Warned of a Crash, Startups in Silicon Valley Narrow Their Focus

Re:Warned of a Crash, Startups in Silicon Valley Narrow Thei... by daniel_levine on Monday August 29, 2016 @06:24PM (#12385952)

Wufoo did YC then didn't raise a Series A, before eventually selling to SurveyMonkey. Olark raised from YC, then a Seed and that's it. Statuspage did YC and then Seed and then sold to Atlassian. These are just some examples off the top of my head, I'm sure I could come up with a ton more.

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Re:Warned of a Crash, Startups in Silicon Valley Narrow Thei... by dasmoth on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @05:51AM (#12388594)

Thanks for these examples. Going for a relatively early sale/acquisition/acquihire returns capital to the seed investors, so not really quite the scenario that I was thinking of, but the Olark example is very interesting.

I wonder whether they've paid dividends to YC?

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Re:Warned of a Crash, Startups in Silicon Valley Narrow Thei... by daniel_levine on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @06:57PM (#12394637)

In the instances of those acquisitions, it was purely the choice of the founders as the investors have no control over that decision.

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