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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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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/

Do you have the cached link?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

You can't see whatever content it is that you are trying to access until you enter the code. The examples on their web site make it pretty clear: http://doublerecall.com/

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

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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/

Those companies are meant to be off the record.

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

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post #3

Curious, only 32 of 63 are on the record. Seems like ratio was higher in previous classes. Any ideas why?

Now that companies are getting 100k from YC and other incubators (AngelPad) they have a longer runway and more time to get their product right for launch.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

You can't see whatever content it is that you are trying to access until you enter the code. The examples on their web site make it pretty clear: http://doublerecall.com/

Ah, ok. Missed that. I knew it had to make sense somehow, just not sure how :)

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

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post #15

Saw demo day yesterday and it was pretty awesome. Lots of interesting startups, and the way Paul & co. coach teams to present is fun to watch. They really make what they're doing seem exciting. It's also kinda like bingo to figure out what the the common phrases they're coached to use are. This batch it seemed common to have some really awesome accomplishment such as "8 bajillion users within 3 seconds of launch," be…

I think I'm most excited by Codeacademy and Parse. I'm hoping to try out Parse with my next project.

Parse: Beta invites please!

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

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post #5

codecademy really needs to buy codeacademy.com...every time I type their name I end up there. Do it fast(by offering to buy the forum), before the guy figures out there is an actual company vying for the name and jacks up the price to 6 figures.

I didn't notice that until just now! That is a naming blunder, but I reckon they were busy making an awesome product in a really short time. It might be best to think of a completely new name. There are still good domain names available. It just takes some patience and creative thinking.

Or they want to expand into other niches, and the code-academy name was just a way of getting eyeballs from people wanting to program (their initial niche).

That's my guess.

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