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Re:Y Combinator Companies by jedc on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @07:05PM (#12448782)
Techstars has shown stats for all companies for years, and has a 10% failure rate. - http://www.techstars.com/companies/

(78% active, 12% acquired, on a base of 800 companies)

Techstars and YC appear to have pretty dramatically different philosophies on selection, which influence this.

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Re:Y Combinator Companies by josh_carterPDX on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @11:02PM (#12449977)
Agree. I would say the selection criteria for every program varies and each have their own strengths, but having the data around how many companies have failed should influence companies thinking about which program they should pursue.
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