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To have the top 50 companies seems does more of a disservice to the people named in the top. 50 is just too many! After that it just seems like you lose the attention, impact and intensity of being on top.

What is the success rate of the companies that have participated in the past? Does anyone have stats on that?

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You tell me:

http://www.techcrunch50.com/2007/

How many of those companies do you recognize after a year...

Maybe it was a rhetorical question but xobni, mint and flock are the only ones I recognize and the only one I really use everyday is xobni. Mint is OK but I really only read the summary emails and don't log in often.

I'd say:

Mint Powerset (though only because of permanent beta) TripIt (awesome!) Flock (for some, not me) Xobni

And with a decent effort, any of them would have been just as successful without TC40. (Though TC40 could very well have helped them quite a bit.)

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