I thought about it a bit more, especially after seeing that article talking about how %74 of your startups from this round have taken funding or are profitable already -- which I saw as having only %26 of them not be successful (whether among users or VCs) in the super-short-term.
I think you could afford to increase that rate significantly -- if anything, it's too low! Do you have a better metric to gauge your expansion by?
How much of that tranche of un-profitable and un-funded startups has historically been just in continual stealth ramen mode, and how much is actual failure? It'd be really interesting if you could put up some anonymized statistics about the 207 startups from the perspective of the founders. I'd visualize it as a series of images for each quarter, with a grid of venn diagrams of none/dead/acquired/funded/profitable for each YC round up to that point. Put it in a slideshow so you can scrub back and forth in history. Would also work in table form with YC rounds on one axis and time (or time since YC) on the other. I know you're rightly hesitant to talk about YC startups that didn't do well, but I'm not really interested in them specifically, just the collective attrition/success rates over time.
I think you could afford to increase that rate significantly -- if anything, it's too low! Do you have a better metric to gauge your expansion by?
How much of that tranche of un-profitable and un-funded startups has historically been just in continual stealth ramen mode, and how much is actual failure? It'd be really interesting if you could put up some anonymized statistics about the 207 startups from the perspective of the founders. I'd visualize it as a series of images for each quarter, with a grid of venn diagrams of none/dead/acquired/funded/profitable for each YC round up to that point. Put it in a slideshow so you can scrub back and forth in history. Would also work in table form with YC rounds on one axis and time (or time since YC) on the other. I know you're rightly hesitant to talk about YC startups that didn't do well, but I'm not really interested in them specifically, just the collective attrition/success rates over time.