What I like about techstars - they don't pretend to be unique. Instead of going to some bizzare place like NY or whatever (they seem don't like SF) just to generate buzz they go to Boston, the most logical place for them to go to to attract more healthy attention. But people still generate buzz :)
TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incubator In Boston
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Re: TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incubator In Boston
#22I don't really believe that this is just a coincidence. If they were planning a second location they wouldn't have gone to Boston where there was YC. They would have tried to go some place w/o much competition, like New York. And if they were indeed planning to take YC on, why Boston and not Silicon Valley?
As someone else mentioned, both David Cohen and Brad Feld have a history in Boston, it's where they got their start (as it has been for many others thanks to MIT and Harvard). There was also a strong push for quite a while from the Boston and Cambridge entrepreneurial community.
Re: TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incubator In Boston
#23I'm in Chicago. Here the politicians sell the voids.
Re: TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incubator In Boston
#24We didn't leave a void when we left Boston, because we weren't filling one when we were there. No one seems to get this, but seed funding is not a regional business. Startups at that stage can move. Most of the startups we funded in our Boston cycles didn't come from Boston, and practically all left Boston afterward. We could have been anywhere. Anywhere with decent coffee at least. Honestly, they'd have done better…
So Jealous,
Why not come down to Sunny Florida. The Space Coast is an amazing place and their is a lot of innovation down here. Its also extremely warm.
Re: TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incubator In Boston
#25These people set a new record for me-too-ness every month.
Personally, having been in TechStars (founder of SocialThing), I think the programs are very different. Both have their merits, one is not necessarily better than the other, just different.
Why the TS vs. YC animosity? We're (startup founders) all in this game together. Of course there will be competition and such, but we're all at the same stage at one time or another, so why not help? Why not be happy that there are 10 more companies that will get funded than last year?
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#26I don't really believe that this is just a coincidence. If they were planning a second location they wouldn't have gone to Boston where there was YC. They would have tried to go some place w/o much competition, like New York. And if they were indeed planning to take YC on, why Boston and not Silicon Valley?
Is there any competition at all in NYC?
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#27These people set a new record for me-too-ness every month.
Call it me-too if you like, Matt, but there's some great stuff coming out of Techstars. I don't care where innovative companies come from - just that they get off the ground. Sorry to hear you're not into that.
That's just silly. I didn't say a word about any of the startups. Just the organization itself.
Re: TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incubator In Boston
#28These people set a new record for me-too-ness every month.
Personally, having been in TechStars (founder of SocialThing), I think the programs are very different. Both have their merits, one is not necessarily better than the other, just different. Why the TS vs. YC animosity? We're (startup founders) all in this game together. Of course there will be competition and such, but we're all at the same stage at one time or another, so why not help? Why not be happy that there ar…
I wouldn't say it's animosity. I just think they're sort of lame copycats. For fuck's sake man, they stole YC's application word for word. I think that gives lifetime exemptions to those of us calling them a me-too act.
Re: TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incubator In Boston
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, having been in TechStars (founder of SocialThing), I think the programs are very different. Both have their merits, one is not necessarily better than the other, just different. Why the TS vs. YC animosity? We're (startup founders) all in this game together. Of course there will be competition and such, but we're all at the same stage at one time or another, so why not help? Why not be happy that there ar…
I wouldn't say it's animosity. I just think they're sort of lame copycats. For fuck's sake man, they stole YC's application word for word. I think that gives lifetime exemptions to those of us calling them a me-too act.
Finance (funding IS finance, right?) in itself is rather uninventive. Would you prefer to learn different rules each time you get new CC?
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#30These people set a new record for me-too-ness every month.
Nothing matters less to me than mee-too-ness about startup programs. I'm desperate for 100 absolutely same programs to be available to me in absolutely same time in absolutely same places.
Be serious man, copying a application form cann't be seen as a brutal act of uncreative vandalism.