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Re:Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator by lliiffee on Friday January 30, 2009 @02:09PM (#458495)
This is obviously trivial, but why have a "* - required" thing on the application form when every element is required?
Re:Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator by owkaye on Friday January 30, 2009 @09:02PM (#459107)
The fields are not all required, but the web page itself is certainly bad -- it's black with gray text that has so little contract to the background that I have to "Select All" just to be able to read it. They may be capable of doing great things but I am so turned off by their failure to provide a comfortably readable web page that I question whether or not they can handle the bigger issues.
Re:Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator by joshuabaer on Friday January 30, 2009 @10:50PM (#459191)
Thanks for the feedback Owkaye - the current website is just a Typepad blog that we threw up for the launch, but we have a designer doing a custom template for us that should be up there soon. We'll focus on making the text more readable.
Re:Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator by joshuabaer on Friday January 30, 2009 @10:58PM (#459198)
It's a Google form that pipes into a spreadsheet. We can't really control the display of the * but its important that they are all marked as required so it won't let you submit the form with a field that's missing.