2006. 1. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/xobni http://www.crunchbase.com/company/xobni
wensing 17y ago
Now if we just had a tiny status indicator next to each ...
- ErrantX 17y ago
  Go stick them on here; http://startupwiki.co.uk/ http://startupwiki.co.uk/ and I will add a freature to tag the startup's as dead or alive :D and have it show up here http://startupwiki.co.uk/investor/ycombinator http://startupwiki.co.uk/investor/ycombinator
webwright 17y ago
This is one of those times it makes me sad that YC is so unconventional/lean (though I understand the decision and I'm not sure I'd do anything different in their shoes). If they hired a young/good writer whose job it was to maintain and curate a list and profile page for each company as well as post "where are they now?" posts for the 6 month survivors who want to be profiled, it would be a nice SEO/awareness boon for the young companies. It would also be a good/easy reservoir of reporter-targets (anything that helps reporters be lazy is good, IMO). Of course, that content/awareness/traffic would also help spread the word about YC. I'm still stunned at how many geeks I talk to who have never heard of it.
- wensing 17y ago
  I'm still stunned at how many geeks I talk to who have never heard of it. This hit me when Drew (Houston, Dropbox) had to tell geeks about it here as if it were still 2005: http://vimeo.com/9100565 http://vimeo.com/9100565
- theycallmemorty 17y ago
  If they hired a young/good writer whose job it was to maintain and curate a list and profile page for each company as well as post "where are they now?" posts for the 6 month survivors who want to be profiled Doesn't this very website serve that purpose?
- iamwil 17y ago
  On that last point, YC has no shortage of applicants. I'm not sure that I'd worry about spreading the word if I were them either.
  - deleted 17y ago
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  - webwright 17y ago
    Really? Then I don't think you'd be running it very effectively. That's like Apple saying, "we're selling tons of iPhones. Let's stop marketing them." Or a better analogy is Harvard saying, "we have a lot of applicants this season-- let's not market or recruit". If Harvard said that, they'd slowly watch the quality and quantity of their applicant pool drift towards the other ivy-league schools that WERE marketing. YC has a HUGE marketing advantage in PG (and his amazing and linkworthy essays), Jessica (and her amazing book) and the success of the portfolio. But it's not an unassailable position. edit: Duh-- news.yc is another incredible marketing asset that YC has!
    - iamwil 17y ago
      I'm not saying don't market at all. Just perhaps there's not a need to market in the way that you mentioned in the previous post about portfolio pages, given pg & co can only look after so many startups per batch. But apparently not, since pg replied saying he was working on a portfolio page and jl is working on blog posts. I concede.
theycallmemorty 17y ago
There is also this google doc: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1Vnl5NmZjaTBNQWlJYVozMEE&hl=en http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1...
- ohashi 17y ago
  Very interesting to see that list, thanks :)
- aaronsw 17y ago
  I sent him the missing Y Combinator startups from my round (Firecrawl, Memamp, and Simmery) -- anyone else have the others?
  - ig1 17y ago
    I have most at: http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2009/12/analyzing-y-combinator.html http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2009/12/analyzing-y-combinator... Although there are a few '09 ones which have gone public since my post which I haven't got around to adding yet.
  - pg 17y ago
    Firecrawl morphed into Textpayme, so if that was included there would be a double count.
justin 17y ago
No mention of Kiko :(
- justin 17y ago
  Arguably Y Combinator's greatest investment to date
roundsquare 17y ago
I didn't know YC funded Reddit. Funny, given how much flack Reddit gets around here.

17 points by dustingetz 17y ago

icey 17y ago

I wonder why Xobni was listed twice.

michael_dorfman 17y ago
Two separate investments?
- ErrantX 17y ago
  It's uncited but according to the Crunchbase page for Xobni [1] they (YC) invested a further 80K in Angel funding in Dec 2006. 1. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/xobni http://www.crunchbase.com/company/xobni

wensing 17y ago

Now if we just had a tiny status indicator next to each ...

ErrantX 17y ago
Go stick them on here; http://startupwiki.co.uk/ http://startupwiki.co.uk/ and I will add a freature to tag the startup's as dead or alive :D and have it show up here http://startupwiki.co.uk/investor/ycombinator http://startupwiki.co.uk/investor/ycombinator

webwright 17y ago

This is one of those times it makes me sad that YC is so unconventional/lean (though I understand the decision and I'm not sure I'd do anything different in their shoes). If they hired a young/good writer whose job it was to maintain and curate a list and profile page for each company as well as post "where are they now?" posts for the 6 month survivors who want to be profiled, it would be a nice SEO/awareness boon for the young companies. It would also be a good/easy reservoir of reporter-targets (anything that helps reporters be lazy is good, IMO). Of course, that content/awareness/traffic would also help spread the word about YC. I'm still stunned at how many geeks I talk to who have never heard of it.

wensing 17y ago
I'm still stunned at how many geeks I talk to who have never heard of it. This hit me when Drew (Houston, Dropbox) had to tell geeks about it here as if it were still 2005: http://vimeo.com/9100565 http://vimeo.com/9100565
theycallmemorty 17y ago
If they hired a young/good writer whose job it was to maintain and curate a list and profile page for each company as well as post "where are they now?" posts for the 6 month survivors who want to be profiled Doesn't this very website serve that purpose?
iamwil 17y ago
On that last point, YC has no shortage of applicants. I'm not sure that I'd worry about spreading the word if I were them either.
- deleted 17y ago
  [deleted]
- webwright 17y ago
  Really? Then I don't think you'd be running it very effectively. That's like Apple saying, "we're selling tons of iPhones. Let's stop marketing them." Or a better analogy is Harvard saying, "we have a lot of applicants this season-- let's not market or recruit". If Harvard said that, they'd slowly watch the quality and quantity of their applicant pool drift towards the other ivy-league schools that WERE marketing. YC has a HUGE marketing advantage in PG (and his amazing and linkworthy essays), Jessica (and her amazing book) and the success of the portfolio. But it's not an unassailable position. edit: Duh-- news.yc is another incredible marketing asset that YC has!
  - iamwil 17y ago
    I'm not saying don't market at all. Just perhaps there's not a need to market in the way that you mentioned in the previous post about portfolio pages, given pg & co can only look after so many startups per batch. But apparently not, since pg replied saying he was working on a portfolio page and jl is working on blog posts. I concede.

theycallmemorty 17y ago

There is also this google doc: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1Vnl5NmZjaTBNQWlJYVozMEE&hl=en http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1...

ohashi 17y ago
Very interesting to see that list, thanks :)
aaronsw 17y ago
I sent him the missing Y Combinator startups from my round (Firecrawl, Memamp, and Simmery) -- anyone else have the others?
- ig1 17y ago
  I have most at: http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2009/12/analyzing-y-combinator.html http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2009/12/analyzing-y-combinator... Although there are a few '09 ones which have gone public since my post which I haven't got around to adding yet.
- pg 17y ago
  Firecrawl morphed into Textpayme, so if that was included there would be a double count.

justin 17y ago

No mention of Kiko :(

justin 17y ago
Arguably Y Combinator's greatest investment to date

roundsquare 17y ago

I didn't know YC funded Reddit. Funny, given how much flack Reddit gets around here.