Y Combinator presents 26 new startups
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Y Combinator presents 26 new startups
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#2I'll take the contrarian stance and say I'm not really impressed with the list. There are some that may be good, but there's not much new. Mostly me too products.
Perhaps my expectations are too high.
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#3A couple of single founders in this season's batch. Interesting.
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#4There are a few gems in there that I'd like to see more of (etacts for instance), but overall I'm dismayed by the sheer volume of SV navel-gazing produced twitter junk.
I'd love to see more ideas around PG's list of things he'd like to fund being presented instead of yet another "social collaboration because what else is there?" startup.
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#5Embedster and Embedly ... confusingly similar names
Re: Y Combinator presents 26 new startups
#6Embedster and Embedly ... confusingly similar names
I can't ever keep any variation of -ster, -ly and -ify straight.
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#7I like etacts, notifo, and zencoder. Others like the newspaper ones sounds interesting but aren't applicable to me.
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#8If anyone's interested, all of these are now on my "Seed accelerators and their companies" spreadsheet on Google Docs.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1...
Corrections (particularly in early years of YC) welcome!
Re: Y Combinator presents 26 new startups
#9I'll take the contrarian stance and say I'm not really impressed with the list. There are some that may be good, but there's not much new. Mostly me too products. Perhaps my expectations are too high.
I suspect that in times of crisis people tend to play it safe and start more 'simple' companies, with safer business models, instead of swinging for the fences with experimental ideas that have no clear future or business model.
Still, there are some very interesting companies in this batch that are not particularly sexy but might have great potential.
Re: Y Combinator presents 26 new startups
#10A couple of single founders in this season's batch. Interesting.
Must be pretty impressive people behind it and has a viable demo.