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by sanjayparekh 6308 days ago
So I guess there is a two part answer. I should have said that in the title of this post but the wording I used was confusing and removed by the powers that be - as it should be. I didn't change it to say "inspired by" because it's a moot point.

We also didn't say it on the site because we didn't want people to think we were approved or licensed in some way to be YC in Atlanta. We aren't and we didn't ask for approval. In fact PG made a comment on a previous post that he hadn't heard of us and couldn't keep up with the clones.

That said, we are taking the YC forms (thanks for open sourcing those!) and using those as a base for us. There are likely some minor changes for Georgia law but for this initial round we are innovating close to zero. We want to try it first and see what happens. If we want to innovate after that, we will.

That said, I wouldn't say just "inspired by" I'd say "heavily inspired by".