Startups On TV: TechStars Teams Up With Bloomberg

Techstars has been doing this for a while: <a href="http://www.techstars.org/thefounders/" rel="nofollow">http://www.techstars.org/thefounders/</a><p>It just wasn't on TV.<p>The idea originally came from Hollywood, but they produced it all by themselves: <a href="http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/06/the-techstars-story-unfolding-each-week.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/06/the-techstars-story-...</a>

5 years ago I told my wife how the startup world was drastically underrepresented in bookstores. I suggested that it would change fast. And the book world has in fact caught up. Now it would seem time for some TV action. The challenge will be making the hard work behind a startup entertaining enough for TV. Of course, the HN crowd would find it entertaining even if they were to scroll through code for an hour solid. :)

I've been waiting for this to happen for so long. Glad a dignified organization like Bloomberg picked this up, I wonder if there were any bids from MTV or Bravo for that matter.

I don't think I'd be too interested in watching this but I'd very much like to see a one off documentary on YC - maybe following a few of the companies through the 3 month cycle and including interviews with pg et al, some members of the alumni network and prominent valley investors who have worked with them.

<i>Seven of the eleven TechStars Winter Program startups have also gone on to raise funding, with a few more soon to close, Tisch and Cohen said.</i><p>This really surprises me. Hackers &#38; Founders boot strapped an incubator, with BizSpark paying for our weekly dinners and space rental. Since then, all 6 of our graduating companies have gone on to raise money. <a href="http://hackersandfounders.tv" rel="nofollow">http://hackersandfounders.tv</a>. We were also happy to refer startups to other incubators.<p>But, 5 weeks since our last dinner, and the six companies have raised $1.4M in total. We referred two of them to 500 Startups, and their demo day is next week, so those numbers are only going to go up.

I wonder who will get the $5 million. The suspense is killing me!<p><a href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/06/03/onswipe-raises-5-m-series-awesome-from-lerer-eniac-betaworks-and-more/" rel="nofollow">http://www.betabeat.com/2011/06/03/onswipe-raises-5-m-series...</a>

Sweet. When's the YC version coming out? :)

I wonder if YC was approached...would love to hear why they turned down...if they did.