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Would YC ever go the Techstars route and make it a city by city 'franchise'?
Seems unlikely. They sold their Boston office location and if you were maintaining a geographically distinct second location, Boston would be where to do it.
http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html
And if, as nearly everyone who knows agrees, startups are better off in Silicon Valley than Boston, then they're better off in Silicon Valley than everywhere else too.
YC sounds amazing from the outside. I'm not a part, nor will I ever be. (I'm an entrepreneur in the software space, but I'm not a technical founder and have no plans to pick up any books on code, which means I'm out of the running immediately...and understandably.) However, also from the outside, it seems like YC is creating entrepreneurs that experience their first business startup in a dreamworld that doesn't exist…
YC sounds amazing from the outside. I'm not a part, nor will I ever be. (I'm an entrepreneur in the software space, but I'm not a technical founder and have no plans to pick up any books on code, which means I'm out of the running immediately...and understandably.) However, also from the outside, it seems like YC is creating entrepreneurs that experience their first business startup in a dreamworld that doesn't exist…
FallbackPlan == getARegularJob();