Evaluating the Effects of Accelerators? Not So Fast

"You will notice there is one dot way out on the boundaries of the distribution in each chart. It turns out this dot represents the same accelerator each time, Y-Combinator. Indeed, Christiansen himself points out that Y-Combinator is an outlier."

What really strikes me about this data set is that YCombinator alone has 2x the exits of all the other other accelerators combined, and accounts for 93% of the total exit amount. Whenever someone asks "why you choose YC?" just quote that - its no guarantee of success by any means but I am certainly happy to keep such good company.

I should note the author things the exit value numbers for this study are bogus, so that that stat as an indicator not necessarily a piece of data.