Re:Data on YC-funded startups and their founders
by ig1 on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @09:04AM
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I'm the author of the awesomezombie list, I've got quite a bit of background research that didn't make it onto that post, so if there's any companies you were stuck with give me a ping and I'll see if I have any more info.
Although a quick look through your spreadsheet indicates you seem to have done a pretty comprehensive job !
I noticed you've got ModFour as a dev shop, they actually went through YC with a product called ShopKick (see my answer at http://www.quora.com/What-did-the-Y-Combinator-startup-Mod-F...).
I've also got a twitter feed of all the YC companies: http://twitter.com/#!/imranghory/ycombinator
(there are also ycombinator-wXX and ycombinator-sXX lists for the individual batches)
the successful ones are easy, but the others are more difficult/murky/interesting, and typically map to pg essays in comical fashion.
all the standard sources: their sites themselves, their blogs/twitter accounts, crunchbase (about same vandalism rate as wikipedia), linkedin, facebook, archive.org, hacker news, techcrunch, venturebeat interviews, school newspaper interviews, googlefu. i think the more important point is that where this is wrong, to the extent that people care, they are going to let us all know and it will be fixed.