[Kalium]

I was in the first class.

I'm not trying to insinuate anything negative. I just think TechStars Cloud might as well have been a "powered-by" program by another name.

[blakehaggerty]

I work on the team at Rackspace that partners with Accelerators IE TechStars. I can tell you there is solid competition from both Amazon and Softlayer at Techstars and we have no extra/special influence in their accelerator.

[Kalium]

Aside from being a pervasive presence, sure.