I had a bit of a dilema on that point. I'm reasonably connected with the london startup scene, which naturally has connections to the YC scene, so I know through a fairly reliable grapevine that some of the acquisitions were "mercy acquisitions". However given this information is essentially "private" I don't feel comfortable publically disclosing it, so I've stuck to public published data about acquisitions.
I'm going to go into the acquistions a bit more in another post, I'll see if I can find some way around the dilema.
I'm going to go into the acquistions a bit more in another post, I'll see if I can find some way around the dilema.