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Re:YC Stats by bkjelden on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @03:12PM (#10125335)
The failure rate is probably skewed low by YCs growth rate. For example, 1/9 of the companies were in their most recent batch, and it's unlikely that any of them have gone out of business yet.

Still impressive though. Any success rate over say 10-20% seems really impressive for an incubator.

Re:YC Stats by bfe on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @03:49PM (#10125562)
The breakout-success rate thus far is also skewed low by YC's growth curve. Things have still just begun.
Re:YC Stats by ghiculescu on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @06:30PM (#10126415)
Yeah. A failure rate by cohort (a "churn rate" of sorts) would be handy.