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YC NYC, September 26
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#22I beg to differ on the amount NYC has to offer compared to Wash DC. I personally believe there are more start up ready folks in and around the district compared to NYC... I say you look into DC.
DC is seeing an explosion and it's great! I know of 3 co-working spaces that popped up recently. Also if you're in DC come to the meetups advertised via Startup Digest DC. There was also a group for DC Hacker News readers altho there hasn't been much movement in that there are lots of cool things going. One thing I'd love to see is an incubator program in DC proper. I know there is one that is run as a partnership with UMC CP but I've looked (and looked) and cannot find anything in DC. If anybody knows of one I'd love to check it out.
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#23Huh. Surprised how tiny the Wikipedia article about Y Combinator is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator I wanted to read about and see the date of a talk pg gave at Harvard before Y Combinator's first batch (not Startup School 2005; I went to that so I know a little about it). Anyone have details? Curious.
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#24Anyone else from Montreal planning to go ?
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#25I beg to differ on the amount NYC has to offer compared to Wash DC. I personally believe there are more start up ready folks in and around the district compared to NYC... I say you look into DC.
http://www.hipmunk.com/#!dc_NYC,Sep25
Also look at the Acela. Great high speed service between DC and NYC. Faster and sometimes cheaper than flying.
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#26Huh. Surprised how tiny the Wikipedia article about Y Combinator is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator I wanted to read about and see the date of a talk pg gave at Harvard before Y Combinator's first batch (not Startup School 2005; I went to that so I know a little about it). Anyone have details? Curious.
I believe you are referring to "How to start a startup" http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html derived from a talk to the Harvard Computer Society in March 2005
Thanks! That's the one. Only a few months after it, the first batch of YC started. I wonder if it will be similar for NYC. =)
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#27Huh. Surprised how tiny the Wikipedia article about Y Combinator is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator I wanted to read about and see the date of a talk pg gave at Harvard before Y Combinator's first batch (not Startup School 2005; I went to that so I know a little about it). Anyone have details? Curious.
http://lanyrd.com/2005/hcs-guest-lecture/skkr/
Awesome. This page is even better:
http://lanyrd.com/profile/paulg/past/speaking/
Much more useful than Wikipedia. For an influential speaker there ought to be a list of talks just like for a famous singer there's a list of singles.
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#28I'd like to go to this but can't (live outside of NYC but I'll be in IL at the time). From the description of the event I'd guess it won't really be suited for this, but is any part of it going to be recorded and/or streamed?
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#29Are you considering going back to the 2 city model where you have a YC batch on both coasts? It would seem to make sense in NYC, as the city has made great strides as an internet startup hub and probably significantly ahead of where Boston was when YC moved entirely to California. edit: PG's reasons for moving to California permanently (2.5 years ago) are described here: http://ycombinator.com/ycca.html - but as YC h…
We have no current plan to. Going to Silicon Valley for YC doesn't mean moving there permanently. (There are about a dozen YC funded startups in NYC.) And if ambitious people are willing to go to another city for several years for college or grad school, it doesn't seem like a big stretch for them to go to Silicon Valley for 3 months for YC. There's a long tradition of ambitious people travelling to the big center of…
My cofounder and I moved from NYC to the Valley to be part of the S2010 YC batch. The time we spent there was incredibly valuable and definitely worth it, even though we knew from the start our company would ultimately be based in NYC.
Doing YC in no way means you have to leave New York for good.
Re: YC NYC, September 26
#30Are you considering going back to the 2 city model where you have a YC batch on both coasts? It would seem to make sense in NYC, as the city has made great strides as an internet startup hub and probably significantly ahead of where Boston was when YC moved entirely to California. edit: PG's reasons for moving to California permanently (2.5 years ago) are described here: http://ycombinator.com/ycca.html - but as YC h…
We have no current plan to. Going to Silicon Valley for YC doesn't mean moving there permanently. (There are about a dozen YC funded startups in NYC.) And if ambitious people are willing to go to another city for several years for college or grad school, it doesn't seem like a big stretch for them to go to Silicon Valley for 3 months for YC. There's a long tradition of ambitious people travelling to the big center of…
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