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by jedc 14y ago
Check out my site: Seed-DB ( http://www.seed-db.com ). In addition to Y Combinator, I have data on 150+ accelerators around the world. (YCList gets data from Seed-DB, for example)
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by jedc 14y ago
Frankly, YC startups get the lion share of press attention. Between that and Hacker News, it's always easier to get information on YC startup exits than those from other programs. And generally insiders only get in touch with me around my
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There are no valuation estimates; just estimates on sale prices when companies have exited. Luckily the biggest exits are the ones that have press interest and thus have a price attached. My methodology depends on research into previous fu
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Interesting! Danielle, would be interested in figuring out how I could help you automate this through Seed-DB ( http://www.seed-db.com )
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I love Tim O'Reilly's quote on this phenomenon: "The future is already here; it's just not evenly distributed"
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You might also want to check out my site: Seed-DB ( http://www.seed-db.com ) Also, I'm in London, too. Get in touch and we can grab a drink. :)
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Jottit is a site that was co-created by Aaron Swartz. (And runs on Heroku, apparently.) Hopefully his co-creator can help bring it back up?
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And if I remember correctly, Eric Lefkofsky was one of the investors who cashed out ~$1billion (!) of his Groupon shares during one of their last VC rounds. I'm surprised they were able to do that, but so many people were killing themselve
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I love how he formed such strong opinions without ever experiencing it or anything like it. And then says "Puke" about an article from someone that actually DID use it. Not to mention that he clearly didn't read the article that closely if
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I believe the land the buildings will be on is being leased from NASA...
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This happened to me last week. I have near-zero design skills, so I just used a standard Twitter Bootstrap design for my site. Though I'm still embarrassed a bit by it, it works for now while I'm working on other more critical elements. B
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The most accessible guide to Stoicism that I've ever found was recommended by Derek Sivers, and written by William Irvine "A Guide to the Good Life". http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Good-Life-Ancient-Stoic/dp/01953... I really highly recommen
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Cool Easter Egg on Google.com - mouse over "I'm feeling lucky"
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You can drive a Zamboni on today's Google Doodle(google.co.uk)
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Completely agree. Neil's a really smart and experienced software CEO (Red Gate Software in Cambridge, UK) and I thought he had a lot of interesting/useful stuff to say in that book.
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Pretty sure it's comprehensive...
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Completely agree. I saw it on Derek Siver's list of highly rated books, and it's really helped clarify my outlook on life. I would also HIGHLY recommend it not just for entrepreneurs, but everyone.
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Founder of Seed-DB here. I'd love to get numbers on revenue, profits, etc. but it's essentially impossible to do this for private companies. Even average lifespan is difficult because death is often not a single day, but a slow transition
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by jedc 14y ago
I'm not sure what you're looking for here. I import each company's funding data from Crunchbase, whether that's a convertible note or an equity round. My comment above was just regarding the algorithm for calculating median funding. I've b
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Seed-DB founder here. I've recently added a feature where I grant permission for users to enter/edit information on their accelerator and their accelerator startups to Seed-DB. It's a manual process, and I only give this permission to acce
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I have a pretty strict definition of what constitutes a "seed accelerator": http://www.seed-db.com/about/view?page=definition Since Founder Institute charges startups to be a part of the program, it's not included.
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(Seed-DB founder here) Exactly; where the majority of startups in an accelerator don't have funding data in Crunchbase, it defaults to the funding that startups get from the accelerator itself. (This is why the list of accelerators default
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I wish I could vote this comment up 10 times over. I know that I know little to nothing about sysadmin, so when I built a recent app I used AppEngine for this very reason. And when it got onto the HN front page it scaled ridiculously easy
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I'm the guy that created Seed-DB if you have any questions.
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And a fun fact: it even calculates it correctly across a daylight savings time change. I noticed that when the clocks went back; instead of just subtracting the times, my Android phone accounted for the change and added the hour that I was
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$299 for an unlocked smartphone on NO contract, on lead device hardware, with the newest Android OS (and which will receive updates as soon as they're ready), and solid reviews? Yikes!!
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A lot of companies choose to keep their intellectual property as "trade secrets" instead. (Like the Coke recipe, etc.) Just like SpaceX, it can often be better for the company than a patent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_secret
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Teaching thousands of students to program on Udacity with App Engine (part 2)(googleappengine.blogspot.co.uk)
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[how long is 127 hours]? Google says 94 minutes(google.co.uk)
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The Samwer brothers fill a (pretty big) hole in the market. They execute proven business models in countries before the market leader can get there. If US-based companies would put more emphasis on international expansion the Samwers' bus

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