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Re: YC NYC, September 26

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Post by dhruvboruah »

dmitri1981 wrote: post #40

Quick question for PG. Would you be interested in running a similar event in London? We've been organising an HN meetup for over a year and currently have a community of over 1100 people that would love to attend an event like this. There are also several YC companies including Songkick that have been involved in the meetup that I am certain would be interested in helping out.

Yes, we have a thriving start up community in here, everyone is excited about YC spirit !!! We need u guys to be here in London !!

Re: YC NYC, September 26

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Post by alain94040 »

pg wrote: post #41
dmitri1981 wrote: post #40

Quick question for PG. Would you be interested in running a similar event in London? We've been organising an HN meetup for over a year and currently have a community of over 1100 people that would love to attend an event like this. There are also several YC companies including Songkick that have been involved in the meetup that I am certain would be interested in helping out.

Possibly. If we had an event in Europe, it would probably be in London.

What about Paris? I'm hearing from neutral sources (not me, I'm biased) that Paris is ahead of London in terms of startups. I actually was surprised to hear that.

I understand that the language barrier can be stressful for Americans. London is therefore the default choice.

Re: YC NYC, September 26

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Post by weebro »

pg wrote: post #41
dmitri1981 wrote: post #40

Quick question for PG. Would you be interested in running a similar event in London? We've been organising an HN meetup for over a year and currently have a community of over 1100 people that would love to attend an event like this. There are also several YC companies including Songkick that have been involved in the meetup that I am certain would be interested in helping out.

Possibly. If we had an event in Europe, it would probably be in London.

If you could find the time to appear at that event, it may be more productive it coincide with the Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford event held in November, or FOWA London on 3-5th Oct, both of which you have presented at in the past.

Re: YC NYC, September 26

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Post by bernieklein »

pg wrote: post #41
dmitri1981 wrote: post #40

Quick question for PG. Would you be interested in running a similar event in London? We've been organising an HN meetup for over a year and currently have a community of over 1100 people that would love to attend an event like this. There are also several YC companies including Songkick that have been involved in the meetup that I am certain would be interested in helping out.

Possibly. If we had an event in Europe, it would probably be in London.

Another vote for London!

Re: YC NYC, September 26

#55

Post by benhoyt »

pg wrote: post #44
danest wrote: post #2

Curious on how many spots are going to be available and are any spots reserved for students?

We planned for 500 but we may have to increase that. None are reserved for any specific group, but we like students.

Sounds really interesting. I'm curious: how useful is the event likely to be if I already work at a (larger) startup? Is it mainly targeted at those who want to found new startups?

Re: YC NYC, September 26

#56

Post by magitam »

dmitri1981 wrote: post #40

Quick question for PG. Would you be interested in running a similar event in London? We've been organising an HN meetup for over a year and currently have a community of over 1100 people that would love to attend an event like this. There are also several YC companies including Songkick that have been involved in the meetup that I am certain would be interested in helping out.

+1 for having an event in London

Re: YC NYC, September 26

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Post by sim0n »

pg wrote: post #41
dmitri1981 wrote: post #40

Quick question for PG. Would you be interested in running a similar event in London? We've been organising an HN meetup for over a year and currently have a community of over 1100 people that would love to attend an event like this. There are also several YC companies including Songkick that have been involved in the meetup that I am certain would be interested in helping out.

Possibly. If we had an event in Europe, it would probably be in London.

I know that I (and most, if not all of my startup friends back in the UK) would have definitely attended a YC event in London.

Re: YC NYC, September 26

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Post by ktrgardiner »

pg wrote: post #44
danest wrote: post #2

Curious on how many spots are going to be available and are any spots reserved for students?

We planned for 500 but we may have to increase that. None are reserved for any specific group, but we like students.

I like the sound of that. And here I was thinking that being a student would be a disadvantage.

Re: YC NYC, September 26

#59

Post by nicholasjbs »

kristiandupont wrote: post #32
nicholasjbs wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Could you elaborate a bit on what you learned or realized? Was it simply a different vibe or were there more tangible differences that the rest of the world could learn from?

Two things immediately come to mind, one specific and one a bit vague.

Specific: YC gave us an unbelievable network of founders, hackers and investors in the Valley, and that stayed with us even after we moved back to New York. There's absolutely no way we'd have as strong a west coast (or even east coast) network if we hadn't done YC.

Vague: Valley culture. YC is in many ways at the center of the Valley and embodies the best it has to offer. I don't know how to explain it, but there's definitely a different culture at YC and in the Valley in general than in New York or anywhere else I've been.

It's hard to quantify or describe concisely, because it's really the sum total of people's attitudes, and the conversations you overhear on the street, and the density of people who have built or are building startups, and a thousand other things.

The only analogy I can think of is traveling to another country. For instance, when I traveled to Europe, it felt extraordinarily different from the US, and the differences weren't always easy to pintpoint.

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