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blog.pitchbook.com is the company blog at blog.pitchbook.com, writing about business, economics and startups. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “Percentage of U.S. VC-backed startups founded by women”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment cites PitchBook posts with data on the share of US VC-backed startups that have female founders, a figure the commenter estimates at 10-22%. It does not evaluate the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Percentage of U.S. VC-backed startups founded by women2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-23
- The Top 50 Universities Producing VC-Backed Entrepreneurs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-27
What Hacker News says?
Assuming it tracks to the norm you've got between 10%[1,2] and 22%[3] of teams with a female founder - or 78-90% all male. [1] http://blog.pitchbook.com/what-percentage-of-u-s-vc-backed-s... [2] http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/26/female-founders-on-an-upwar... [3] http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/78-percent-of-y-combinato... It seems the number is rising. Sample size is 300 companies according to the article.
Comment linking /what-percentage-of-u-s-vc-backed-startups-are-founded-by-women/
on “First Round 10 Year Project”Submitted The Top 50 Universities Producing VC-Backed Entrepreneurs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionBroke down a bunch of data on 11,320 seed rounds and analyzed - Definitely more and more companies creeping into that "$3M+ seed round group" http://blog.pitchbook.com/adding-data-to-the-latest-vc-debat...
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on “Wit.ai (YC W14) raises $3M seed round from Andreessen Horowitz”Submitted The terms, conditions and trends affecting VC-backed unicorns as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFab is already a "dead unicorn" in most people's eyes. During their Series D in 2013, they had a post-val of 1.17B, only to be acquired earlier this year for 15M. I think the biggest problem these current VC-backed unicorns will face is when "venture tourism" comes to an end sometime in the future and all this available cash becomes harder and harder to raise as mutual/hedge funds back slowly away from the private m…
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on “The first dead Unicorn will be Evernote”Submitted A visual summary of VC activity in 2Q 2015 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI think you're right on health/bioinformatics - Seeing a lot of VC money pointed at health/bio, and only expect this to increase. With 58% of VC-backed IPOs in 2014 being in healthcare related industries, there is an allure to invest more there (check out the bottom third of this datagraphic - http://blog.pitchbook.com/a-visual-breakdown-of-vc-in-2014/ ) Software exits were still certainly the highest (470 in 2014),…
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on “Why Some Bankers Are Leaving Finance for Fintech Startups”Submitted Etsy: Crafting an IPO as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere's a big hairy recap of 2014 venture capital: http://blog.pitchbook.com/a-visual-breakdown-of-vc-in-2014/ Nothing on here is alarming at all - look at fundraising, look at how much money was invested in venture companies, look at valuations, look at capital exited; all really healthy. Sure, maybe the "spray and pray" style of seed investment has stopped as VCs are pickier about early stage companies or prefer to…
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on “The number of seed rounds in 2014 fell compared to 2013”Submitted 2014 Venture Capital League Tables as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Percentage of U.S. VC-backed startups founded by women as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Harvard, 4 Other Schools, Make Up Most MBAs at PE & VC Firms as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The top universities producing VC-backed entrepreneurs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Science Behind the Data: Keywords and Search Terms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The number of technology companies going public has dwindled to a trickle as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Investors with the most portfolio company IPOs in the past five years as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Corporations are VCs too as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enterprise-focused startups reap over $4B of VC in ’14 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best breeding ground for unicorns may not be Silicon Valley as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Has the canary sung or are the pros crying wolf over burn rates? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Top 50 Universities Producing VC-Backed Entrepreneurs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Geography of U.S. Venture Investments as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bay Area Continues to Grow Its Share of VC Financings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How 20 big-name VC firms are investing at Series A and B as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analyzing 2Q VC activity in the hottest U.S. markets as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted These datagraphics break down 2Q VC activity in London, Berlin and Paris as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A visual breakdown of global PE activity in 2Q 2015 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mapping out-of-state investments of the most active U.S. VCs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Uber grew its value by $120M per day as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is it even cool to be a unicorn anymore? as a story · 1 points
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