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Comment · 12 years ago
Important numbers.

" To date, Yo has had over 2 million installs of the app and currently has over 2,000 developers who have started working with the API. "

Comment · 12 years ago
Congrats! PH is a very good growth hacking case study for entrepreneurs.
Comment · 12 years ago
Quote from the about page (http://www.ycombinator.com/about/) ...

"At Y Combinator, our goal is to get you through the first phase. This usually means: get you to the point where you’ve built something impressive enough to raise money on a larger scale. Then we can introduce you to later stage investors—or occasionally even acquirers."

Comment · 12 years ago
YC's goal is to help startups take first baby steps and raise money on a larger scale.

So most important stat is what % of companies do that. Based on your data it seems (76 + XYZ) out of 716 where XYZ is companies out of 121 exits who raised more money prior to exit.

It'd be interesting to know based on cohort (batch) analysis if YC is getting better in achieving its goal or not.

It'd also be interesting to know where YC stands on this compared to other comparable accelerators/incubators.

Comment · 12 years ago
How much time Quora founders are going to spend at YC headquarter during the program ?
Comment · 12 years ago
Dividend amount is usually based on extra cash generated by a company. However, lower margin does not directly translate to less cash generated by the company.
Comment · 12 years ago
This might impact startup fundraising trajectory. Investors may prefer to wait out for 3 weeks if VC partner's investment is a strong enough signal for them.
Comment · 12 years ago
With billion dollar valuations these are not startups rather corporate giants.
Comment · 13 years ago
No, it does not mean only build for iOS onwards.

It means give primary focus to iOS7 in terms of performance, UI, design idioms, usage of underlying technologies etc….

It means don't build apps targeting prior iOS and just reply upon backward compatibility of iOS7. Use iOS7 as your main target OS.

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