It's about time. India has everything going for it and I'm excited to see what this will produce.
Congratulations!
I am starting - Indian firm based on the YC framework
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#23Design can be overhauled later, and this is not a priority. As for spelling mistakes @colinplamondon, seriously. I give you a venture firm and all you can see it spellings, brilliant? The purpose of this site is to serve as a 2/3 para about the idea, not in for the webby folks.
My company's profitable and I'm American, not your audience. You aren't a gift, you're a business- your business is making entrepreneurs think you can further their business. Your website is unprofessional and doesn't mention who you are, and who you are is the most important. TechStars and YC aren't about the 15k- most of the companies who get accepted these days don't need it. TechStars and YC help people build suc…
check out their code:
wth? is this venture firm serious?
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#24Design can be overhauled later, and this is not a priority. As for spelling mistakes @colinplamondon, seriously. I give you a venture firm and all you can see it spellings, brilliant? The purpose of this site is to serve as a 2/3 para about the idea, not in for the webby folks.
My company's profitable and I'm American, not your audience. You aren't a gift, you're a business- your business is making entrepreneurs think you can further their business. Your website is unprofessional and doesn't mention who you are, and who you are is the most important. TechStars and YC aren't about the 15k- most of the companies who get accepted these days don't need it. TechStars and YC help people build suc…
Don't sweat over it. It's all because of an attitude which is typical to Indian pseudo-VCs. They think they are doing startup-ists[sic] a big favour by investing in them.
So @Chirag is not too queer if he thinks that he can pull off a YC in India by putting up a stupid website with crappy content, bad design and some random names of totally unknown people.
It's OK, it's all right. Kindly adjust :)
PS - I am an Indian startup-ist a$$hole.
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#25Ah the css is so well commented to teach others/waste some bandwidth. +1
Hey guise so in the reset.css can we also replace
"html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6,.... { ..."
with a single * ... you know like -
* {
margin:0;
...
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#26It may be good to add some more detail to the "Who we are" section.
The names and expertise are fine, but perhaps something on the projects/companies these people have worked with. How much experience they have in the respective fields. E.g who is into economics, who is into technology etc.
If you have founded (or funded) any startups, perhaps that can be mentioned. It would make you seem more accessible.
In case of YC, PGs views and history where well understood and respected. You may want to highlight what value you bring to the table (other than the money).
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
My company's profitable and I'm American, not your audience. You aren't a gift, you're a business- your business is making entrepreneurs think you can further their business. Your website is unprofessional and doesn't mention who you are, and who you are is the most important. TechStars and YC aren't about the 15k- most of the companies who get accepted these days don't need it. TechStars and YC help people build suc…
Don't sweat over it. It's all because of an attitude which is typical to Indian pseudo-VCs. They think they are doing startup-ists[sic] a big favour by investing in them. So @Chirag is not too queer if he thinks that he can pull off a YC in India by putting up a stupid website with crappy content, bad design and some random names of totally unknown people. It's OK, it's all right. Kindly adjust :) PS - I am an Indian…
First, a bunch of jokers attempt a YC clone with IAccelerator and now another bunch of jokers manage to do it even worse.
"You aren't a gift, you're a business- your business is making entrepreneurs think you can further their business. Your website is unprofessional and doesn't mention who you are, and who you are is the most important."
Engrave this on a wall and read it aloud every day.
"It's all because of an attitude which is typical to Indian pseudo-VCs. They think they are doing startup-ists[sic] a big favour by investing in them."
Amen! And we wonder why the world laughs at us. I am an Indian developer and all I can say to this "venture firm" is .. I wouldn't be caught dead within a 100 miles of you. I would love to see who would, really.
YC works because of PG and his team, not the 20 k $ (or whatever the amount is these days) that they invest in a startup. Unless you have a fraction of the credibility he brings to the table, you have no business being a YC "inspired" firm.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't sweat over it. It's all because of an attitude which is typical to Indian pseudo-VCs. They think they are doing startup-ists[sic] a big favour by investing in them. So @Chirag is not too queer if he thinks that he can pull off a YC in India by putting up a stupid website with crappy content, bad design and some random names of totally unknown people. It's OK, it's all right. Kindly adjust :) PS - I am an Indian…
First, a bunch of jokers attempt a YC clone with IAccelerator and now another bunch of jokers manage to do it even worse. "You aren't a gift, you're a business- your business is making entrepreneurs think you can further their business. Your website is unprofessional and doesn't mention who you are, and who you are is the most important." Engrave this on a wall and read it aloud every day. "It's all because of an att…
> First, a bunch of jokers attempt a YC clone with IAccelerator and now another bunch of jokers manage to do it even worse.
So whats the deal with IAccelerator? This is the first I have hear of it. And the two comments I see in this thread are no so positive about it.
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#291. src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.1.min.js. Use http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.1/jquery.min...
2. $(document).ready() twice in the same document. Use only one.
3. id='pagewidth'. Use id='about'.
My intention is not to point technical problems for the sake of it. But you should seriously treat this site itself as a little startup, invest your seed fund (your lowest band of 50k is enough. I know can do it for that amount :) into it and then start attracting other techies to join you. As part of knowing more about you, first thing any potential startupper will do in a browser (at least me) is press ctrl+u.
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#30Basically seems like a new pseudo-VC who's roped in a bunch of rich civilians into this great-YC-idea-you-know-small-stakes-small-investments-but-BIG-returns Fund.
This is one of the cases where 'Launch Now, Fix later' doesn't really work out at all with your target audience.