Can anyone confirm that TextPayMe was acquired by Amazon? I wonder if this is the YC acquisition that they still cant talk about. That would have been over a year ago..
Is it standard practice for publically traded companies to keep acquisitions secret? I know price does not need to be disclosed if it does not have any real effect on shareholders, but keeping an acquisition secret all together just doesn't seem right to me.
ok looks like i got quite a few(in fact nearly all) things wrong there..
@socmoth: ya i no the list aint accurate and highly pessimistic but was just tryin to get an idea of whos around and whos not.. and some sort of data to discuss wld be better than none at all so..
Once again no offense meant to any hus very much alive and kicking.. and i see that all those under my doubtfuls list are also very much alive.. heartening to know.
the updated list looks thus:
Alive: Weebly, Virtualmin, Jamglue, Scribd, Pairwise, auctomatic(blog returns error but they'r brand new so..), Bountii(again no blog but new), draftmix(no blog), fuzzwich, anywhere.fm, Xobni, i'm in like with you, Justin.tv,Versionate, Octopart, Buxfer, adpinion, Socialmoth, Heysan.
well only the follwing companies remain in the dark now:
Thinkature(Dec 2006), Shoutfit(site doesnt even load!), Flagr(Dec 2006).
ok my criteria for whether they are alive or not is to whether they have updated their blog in the last month at the least or not..
Alive: Weebly, Virtualmin, Jamglue, Scribd, Pairwise, auctomatic(blog returns error but they'r brand new so..), Bountii(again no blog but new), draftmix(no blog), fuzzwich(no blog but new), anywhere.fm, Xobni, i'm in like with you, Justin.tv,
Dead: Thinkature(Dec 2006), Shoutfit(site doesnt even load!), Flagr(Dec 2006), Versionate(July 2007.. just 4 posts and then mysterious disappearance without a word), Octopart(oct 2007), Buxfer(oct 2007) [if u guys are still around please dont chase me down with a hacksaw or smthn..]
can't say: adpinion(in beta but if i remember right they'v been round quite long and have no blog so... no offense guys if ur workin ur asses off...), Socialmoth, Heysan(tho i think they are alive),
my criteria for whether they are alive or not is to whether they have updated their blog in the last month
GI, GO. At least half the companies you mention as dead are still alive. But I would not want to say precisely which, because dying is not a sharply defined thing. Startups not infrequently come back from what seems to be death, and we wouldn't want to hose one that might by publicly declaring them so.
I think loopt might be alive too, but hanging by a thread. I remember pg saying on many occasions that loopt is yc's least successful company. Probably not worth mentioning, though. Please check sarcasm meters prior to downvoting.
Octopart is still alive. A month ago, they went to Make Faire, and they released a parts list widget about three weeks ago. They add features quietly and on the down low.
Versionate and Buxfer are definitely still around.
AdPinion, definitely still around. Heysan, was hiring recently, so definitely still around. SocialMoth, it's just Paul now, I think...but doing well as a maker of Facebook apps.
I'm glad to see that Virtualmin is immune to the "no blog post in a month==company is dead" rule. We blog very rarely, though we're trying to be better about it. ;-)
Adpinion still alive, in fact, we're testing them on some of our pages. Heysan still alive because the service works. Social moth is trying facebook stuff now I think. Luke, wherever you are, I got your back dawg.
You'll be interested in the "Status" column.