Yet Another YCombinator Clone

http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/27/yet-another-ycombinator-clone/

by usablecontent • 19 years ago

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sethjohn• 19 years ago

Sounds like good news to me. YC can't pick every good team, and can't be the right fit for every good team. Highland seems to be specifically seeking life sciences and what looks like some more techie (non-software) ideas.

They seem to have their dates confused in the article, though. How can this program have "just launched" if the application due date was 11 days ago?

gyro_robo3• 19 years ago

Not only can't YC pick every good team, but they have a bias towards certain types of start-ups: fairly simple websites (reddit, octopart, pollground, etc.).

CRV loans up to $250k which opens up a wider range of start-up possibilities. E.g. if you are working on something involving hardware; remember Apple really got moving with a $250k line of credit backed by Mike Markkula (consumer price index says $250k in 1977 is about $855k in 2006 dollars).

pg3• 19 years ago

Actually we'll take any promising startup, and some of the most promising we've funded weren't "simple websites." Particularly Loopt, Xobni, Textpayme and an as-yet unlaunched database startup.

Though frankly, Octopart isn't exactly a "simple website" either. It's a search engine, and in some ways more complicated than Google. Is Google a "simple website?" (If so, bring 'em on.)

usablecontent• 19 years ago

The consumer price index might hold true for hardware but how will you justify it for software ??

pg3• 19 years ago

This isn't news; it was posted here several weeks ago.

Yet Another YCombinator Clone

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