samjewell

Does anyone have any data on what fraction of YC startups go on to ultimately succeed/fail, at each successive fundraise? And I guess *how* well or badly they succeed/fail? I'm partly just curious, partly interested to try to get some kind of "expected value" of any options offered as part of remuneration. Any relevant dataset would be interesting to me - thanks!

We're a product team of 6, in a company of 20 people. We've tried to implement design-review to be like code-review, but we're having limited success. We've talked about:

- Reviewing "every line" of a design - Assigning designs to named reviewers, who should request changes, and then approve - A checklist of criteria the design must meet

Problems we've hit: - Design review is missed entirely before coding starts. - Reviewer barely scratches the surface, and misses huge issues - Most tickets/designs don't say whether review was passed or not

How do you handle this at your company? What tools/processes do you use?