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First look at YC Demo Day

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25 pointsrokhayakebe12 comments

I personally liked anywhere.FM on first use. There may be other sites that provide the same features, but I don't know them. My first instinct is to use the website to share my music with my brother who lives on another continent

"... The companies were much higher quality than I expected. The founders were nearly all coders and hackers but did a surprisingly good job at presenting their idea, target market, and business model ..." ~ Don Dodge

Is YC being embraced by the larger VC community?

If so, this is a further tick of approval of the YC techniques used to get startups to market. The quoted comments are a remarkable turn-around in opinion from Don Dodge ('Since when does growing $4 Billion a year = Dead?') and It's great to see the candidates flexing their skills of persuasion. Selling the idea(s) as much as building it.

How much effort went into making sure other VC's could also see the new recruits?

maybe I should have read this ~ http://www.innoeco.com/2007/08/demo-day-at-y-combinator.html

Congrats to all the founders, the launched betas look promising.

I just don't understand why some of these guys are so hell bent on disparaging YC. Whether YC is right or not, time will tell and it's YC that has to worry about it. But, what do _these other people_ gain out of it?

Which team is doing video dating?

They're one of the ones that aren't launched yet. 3/4 of this batch aren't launched yet.

Can we get some hints here? That's like the third best thing after not making it ( the 2nd being we reviewed our product and made it better)

RTFA. the blog post lists a 2-3 word blurb for each company in the first paragraph.

Dude. I need more than that. Anyone could have predicted that. Thats not info

Obviously they haven't launched, but you can imagine that a video dating site is a lot like OKCupid, except everyone has the capability of sending video messages and doing live video chats. They also get to sell webcams, for those that don't have them.

"A stock-picking community?" Worthio two-point-oh?

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