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Top 15 U.S. Startup Accelerators and Incubators Ranked
- pg 15y agoThis site is banned on HN (I'm not sure whether for posting fluff articles or for spamming), but I unkilled this post lest it seem like we were trying to suppress it. They certainly don't seem to understand how YC works though. They say that YC has a "hands-off approach," when in fact the biggest distinction between us and the others is that at YC the startups are advised by people whose full time job is to advise them, while at most or all of the others they're advised by a pool of people who've agreed to advise a few startups on the side.
- replicatorblog 15y agoThis is another major ding for the Kauffman Foundation, though they were only indirectly involved. For instance, shouldn't exit size/frequency be measured? If so Heroku alone would crush the rest of the competition. Shouldn't there be some kind of rating, rather than just a ranking? Sequential ordering doesn't begin to illustrate the distance between YC/TC and the rest. You were very kind to unkill this.
- ph0rque 15y agoShould the last sentence be, "You were very kind to unkill this."?
- replicatorblog 15y agoYes, my bad, edited
- ffumarola 15y agoI imagine there is a large gap between the top 5 and the bottom 5. But, I guess I would need to see the data behind the calculations.
- pmjordan 15y agoWhile their analysis may or may not be valuable, it's completely useless to the public as long as they don't publish their data. I think the ranking is probably secondary to collating all the data and other information they've dug up in one place.
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