{"id":427819,"date":"2010-03-14T23:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T03:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/?p=105675"},"modified":"2010-03-14T23:00:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T03:00:14","slug":"techstars-grades-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/427819","title":{"rendered":"TechStars Grades Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TechStars<\/a>, a seed-stage investment program which has outposts in Boulder, Colo., as well as Boston and Seattle, recently decided to grade itself<\/a>. So far, the group is not doing too badly. Out of the 39 companies to come out of TechStars, 29 are still active, five were acquired and four failed. Twenty-seven have\u00a0managed to raised outside funding or bootstrap their way to profitability. So far, TechStar startups have raised about $16.5 million in seed-stage funding from outside investors.<\/p>\n

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Late December, Imran Ghory offered a similar analysis<\/a> for Y Combinator, a start-up school and investment program co-founded byPaul Graham<\/a>. According to Ghory’s data, over the years, Y Combinator had seen 14 acquisitions, 33 had failed and 82 were still active, of which 24 had raised more outside capital. Reddit (acquired by Conde Nast) was one of the early stars of the Y Combinator program. My two favorite Y Combinator alumni are Dropbox and Xobni.<\/p>\n

Related:\u00a0Notes from a conversation with Paul Graham<\/a> &\u00a0Found\/Read Interview with Paul Graham.<\/a><\/p>\n

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TechStars, a seed-stage investment program which has outposts in Boulder, Colo., as well as Boston and Seattle, recently decided to grade itself. So far, the group is not doing too badly. Out of the 39 companies to come out of TechStars, 29 are still active, five were acquired and four failed. Twenty-seven have\u00a0managed to raised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}