Re:Ask HN: What is Y Combinator's 'anti-portfolio' like
by jacquesm on Saturday September 05, 2009 @04:34PM
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But do you keep tabs on your 'control group' or do you part ways?
The statistics would be very interesting.
I assume that plenty of projects that did get off the ground would have done so regardless of YC investing in them, and plenty of projects that YC invested in that have tanked would have done so anyway.
An effect does not even imply that it has to be positive, though I would assume that to be the case if there is one. But it might even be negative, though it would take a fair amount of research to prove that one way or the other.
Do you stay in touch with the (potential) founders that you reject and do you keep track of their eventual success or failure ?
Edit: And if you do keep track how many of the ones that you rejected have succeeded vs the ones that you have funded ?
The statistics would be very interesting.
I assume that plenty of projects that did get off the ground would have done so regardless of YC investing in them, and plenty of projects that YC invested in that have tanked would have done so anyway.
An effect does not even imply that it has to be positive, though I would assume that to be the case if there is one. But it might even be negative, though it would take a fair amount of research to prove that one way or the other.
Do you stay in touch with the (potential) founders that you reject and do you keep track of their eventual success or failure ?
Edit: And if you do keep track how many of the ones that you rejected have succeeded vs the ones that you have funded ?