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Re:Ask HN: Should I trademark prior to Y Combinator? by tshaddox on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:52PM (#14169348)
From that essay:

> 100% of the top 20 YC companies by valuation have the .com of their name. 94% of the top 50 do. But only 66% of companies in the current batch have the .com of their name. Which suggests there are lessons ahead for most of the rest, one way or another.

To me it suggests that having high valuations may be the cause of having the .com domain. A more useful analysis would be when companies that are now successful got their domains.

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Re:Ask HN: Should I trademark prior to Y Combinator? by dsacco on Friday April 21, 2017 @09:58PM (#14170742)
Yes, that stuck out to me as well. That was a poor way of conveying the point. The 34% of YC that do not have a .com will probably just buy it once they have the cash, regardless of whether or not they change the name.
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Re:Ask HN: Should I trademark prior to Y Combinator? by bbcbasic on Saturday April 22, 2017 @04:34AM (#14171659)
The lesson is that once you have proven a concept and have raised more funds you can afford to pay the current holder of the domain that you desire?
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