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Very impressive. I'd love to know how many out of the 716 companies funded so far are still in business per se as independent entities? And among those that ar

by ar7hur 12y ago

Very impressive. I'd love to know how many out of the 716 companies funded so far are still in business per se as independent entities? And among those that are not anymore, what was the exit (successful exit vs. soft landing / acquihire vs. death). I suspect it's really hard to track though, and somewhat subjective.

dm2 12y ago
It wouldn't be too difficult to pay someone a minimal amount to maintain a very detailed spreadsheet of every company that passes through YCombinator and record every stat they can find (and attempt to track how that changes over time). Some columns could be deleted if they are determined to not provide value obviously. This might allow some interesting patterns to help filter future companies and let them know where the money is best allocated. Optimizing return on investment seems like it would be the most important part of YCombinator, then again I'm not a venture capitalist (but would love to be one some day). I'm sure this is done somewhat at every incubator / startup investment group but it might be determined to be too valuable to release publicly, but at least a list of companies would be appreciated (all companies, not just the wildly successful ones). Some possible stats off of the top of my head (per company): - industry, location, target market - founder's specialties (marketing, financial, developers). in-house developer or outside contractors. age of founders, university attended - expected revenue after 1 year, 2 years, 5 years. actual revenue after those times - number of users, number of paying customers, average revenue per customer. time from conception to first sale Some of this might be information that they don't want to share, but if willing it would be wonderful to see. Just every data point possible that might offer some kind of correlation between extreme success / moderate success / failure.
- tlrobinson 12y ago
  Like http://yclist.com/ http://yclist.com/ ? Looks fairly up to date, but I'm not sure how accurate it is. I recall seeing a spreadsheet that included other similar programs but I can't find it right now.
  - 2arrs2ells 12y ago
    I think you're thinking of http://www.seed-db.com/ http://www.seed-db.com/
  - dm2 12y ago
    Yep, that's certainly a start. It doesn't really show the difference in success between companies like Reddit, Stripe, Loopt, and TextPayMe.
  - lisper 12y ago
    YCList is definitely not up to date. There are at least three companies that I know are dead (because I invested in them) that are not listed as dead. And there are almost certainly a lot more because I only looked at my portfolio.
- iamwil 12y ago
  http://ycpages.info/ http://ycpages.info/ http://ycuniverse.com/ http://ycuniverse.com/
  - dm2 12y ago
    Ohhh, very nice, it looks like that data does exist publicly. I'm imagining a more consolidated view with filtering / sorting, I might work on building that in the next week or two if I have some free time and see if it's useful to anyone.
- jedc 12y ago
  http://www.seed-db.com http://www.seed-db.com collects stats for YC and every other accelerator, too... the companies they've funded, who's invested for how much and when, etc.

by ar7hur 12y ago

dm2 12y ago

It wouldn't be too difficult to pay someone a minimal amount to maintain a very detailed spreadsheet of every company that passes through YCombinator and record every stat they can find (and attempt to track how that changes over time). Some columns could be deleted if they are determined to not provide value obviously. This might allow some interesting patterns to help filter future companies and let them know where the money is best allocated. Optimizing return on investment seems like it would be the most important part of YCombinator, then again I'm not a venture capitalist (but would love to be one some day). I'm sure this is done somewhat at every incubator / startup investment group but it might be determined to be too valuable to release publicly, but at least a list of companies would be appreciated (all companies, not just the wildly successful ones). Some possible stats off of the top of my head (per company): - industry, location, target market - founder's specialties (marketing, financial, developers). in-house developer or outside contractors. age of founders, university attended - expected revenue after 1 year, 2 years, 5 years. actual revenue after those times - number of users, number of paying customers, average revenue per customer. time from conception to first sale Some of this might be information that they don't want to share, but if willing it would be wonderful to see. Just every data point possible that might offer some kind of correlation between extreme success / moderate success / failure.

tlrobinson 12y ago
Like http://yclist.com/ http://yclist.com/ ? Looks fairly up to date, but I'm not sure how accurate it is. I recall seeing a spreadsheet that included other similar programs but I can't find it right now.
- 2arrs2ells 12y ago
  I think you're thinking of http://www.seed-db.com/ http://www.seed-db.com/
- dm2 12y ago
  Yep, that's certainly a start. It doesn't really show the difference in success between companies like Reddit, Stripe, Loopt, and TextPayMe.
- lisper 12y ago
  YCList is definitely not up to date. There are at least three companies that I know are dead (because I invested in them) that are not listed as dead. And there are almost certainly a lot more because I only looked at my portfolio.
iamwil 12y ago
http://ycpages.info/ http://ycpages.info/ http://ycuniverse.com/ http://ycuniverse.com/
- dm2 12y ago
  Ohhh, very nice, it looks like that data does exist publicly. I'm imagining a more consolidated view with filtering / sorting, I might work on building that in the next week or two if I have some free time and see if it's useful to anyone.
jedc 12y ago
http://www.seed-db.com http://www.seed-db.com collects stats for YC and every other accelerator, too... the companies they've funded, who's invested for how much and when, etc.