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The TechStars Index(daniellemorrill.com)
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by dmor 14y ago
I strongly second this, and thinking making sure they have an outlet for concerns/ideas about career growth and other interpersonal, HR, culture or other "soft" things from time to time is important too. It's amazing how easy it is to go a
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Google Shutting Down Google Affiliate Network(googleaffiliatenetwork-blog.blogspot.co.uk)
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B2B Startups Cloudant and Clustrix Enter Y Combinator Index Top 10(daniellemorrill.com)
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Criminal Sketch Artist Draws Women as They See Themselves and as Others See Them(adweek.com)
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The Most Popular VC & Angel Blogs(daniellemorrill.com)
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Invest in Lines, not Dots (2010)(bothsidesofthetable.com)
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Inside that traffic data concerning Y Combinator companies(thenextweb.com)
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by dmor 14y ago
Not necessarily, in fact that was was of the fallacies of the dot com bubble. Revenue is traction if it is gained at a reasonable cost. There are definitely unit economics that look like growth but come at an unsustainable cost.
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by dmor 14y ago
Splitting out consumer vs. B2B companies is definitely on my list in the near future
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by dmor 14y ago
Thank you, especially for hearing my earnestness through all the noise - I'm glad it comes through. Without revealing too much, I can tell you that I have a much varied and interesting data set to use to rank companies for the next full YC
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by dmor 14y ago
Yeah, they're sort of weird edge case but I can see a case for wanting to benchmark against them, let me think about it a bit.
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by dmor 14y ago
9gag's global traffic rank dropped from #328 to #329 in the sample period. The list does not include companies whose traffic went down, even if they are in the top 250,000 of all sites globally. I included an explanation of this in the post
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by dmor 14y ago
It sounds like the value may be in who is on the list and growing. Maybe the order is not as important as the fact that these are all companies worth watching?
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by dmor 14y ago
Well this is the kind of graph I dream about :) http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/newsblur.com#
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by dmor 14y ago
I hear you, and for the startup index we are now collecting 9 data points and v1 of the new one is a labor of love that I will hopefully have out in the next week or so. Iterating like a mofo :)
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by dmor 14y ago
I generally don't include companies that have exited. You can view the YC index here and download the data. The April version will be out soon. http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/the-y-combinator-inde...
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by dmor 14y ago
I considered it but was on the fence so I wasn't going to use log this first time, but it sounds like that really might be the best approach. Give me a minute and I'll make a spreadsheet you guys can check out to see if it makes more sense.
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by dmor 14y ago
I absolutely agree with you regarding seasonality, I simply don't have a snapshot from a year ago. But a year from now I will be able to do this now that I am collecting the data each month.
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Traction Tracker: Y Combinator Companies With Significant Traffic Growth(daniellemorrill.com)
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by dmor 14y ago
What sources would you suggest they use to do their research? This data was from Crunchbase which is the first place most entrepreneurs tell me they look, so I wonder if these New York firms are less motivated to update it. Is there some ot
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Zombie VC Post – The Bug Report(daniellemorrill.com)
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by dmor 14y ago
It's certainly not retribution, I posted that story and I think it's interesting - and then it turned into a TC story! Refer.ly recently pivoted - in fact every stat about our business is on the front page of our site. We aren't raising Ser
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by dmor 14y ago
USV missed the cutoff by 2 months, they were in the Sift Science Series A in November 2012 As you suggest, another interesting post might be listing the truly inactive firms who have not made any investment at all in 6+ months
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by dmor 14y ago
To be completely clear, I did not say in my post that founders should not work with these investors. I said it might be a waste of time to pitch them on a Series A, since it doesn't appear from publicly available data that they are doing th
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by dmor 14y ago
I would be happy to make you another list that has 12 month cutoff, would that help? We were discussing last night whether health/biotech funds have a different cycle than web tech, would love to know your thoughts on that.
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by dmor 14y ago
Thanks Renee, my email is in my profile and in the post and I'd love to get more updated in on OATV's recent Series A activity
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by dmor 14y ago
I think that is another valuable thing to measure in terms of overall success and direction the fund is going, and I'd certainly like to. I was hoping this would help founders who are trying to raise Series A right now figure out where to f
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by dmor 14y ago
It's not a shield, it's a sign. I'm working with limited public data trying to create something new and I'm working on improving it but it takes time - making this post alone was a labor of love and I realize this kind of analysis still has
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by dmor 14y ago
I wouldn't be so sure. In addition to Ron's stats shown on the list, SV Angel also has not participated in a Series A since January 2013, but was on a regular 1-2 Series A deal a month pattern before that (in addition to tons of angel). ht

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