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Has anyone on HN gone through this program? I'm probably just dense but this is the first time I've heard of these guys. What do we know about them? Seems li

Has anyone on HN gone through this program? I'm probably just dense but this is the first time I've heard of these guys. What do we know about them? Seems like your standard YC clone (not that there's anything wrong with that).

michaelbuckbee 16y ago
Our company - [The Social Collective](http://www.thesocialcollective.com http://www.thesocialcollective.com) - was part of last years class (their second). It is very much in the spirit of YCombinator/TechStars where the focus is very much on advice and structure and execution. I would definitely not be worried about a [Bootup Labs](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1266723 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1266723) type situation or anything like that. All of the startup CEO / Founder / Mentors that they brought in were excellent and gave extremely frank practical advice. This was actually somewhat surprising because if you're hanging out on HN; watching talks these people give it's somewhat easy to think that you're getting the full picture. But, when you sit down at lunch with a founder and he describes exactly what happened in a situation the take away is quite different. If you are at the right stage with your startup, I would definitely recommend applying to their program.