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http://www.betaspring.com/

by ghoti • 17 years ago

2 7 17 years ago

What do you think of YC clones/rip-offs? This one for example asks for 1% investment for limited legal advice and access to online incorporation papers. Do you think it's worth it?

Leave your thoughts in the comments.

jacquesm• 17 years ago

Why a rip-off ? Isn't the incubator a very old model ?

pg• 17 years ago

Odd. I hadn't heard of this one. It looks like it was supposed to happen this summer, but it doesn't seem to have.

projectileboy2• 17 years ago

Their blog page looks as if they're rolling: http://www.betaspring.com/blog/

tsondermann2• 17 years ago

We're rolling. (I'm the program director). Started out small this summer with 7 companies with plans to increase to a dozen in our next round.

Of course I'm biased, but I'm not sure I'd call us a rip-off. We make no bones about the fact that we are attempting to replicate a model that has been shown to be extremely successful in other cities.

gruseom• 17 years ago

Just out of curiosity, has the model been shown to be extremely successful in other cities? Is there evidence that anyone has succeeded with it to the degree that YC has? (My gut feeling is that it's a lot harder to replicate YC than the "model" makes it seem.)

Good luck anyway. The more opportunities for founders to create something valuable, instead of being stifled in corporate environments, the better.

projectileboy2• 17 years ago

They seem to be trying pretty hard to be Y Combinator, which is fine of course, except that it causes silly behavior, like linking to every startup resource on the web except Paul Graham's essays on startups.

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