You shouldn't have accepted companies that you couldn't afford to pay. You shouldn't have asked them to move to a different country. Very reckless and irresponsible and to then attack the poster as "twisting the truth" about tiny details seems even worse to me. You should be sorry. You should show some humility.
I agree completely with apphacker. Being evil or unfair on the Internet is anathema to a (web) startup-related enterprise. 3 out of 7 startups funded is ridiculous. With this hitting the HN community, your best hope is that all three of those startups make it big, or you've just lost whatever credibility you have (with startups that count).
Perhaps in the interests of total transparency on this, Bootup should come clean and reveal precisely how the so-called "Management Fee" is disbursed going forward?
$50K for 8 months is a lot of rent and accounting services.
If the Management Fee pays for the managers' salaries, like Danny and Boris Wertz, then they are not necessarily incentivized to have quality startups in each cohort... more important to Bootup in that circumstance is having enough startups to cover their overhead in each 8 month cycle.
As someone who made the same decisions that Jamie did as a cohort member at Bootup, in reference to your comment I don't think this is accurate. We knew the deal, which was contingent, and I moved from Chicago with that knowledge.
