Twitter acquires BackType (YC S08)
[ YC08 ]<p>BackType has raised a total of $1.32m according to <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/backtype" rel="nofollow">http://www.crunchbase.com/company/backtype</a><p>No speculation as to the size of the acquisition, but I guess anything between $10-100m is possible, which would give YC a return of about 3% (6% adjusted down to 70% twice) of that, or somewhere between $300k and $3m?<p>"YCombinator: turning $15k into $300k in 3 years"<p>Not bad.<p>Edit: This is based on the idea that BackType is successful, and had other options (which may not be the case, since their QuantCase/Compete graph is going down)... if they were about to go bust, the price could be considerably lower... but if they were doing well, I imagine investors would have blocked a sale lower than $10m.