Title: I won&#x27;t name names, but a YC alum runs a company that is in direct competition with a company in 500 Startups&#x27; latest batch.<p>500 Startups just had their Demo Day this past Wednesday, and the non-500 competitor managed to &quot;sneak in&quot; to the Demo Day to (allegedly) &quot;snipe&quot; their competitor&#x27;s pitch and their competitor&#x27;s interested investors.<p>The competitor then bought ads online for anything related to 500 Startups, to leverage the increased press surrounding Demo Day and the latest 500 Startups batch of companies.<p>What do you all think? Is this a &quot;dirty&quot; tactic or does it qualify as an aggressive but clever &quot;hack&quot;?<p>P.S. Reminds me of this recent story on Uber (&quot;Uber rival accuses car service of dirty tactics&quot;) that was on the front page of HN:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7115177
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