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How YC S12 Companies Make Money
- petenixey 14y agoGreat info, thanks for compiling this. It would be fascinating to see a trendline across batches - do you feel you'd have the data to do that?
- ig1 14y agoBasically it would involve going through the previous batches and manually labelling them. I might pick a couple of other classes to do it for, but it's probably too much work to do it for all of them.
- ed209 14y agoCould you crowdsource it? Share a Google Spreadsheet here with a list of all the batches, I'd look up a couple :)
- smoyer 14y agoIt would be interesting to correlate your data with whether the company receives funding and,if so, in what amount.
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- Swizec 14y agoFrom a casual look at the data it seems like B2B and B2c are almost inversed. None is the most popular with B2C and Subscription with B2B. What makes subscriptions attractive to businesses, but apparently not to consumers?
- jpwagner 14y agoNone is the most popular with B2C and Subscription with B2B. That's exactly what you would expect. Maybe I misinterpreted your comment, what do you mean by "inversed".
- Swizec 14y agoIf you plotted the histograms for both types of businesses, it looks like you'd get roughly a parabolic shape. B2B falling from Subscription towards None, and B2C rising from Subscription towards None. It also seems like Pay-as-you-go and Advertising are the least popular options overall.
- Axsuul 14y agoIt could be that businesses are used to paying for services since it typically increases business. Therefore it's a justified expense.
- brador 14y agoAnyone have a similar analysis for previous year intakes? Would be interesting to see which business models are most likely to survive.
- magnusgraviti 14y agoIt would be interesting to compare YC startups considering also their income so we can see not only chosen business models but also how much they earn. But I wonder if we can get such information.
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- dkrich 14y agoSo one out of four have no business model? Interesting.
- AndrewKemendo 14y agoI think that's the real headline here.
- jackpirate 14y agoMore likely they're just not easily categorizable.
- ig1 14y agoNo, every company which had a defined business model fell into one of the five categories.
- amirmc 14y ago"... which suggests YC is still open to funding consumer startups that have the potential to be massmarket without a clear revenue stream" Nice way of looking at the data but it's difficult to draw conclusions like the above. There are always posts that describe how people changed course partway through or even changed at the last minute. YC can't know how things are likely to go at the time they make the offers.
- tlogan 14y agoIt is interesting that only 2 companies in B2C have subscription. In other words, it seems like selling something to consumers is really really hard.
- jvvlimme 14y agoI find it really strange that you build a service without an idea of how to monetize it. Surely "being bought" isn't a valid business model.