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Help keep the Y Combinator Wikipedia page updated
- zokier 17y ago"The lists in this article may contain items that are not notable, encyclopedic, or helpful. Please help out by removing such elements and incorporating appropriate items into the main body of the article" I have to agree, listing all funded organizations is not useful. Just list those which are notable, and mention the total count somewhere
- erikstarck 17y agoIs there a good place somewhere to find a list of all the YC alumni? The YC homepage sure ain't it.
- Major_Grooves 17y agoIs this not all of them? http://ycombinator.com/faq.html http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
- jedc 17y agoUnfortunately, no. (If you view source, you get a few more, but that's still not the full list.)
- leelin 17y agoWow, good find jedc. Of all the times I've checked faq.html, I never thought to view the source! A commented-out company seems to mean that the startup officially launched at one point but is now acquired or gone (sometimes reincarnated).
- jedc 17y agoFull disclosure: I didn't think of it. I was pestering pg and jessica for details of YC companies, and they pointed me to it. :)
- Major_Grooves 17y agoInteresting - there's a lot of info in the page source. In particular the "Why didn't you accept our application" question.
- haasted 17y agoI completely agree with your sentiment. Listing all Y Combinator participants may approach what Wikipedians label "fancruft" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fancruft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fancruft) "Fancruft is a term sometimes used in Wikipedia to imply that a selection of content is of importance only to a small population of enthusiastic fans of the subject in question. The term is a neologism derived from the older hacker term cruft, describing obsolete code that accumulates in a program."
- tree5 17y agoWell, I think those actually researching YC on Wikipedia would find a comprehensive list relevant. The alumni lists on Wikipedia, for example, aren't very interesting to a large population, but it does serve those researching those universities.
- paraschopra 17y agoI respectfully disagree. Having all YC funded startups at one place is incredibly useful. I especially dig for stories of funded startups which eventually shutdown so as to learn what went wrong for them inspite of having funding. Maybe one can categorize on basis of _notability_ but the list should have all YC startups.
- cperciva 17y agoHaving all YC funded startups at one place is incredibly useful There are lots of things which are useful but not notable and do not belong in an encyclopaedia.
- davidw 17y agoEspecially one as tight on space as Wikipedia. Kidding aside, I think having a 'scorecard' somewhere is pretty interesting, and quite relevant to YC. Maybe Wikipedia isn't the right place though?
- ErrantX 17y agoyour welcome to use http://www.startupwiki.co.uk http://www.startupwiki.co.uk :) Ycombinator has some listed: http://www.startupwiki.co.uk/investor/ycombinator http://www.startupwiki.co.uk/investor/ycombinator But not all of them yet (I haven't had time to add the rest recently)
- snprbob86 17y agosigh As a die-hard inclusionist, I'll never understand deletionism... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in_Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in...
- Confusion 17y agoThere is too much information in the world to include it all in Wikipedia. That leads to information dilution, which has the consequence that you cannot find what you are looking for anymore. Die hard inclusionism is as stupid as die hard deletionism. If you cannot understand the opposing viewpoint, you do not understand your own position.
- jacquesm 17y agoIt's extremely useful. The page is about YC, notability comes in to account when you give the startups a page of their own, that should be limited to notable ones.
- gojomo 17y agoAnother reason to loosen 'notability' -- it makes survivorship bias an official policy.
- jedc 17y agoI keep a list of every YC startup I've found here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1Vnl5NmZjaTBNQWlJYVozMEE&hl=en https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l... I compiled the info as part of my master's thesis this summer. Likely not 100% correct, but very close.
- jedc 17y agoI will also happily take edits, suggestions, etc. While I scan enough news to pick up quite a bit of YC-company related news, I'm sure I don't get it all. My e-mail is in my profile.
- ig1 17y agoI've actually been compiling my own list which has details of things like further investment amounts, etc. Once I'm done I'll run a comparision against yours and let you know any differences.
- ErrantX 17y agoAre you tracking who invested the further amounts? Would you care to share it when your done? I am putting together a wiki/public database of that kind of info (see elsewhere) and finding reliable data is something I haven't had a free week to do yet :D
- tomerico 17y agoCan you please link to your thesis as well?
- jedc 17y agoSure. - http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2009/09/21/copying-y-combinator-why-and-how/ http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2009/09/21/copying-y-combina...
- FreeRadical 17y agoIt would be interesting to get an estimate of the aggregate exit values of YC start-ups so far (i.e wealth created)
- leelin 17y agoTC write-ups of the last seven batches in order (most recent first): http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/19/silicon-valley-elite-flock-to-y-combinator-demo-day/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/19/silicon-valley-elite-fl... http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/18/y-combinator-demo-day-spring-2009/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/18/y-combinator-demo-day-s... http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/14/y-combinators-demo-day-summer-2008/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/14/y-combinators-demo-day-... http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/14/y-combinator-demo-day-roundup-for-spring-2008/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/14/y-combinator-demo-day-r... http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/16/y-combinator-demo-day-the-summer-startups/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/16/y-combinator-demo-day-t... http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/09/demo-day-y-combinators-spring-chicks/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/09/demo-day-y-combinators-... http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/09/the-y-combinator-companies/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/09/the-y-combinator-compan... Keep in mind every batch had a bunch in stealth mode by Demo Day, so you'd have to do a much more in-depth TC scan to nab them all.