Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?
I discovered an unexpected benefit of being plagiarized: it makes imitators easy to find.  A couple days ago I was curious how many YC clones there are now, so I tried to make an up to date list.  The most fruitful source was to search in Google for distinctive phrases from our application form.  Practically all of them copy that, and more often than not they leave chunks of verbatim text unchanged.<p>(I found 26.  Some are still unlaunched.)