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tagawa
Wish there was a currency converter for VC$ to US$
aristus 

  import random
  def vcd2usd(vcdollars):
      if random.randint(0, 9) == 9:
          return random.randint(0, 30) * vcdollars
      return 0
officialchicken
What additional compiler flags I need to pass in order to guarantee that (0 * vcdollars) is always greater than 1?
mtjl79
You made my day. Haha, thank you.
paul
It's the same currency actually. I haven't had any trouble using my dollars to buy cars, houses, etc.
tagawa
Sorry for the snarky comment. I was frustrated at the "$7.8 Billion In Value" headline - I don't like that "value" is measured by what the founders get out of a startup rather than what users get out of it (or are prepared to pay for it). I admit that's much harder to measure, however.
benologist
This is a duplicate (probably why you submitted page 2) but worse than that it's just pandering for pageviews.

1) YC comes in at #1 because $7.8 billion in value, where by value they mean the valuation on termsheets and more specifically they're talking about Dropbox and AirBNB.

2) TechStars wins 2nd place based on a different metric, 73 of their participants raising a total of $134m between them plus they helped other incubators.

3) DreamIt get 3rd, or "DreamOt" as they also spelt it - potentially using the valuation metric but this time of just one startup - Scvngr raised $15m at a $100m valuation

4) AngelPad win 4th place using yet another method... they were founded by a bunch of ex-Googlers

etc.

SODaniel
Nicely misleading and view-bait headline. Has nothing to do with Y-Combinators value but the total estimated value of the total of all their portfolio companies, not their share.
bkyan
For what it's worth, I created a mindcast of the 15 accelerators/incubators listed in the article, so that I could perform my own research and rank them accordingly. (I'm more interested in suitability for my startup rather than valuations.) http://beta.mindcast.com/ui/roeuyyxq6dpc
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