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Re:Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator by ardell on Friday January 30, 2009 @03:43PM (#458656)
Shotput Ventures is a new one launching in Atlanta this summer. It will follow the YC model to the letter.

http://www.shotputventures.com/

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Re:Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator by pg on Saturday January 31, 2009 @12:06AM (#459238)
Man, there are getting to be so many of these things. I hadn't even heard about this one myself yet.
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Re:Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator by sanjayparekh on Saturday January 31, 2009 @12:37PM (#459807)
We're just getting Shotput off the ground. We're going to do our first class this summer. Hope we do you proud!
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Re:Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator by jksmith on Sunday February 01, 2009 @01:33AM (#460628)
From an article about Shotput some time ago:

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2009/01/05/daily9...

"If we don’t understand the idea or the space, Cummings said, we’re not going to [invest in it.]"

Look forward to a lot of mediocre ideas, then. I'm glad early investors didn't say this about things like the gasoline engine. But of course that effort was probably bootstrapped.

Why is it called Shotput?

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Re:Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator by mhartl on Saturday January 31, 2009 @12:10AM (#459240)
Imitation is the sincerest form of something. Maybe you should have gotten a patent.
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