Important numbers.

" To date, Yo has had over 2 million installs of the app and currently has over 2,000 developers who have started working with the API. "

Congrats! PH is a very good growth hacking case study for entrepreneurs.

YC's goal is to help startups take first baby steps and raise money on a larger scale.

So most important stat is what % of companies do that. Based on your data it seems (76 + XYZ) out of 716 where XYZ is companies out of 121 exits who raised more money prior to exit.

It'd be interesting to know based on cohort (batch) analysis if YC is getting better in achieving its goal or not.

It'd also be interesting to know where YC stands on this compared to other comparable accelerators/incubators.

> YC's goal is to help startups take first baby steps and raise money on a larger scale.

I thought YC companies have moved up in maturity over the years. More specifically, I thought current YC batches have more companies that have built product, found early product/market fit and are now ready to grow.

While phrased as a statement, the above is more of a question, since I don't know the answer.

That said, "and raise money on a larger scale" is still probably spot on and hasn't change much over the years.

This isn't quite right, those 76 are the ones that have not yet exited. Many of the exited companies also raised money and were not included in that particular stat.

I did some cohort analysis comparing YC, 500, and Techstars over a year ago. Probably time for another one: http://mattermark.com/startup-index-y-combinator-companies-h...

> "YC's goal is to help startups ... raise money on a larger scale."

I don't think this is YC's goal. I recall comments from pg to the effect that if all the companies raised money on demo day, then maybe YC wasn't selecting properly (for the risky, out-there, stuff).

Quote from the about page (http://www.ycombinator.com/about/) ...

"At Y Combinator, our goal is to get you through the first phase. This usually means: get you to the point where you’ve built something impressive enough to raise money on a larger scale. Then we can introduce you to later stage investors—or occasionally even acquirers."

I stand corrected, thank you.

What I was trying to get at above was that if "% of companies funded" post demo-day is a metric YC wants to maximise, then it would be trivial for them to get to near 100% by only selecting the obviously investable propositions 3 months earlier. If they did this, they'd simply be following whatever fad that VCs happen to be chasing and might miss outliers (even PG tried to convince the Airbnb founders to try something else).

How much time Quora founders are going to spend at YC headquarter during the program ?

Dividend amount is usually based on extra cash generated by a company. However, lower margin does not directly translate to less cash generated by the company.

This might impact startup fundraising trajectory. Investors may prefer to wait out for 3 weeks if VC partner's investment is a strong enough signal for them.

With billion dollar valuations these are not startups rather corporate giants.

Obviously not inherently true, and in no way tied to valuation.

Instagram, as one easy example, had a billion dollar valuation with three dozen employees and was anything but a corporate giant.

No, it does not mean only build for iOS onwards.

It means give primary focus to iOS7 in terms of performance, UI, design idioms, usage of underlying technologies etc….

It means don't build apps targeting prior iOS and just reply upon backward compatibility of iOS7. Use iOS7 as your main target OS.

Any reference to support your claim that LLVM bit code is quite large ?

It's quite obvious if you look at the spec. It retains very large amounts of information that is simply not needed merely for executing programs, but is quite useful for compiler backends and tools.

It's quite smart to write a LLVM backend and frontend for a custom (compact) bytecode.

"Finalized" and gzipped PNaCl code is about the same size as gzipped x86 or gzipped emscripten-generated JS code. PNaCl code seems to have a static overhead of about 400kByte, probably statically linked code which is either handled through Web APIs in emscripten, or dynamically linked CRT in native executables.

You need both to add value. How would a technology that is not used by anyone add value ? Note that, marketing is not just advertising.