Success of Y Combinator startups?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=235072

by globalrev • 18 years ago

10 14 18 years ago

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Is there a review of all the ycombinator startups somewhere?

I think I have seen such data before, at least about how many of them were still businesses out of the total number of funded companies.

(Btw is it Firefox or Hacker news that is correcting spelling?)

apgwoz• 18 years ago

It's not Hacker News correcting spelling, and Firefox obviously did a poor job.

What do you mean by "review"? TechCrunch "reviews" many of the YCombinator funded startups when they first launch, so you could search there. I remember seeing a large list of the companies and their "status" (e.g. acquired, funded, etc). However, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator is the only list I can find at the moment which isn't very comprehensive.

globalrev3• 18 years ago

Where did I misspell?

Anyway I ment measuring the success. How many are actually making money(I mena not just having revenue but revenue > expenses).

Tichy• 18 years ago

"Success"

sant0sk1• 18 years ago

"meant"

falsestprophet2• 18 years ago

English probably isn't his first language (the errors he makes suggest he is a native speaker of a Western? Slavic language).

You have to give non-native speakers a break. I know I sound significantly dumber than I am in French and Spanish.

globalrev3• 18 years ago

Hmm I always thought I speak and write english really well. I have also been told so by a number of americans but then it perhaps has been in comparisment perhaps with other europeans :)

I am swedish btw.

wheels• 18 years ago

There's a list here: http://ycombinator.com/faq.html

pg3• 18 years ago

Of 80 we funded prior to the current cycle, 55 are still operating, 6 were acquired, and 1 merged with another YC-funded startup, meaning 18 have died. I don't know details of all the live ones' revenues.

There are 22 in the summer cycle, so the total funded is 102, representing roughly 250 founders.

dmoney• 18 years ago

So if they continue being acquired and dying at the same rate a YC startup has a 24-28% chance of acquisition (depending whether you count the merged startup as an acquisition or a death).

pg3• 18 years ago

It should be higher, because deaths tend to happen faster than acquisitions.

zaveri• 18 years ago

Check the following out: http://rankedindex.com/yc

http://sam.bluwiki.com/blog/2007/04/y-combinators-portfolio....

pg3• 18 years ago

Rankedindex would be pretty handy if it sorted numeric columns by their numeric rather than ascii value. 900 < 8000

Success of Y Combinator startups?

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