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Poll: If it wasn't YC who would it be?

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If you were to apply to a "yc" clone, which one would it be?

You missed on: None (they're all in the wrong place)

I don't actually know that of the last two, as I've never heard of them...but if you're not in Silicon Valley, you're probably in the wrong place for starting a tech startup that needs to raise money (and maybe the wrong place for any kind of tech startup...though there are other places where good tech talent is widely available, though maybe not as many willing to take a chance on working on equity-based compensation in a startup).

I actually think this applies to YC in Boston, as well. All of the startups that have started in Boston who wanted to continue have moved to the valley after the program.

Here is the RRW article detailing all the above and some others! http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/guide_to_seed_fund_incu...

Considering that all of these came up after YC, I'm not sure we can even assume these companies would exist without YC having first been created.

Granted I'm fairly certain someone would've conceived the YC model eventually.

I'm not so sure someone would have come up with this exact approach. Incubators have been around for a while, but they seemed to involve less collaborative mentoring and higher bars for entry. To my mind, YC was designed to address a specific population and problem space simultaneously. On the investor side, that seems very unique. The best analogy I can think of is a magnet school for tech entrepreneurs. The difference is previous attempts thought more about what could they take from the entrepreneurs than what could they give them (apart from cash). To me, the knowledge and support is the most critical element and YC.news is a very nice outgrowth of that. What incubator ever produced a product to help facilitate knowledge sharing among people outside the incubator?

Most of the other ones are incubators that deal in YC-magnitude investments, rather than YC which is explicitly not an incubator.

I don't know enough about the others to say, really.

It's La France, you illiterate chimp :-)

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