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Neat, but such a list needs information about who created it, when it was done and what sources were used. Right now it's pretty much untrustworthy and therefo

by scrrr 16y ago

Neat, but such a list needs information about who created it, when it was done and what sources were used. Right now it's pretty much untrustworthy and therefor useless.

jedc 16y ago
Huh. I thought it might end up being a link to my list here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1Vnl5NmZjaTBNQWlJYVozMEE&hl=en#gid=0 https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l... I agree; it would be very useful to understand where that came from. Though it looks like someone may have taken my original data above and gone through to look up articles/information to flesh everything out? (Because they kept my placeholders, where I knew how many YC companies were in a class though some hadn't launched.)
- wololo 16y ago
  made by me, originally for personal use, mostly in october 2010. i started with jedc's spreadsheet, but the blog.awesomezombie.com list seemed to be more accurate about placing startups in the right batches (methodology section of http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2009/12/analyzing-y-combinator.html http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2009/12/analyzing-y-combinator... is very relevant). the successful ones are easy, but the others are more difficult/murky/interesting, and typically map to pg essays in comical fashion. all the standard sources: their sites themselves, their blogs/twitter accounts, crunchbase (about same vandalism rate as wikipedia), linkedin, facebook, archive.org, hacker news, techcrunch, venturebeat interviews, school newspaper interviews, googlefu. i think the more important point is that where this is wrong, to the extent that people care, they are going to let us all know and it will be fixed.
  - ig1 16y ago
    I'm the author of the awesomezombie list, I've got quite a bit of background research that didn't make it onto that post, so if there's any companies you were stuck with give me a ping and I'll see if I have any more info. Although a quick look through your spreadsheet indicates you seem to have done a pretty comprehensive job ! I noticed you've got ModFour as a dev shop, they actually went through YC with a product called ShopKick (see my answer at http://www.quora.com/What-did-the-Y-Combinator-startup-Mod-Four-2006-do http://www.quora.com/What-did-the-Y-Combinator-startup-Mod-F...). I've also got a twitter feed of all the YC companies: http://twitter.com/#!/imranghory/ycombinator http://twitter.com/#!/imranghory/ycombinator (there are also ycombinator-wXX and ycombinator-sXX lists for the individual batches)

by scrrr 16y ago

Neat, but such a list needs information about who created it, when it was done and what sources were used. Right now it's pretty much untrustworthy and therefor useless.

jedc 16y ago

Huh. I thought it might end up being a link to my list here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1Vnl5NmZjaTBNQWlJYVozMEE&hl=en#gid=0 https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l... I agree; it would be very useful to understand where that came from. Though it looks like someone may have taken my original data above and gone through to look up articles/information to flesh everything out? (Because they kept my placeholders, where I knew how many YC companies were in a class though some hadn't launched.)

wololo 16y ago
made by me, originally for personal use, mostly in october 2010. i started with jedc's spreadsheet, but the blog.awesomezombie.com list seemed to be more accurate about placing startups in the right batches (methodology section of http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2009/12/analyzing-y-combinator.html http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2009/12/analyzing-y-combinator... is very relevant). the successful ones are easy, but the others are more difficult/murky/interesting, and typically map to pg essays in comical fashion. all the standard sources: their sites themselves, their blogs/twitter accounts, crunchbase (about same vandalism rate as wikipedia), linkedin, facebook, archive.org, hacker news, techcrunch, venturebeat interviews, school newspaper interviews, googlefu. i think the more important point is that where this is wrong, to the extent that people care, they are going to let us all know and it will be fixed.
- ig1 16y ago
  I'm the author of the awesomezombie list, I've got quite a bit of background research that didn't make it onto that post, so if there's any companies you were stuck with give me a ping and I'll see if I have any more info. Although a quick look through your spreadsheet indicates you seem to have done a pretty comprehensive job ! I noticed you've got ModFour as a dev shop, they actually went through YC with a product called ShopKick (see my answer at http://www.quora.com/What-did-the-Y-Combinator-startup-Mod-Four-2006-do http://www.quora.com/What-did-the-Y-Combinator-startup-Mod-F...). I've also got a twitter feed of all the YC companies: http://twitter.com/#!/imranghory/ycombinator http://twitter.com/#!/imranghory/ycombinator (there are also ycombinator-wXX and ycombinator-sXX lists for the individual batches)