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Re: Bang Ventures: the American Idol of tech

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Re: Bang Ventures: the American Idol of tech

Linda Johnson — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:09:13 -0000

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Re: Bang Ventures: the American Idol of tech

Macaroni Mike — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:32:18 -0000

Yea right, as if anyone ever launched a hugely successful business from such contests and shows!

Just line up all the "winners" of MIT's past such contests and you'll see.

Fully agree with Dave Mcclure's formula above.

Re: Bang Ventures: the American Idol of tech

Sanjay Vijayakumar — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:49:35 -0000

Hey...i think the is a very important factor even in countries like India.

Re: Bang Ventures: the American Idol of tech

davemc500hats — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:04:26 -0000

hmmm. sounds like good entertainment, and i'm all for more innovation around startup / venture process, but i gotta think the formula ain't:

Startup Success = Founder(idea) + Bang(engineers + cash)

more like:

Startup Success = Founder(idea + engineers) + VC(cash) + [lots of iteration]

either way, founders are a lot more important than the [initial] idea. great people will tweak a so-so idea, and figure out how to make it work. not so great people will f*#@ up even the best ideas and crater.

still, should be fun to watch the pitch & critique sessions

Re: Bang Ventures: the American Idol of tech

Paul Graham — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:55:06 -0000

The average age of Y Combinator founders is 25. Except in the stoner community I don't think that's "college age."

Re: Bang Ventures: the American Idol of tech

Andrew Fife — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:23:53 -0000

Is this thing going to be televised? YoubetheVC.com doesn't even show up in Alexa, so their promise to deliver a voting user-base is unproven, and I don't see how any of their judges are qualified to vet startups. Google is an anomaly, Pownce still has a lot to prove and baseball just isn't related to technology startups at all.

I'm pretty skeptical that this will work out financially the VC LPs, but I am curious to see how it plays out agree with the "why not" sentiment... that it is an interesting experiment.