On: Warned of a Crash, Startups in Silicon Valley Narrow Their Focus

[daniel_levine]

Wufoo did YC then didn't raise a Series A, before eventually selling to SurveyMonkey. Olark raised from YC, then a Seed and that's it. Statuspage did YC and then Seed and then sold to Atlassian. These are just some examples off the top of my head, I'm sure I could come up with a ton more.

[dasmoth → daniel_levine]

Thanks for these examples. Going for a relatively early sale/acquisition/acquihire returns capital to the seed investors, so not really quite the scenario that I was thinking of, but the Olark example is very interesting.

I wonder whether they've paid dividends to YC?

[daniel_levine → dasmoth]

In the instances of those acquisitions, it was purely the choice of the founders as the investors have no control over that decision.