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Another YC Clone - Dream IT Ventures

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7 pointstheoutlander10 comments

This has been posted before, when it first was announced in Jan and mentioned in other posts: http://searchyc.com/dreamit

Since it was announced, I've seen Dreamit up close and personal, and have been encouraged from what I've seen. The principals involved are experienced and intelligent. And there are some promising companies in the first batch.

I agree - I saw the demos of all of the teams during the kickoff and there are some really good ideas/groups. Josh Kopelman gave an inspiring speech.

Don't people have any imagination?

I mean seriously, this is almost a complete ripoff. Can't they at the very least try to expand a bit on the Y-combinator idea instead of just blatantly ripping it off like that. Apparently it is harder to get a good idea of your own than I thought.

Oh, I don't know about that. Many of the details seem different -- for instance, instead of the partners trying to advise everybody at once they'll assign you a "guru". They distinguish between "innovators" and "strategists" as two types of people that they want applications from. They are less focused on the "web app" field than YC seems to be.

I know two of the companies in the first batch, and they're both exciting ideas with smart founders. They differentiate themselves in some ways from the YC model: they're broader in scope, focus less on "hackers", and get an MBA student to work with each team.

Couldn't they at least anti-alias the graphics on the homepage?

Wish they had a better logo, might seem more legit.

I don't know, it could be worse, like their partner's Comic Sans logo: http://www.midcoastcapital.com/

It seems that this differs from Y-combinator in that "innovators" and "strategists" apply separately and parter up later on during the program after meeting each other and finding suitable matches.

Strange they haven't heard of antialiasing.

And they're using ASP?

I guess it's pretty clear that whatever advice they are giving you, it's not going to be technical; and that's underscored by their "guru"/speaker list of management types instead of programmers.

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