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Maybe I'm blind or searchiotic but cliffs on what the other 6 are doing? I think YC is one of the few places that could actually disrupt the academic publishin
by kriro 13y ago
Maybe I'm blind or searchiotic but cliffs on what the other 6 are doing?
I think YC is one of the few places that could actually disrupt the academic publishing and reputation-bargaining field so I'm hoping some nonprofit will tackle this eventually.
- pg 13y agoThey haven't all announced we funded them yet, but another one that did today is Zidisha: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/23/zidisha-launches-a-kickstarter-style-micro-lending-platform-for-low-income-entrepreneurs-in-developing-countries/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/23/zidisha-launches-a-kickstar... Incidentally, Scribd started out as a way to disrupt academic publishing. To do it they wrote a lot of stuff for handling PDFs, and as often happens in startups that became the tail that wagged the dog.
- kriro 13y agoLooks pretty cool. Having lived in Africa for a bit I like this idea (and hope they can get around certain issues). Just created an account and completed a loan request by one of the borrowers (might be the first 0% loan I have ever given outside of my family) :)