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Y Combinator Unloads Massive New Batch of Start-Ups

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Re: Y Combinator Unloads Massive New Batch of Start-Ups

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Post by citricsquid »

Vidyards pricing list is pretty shady/lame.

They compare themselves along side Vimeo Pro and Youtube, under their pricing they list "free" (Vimeo being $199, Youtube also free) and then under a bunch of options for Vidyard that are ONLY available if you pay >cost of Vimeo pro they add a tick, which would imply that they're available for free. It's misleading, it implies it's cheaper to use Vidyard (which it isn't)

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Post by brackin »

Interstate are an awesome team with a well designed product and Picplum is a cool idea although in my opinion it could be even simpler. Like how Google+ is able to take photos off my Android phone for me to review, I realise some of this may not be viable but as long as they find innovative ways to simplify the process further they'll do great.

Not sure about "Google Wave done right", only read their description though so can't comment.

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Post by rjb »

thesnider wrote: post #20

Wait, how are DoubleRecall captchas actually captchas? They appear to be trivially easy to OCR.

They are just "captcha like". I believe the idea is to to make ads bidirectional. Instead of just clicking a banner ad, a user would enter, say, a coupon code for example.

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Post by thesnider »

rjb wrote: post #24
thesnider wrote: post #20

Wait, how are DoubleRecall captchas actually captchas? They appear to be trivially easy to OCR.

They are just "captcha like". I believe the idea is to to make ads bidirectional. Instead of just clicking a banner ad, a user would enter, say, a coupon code for example.

I'm sorry, I don't get it then -- is the plan to force me to enter one before visiting a site? Or are they just display ads with text fields?

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Post by thisisfmu »

a few more were listed previously but for some reason no longer appear in the article:

Hiptic: Stylish, single page websites for everyone. http://www.hiptic.com/

Pingm: Phone systems for sales teams. https://www.pingm.net/

Yardsale: Local mobile peer to peer commerce. http://getyardsale.com/

BentoBox: We bring CRM directly into your inbox. http://www.getbentobox.com/

Re: Y Combinator Unloads Massive New Batch of Start-Ups

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Post by jbail »

Didn't YC classes used to be much much smaller?

It's great publicity having the YC name attached to your startup, but it's a lot of companies to look at in a single sitting. Surely, each one gets a bit less time and attention, which devalues the publicity somewhat.

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Post by thesnider »

WTH? I just tried out DebtEye, and without warning or confirmation, they scheduled me for a call with some sort of debt consultant, which happened despite me immediately replying to their email (sent from support@debteye.com) requesting both that they not try to contact me by phone, and that they delete my account. They have failed on both counts thus far. Badly done, I say! Badly done indeed.

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Post by tptacek »

jbail wrote: post #28

Didn't YC classes used to be much much smaller? It's great publicity having the YC name attached to your startup, but it's a lot of companies to look at in a single sitting. Surely, each one gets a bit less time and attention, which devalues the publicity somewhat.

Like the article says, they're accepting the same fraction of applicants, but getting many more applicants now. YC has also staffed up. It's not just 'pg.
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