Re:Ignite 100, The UK YC?
by fernandose on Friday July 01, 2011 @05:33AM
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anyone know the relationship between this and springboard? Seems to contain a lot of the same people, even some of the pages looks similar to the sb site?
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Same guy running it (jdbradford). It'll be the 4th accelerator cycle he's run (3rd in the north-east).
Re:Ignite 100, The UK YC?
by dmitri1981 on Friday July 01, 2011 @06:06AM
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Makes me wonder why there are so many iterations. Also, have there been any interesting success stories to come out of his accelerators?
Three I know of:
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/01/27/screenreach-raises-50000...
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/loveyourlarder-wants-to-...
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/23/curated-by/
Not sure about Springboard, the programme is still going on.
Re:Ignite 100, The UK YC?
by jessinblue on Friday July 01, 2011 @12:34PM
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Yep, first cycle of Springboard will finish end of July, so let's see what happens from there!
Makes me wonder why there are so many iterations
Why? Isn't iteration a good sign? The accelerators have only been going for the last couple of years so it's too soon to cite 'success' (unless you count fundraising as newsworthy)
Re:Ignite 100, The UK YC?
by dmitri1981 on Friday July 01, 2011 @06:34AM
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Don't get me wrong, I am all in favour of the work they are doing. I was just wondering about what was and what was not working for them.
I guess it's easy to get used to YC companies bursting out of the gates and making an impact from the get go that I thought it strange I did not know any companies from those accelerators.