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Neat list, but just keep in mind that many of these (20-40%?) are inaccurate. Many startups listed as active have actually failed, but they kept their site up.
by nudist 17y ago
Neat list, but just keep in mind that many of these (20-40%?) are inaccurate. Many startups listed as active have actually failed, but they kept their site up.
Also, a vast majority of the acquisitions shown here were for talent. They generally involve very little actual money and in many cases could be considered company failures.
Still, I'm happy for the successes. But in startupland there are many magic tricks to make things look better than they are.
- veemjeem 17y agoI'm sure for every round of YC, there are a few companies that don't even make it to launch. The ones that don't launch are not even listed.
- ig1 17y agoI've got most of the companies that failed to launch, plus we know how many companies YC has funded in total so we can deduce how many never launched but aren't listed either.
- ig1 17y agoI had a bit of a dilema on that point. I'm reasonably connected with the london startup scene, which naturally has connections to the YC scene, so I know through a fairly reliable grapevine that some of the acquisitions were "mercy acquisitions". However given this information is essentially "private" I don't feel comfortable publically disclosing it, so I've stuck to public published data about acquisitions. I'm going to go into the acquistions a bit more in another post, I'll see if I can find some way around the dilema.