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If you have a look at the Y Combinator startups (at http://yclist.com), quite a large proportion of the 2008 and earlier startups appear to be dead. Although it only lists "Dead" for a some of them, if you click on the links for the other sites (apart from the ones that say "Exited") you'll see a lot of their websites don't exist any more. It looks like about 80-90% are dead.

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It would be an interesting exercise for someone to go down the list and try and contact each of the seemly dead companies to confirm.

Not sure if there is a way for people to contribute updates to yclist? For example just clicking through from the oldest first I see that the company snipshot was acquired at some point but can't see any tech coverage on it apart from a page on the acquirers website.

I'd be happy to contact and otherwise help out updating that Yclist; hadn't seen it before but there are a lot of older URLs that aren't working. With the corp name (if it's possible to find) for say, California, you can look up the organization and see if it's still active, etc.

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