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Interesting news. This is essentially what I predicted in the paper I wrote on Y Combinator and its clones. http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2009/09/21/copying
by jedc 16y ago
Interesting news. This is essentially what I predicted in the paper I wrote on Y Combinator and its clones.
http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2009/09/21/copying-y-combinator-why-and-how/ http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2009/09/21/copying-y-combina...
Short version: Don't blindly copy YC. Do something distinct and different, or you're always going to be a second-tier programme.
Good luck to Shotput Ventures in your re-start.
- sanjayparekh 16y agoThanks and note that we were never "blindly" copying their model. It was a place for us to start and then see what worked or didn't and start innovating from there. Obviously, we're a bunch of entrepreneurs so we're always going to be tinkering and toying with the model so that we drive value both for ourselves and the startups we invest in.