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I mean I fully agree that startups must and should improve lives to be viable. But then how are you in the same interview going to plug a website called "Hipmunk" that basically just displays flight info in a different way that to me doesn't really seem any more intuitive than Kayak?
Flight search has been done. A billion times. Unless you are coming with some interesting new business model, you are just shuffling around existing information and wasting a lot of time and money. You aren't really improving anybody's lives or solving a real problem. Why not try to build something that really helps people do something they can't do now?
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Not really. TechStars is a franchise model, Cohen built a replicable model for seed accelerators while YC is largely driven by Paul Graham personally. You could remove Cohen from TechStars and TechStars would be the same, you couldn't remove PG from YC without changing it's nature substantially. TechStars was obviously derived from YC, but it's no more a clone than McDonalds was a clone of existing Burger bars.
They copied everything about YC as it originally existed down to the application form. If that doesn't count as a clone nothing does. TechStars has only recently started trying to replicate their model on a wide scale. They're very far from proving that they can. The fact that TS would be just as good without the founder isn't necessarily a positive sign.
If they have 'productized' the process so that they get, rather than one charismatic, super smart guy like PG, a series of founder types who go in and talk and mentor their startups, perhaps it can be made to "scale" to some degree, rather than be a program based exclusively on the brilliance of one individual.
Although, to be fair, YC seems to be taking on new people as well.
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I felt he deliberately did not go into this topic. He was asked "How do you pick ~60 out of ~2000 applications?", and his entire response could be paraphrased as "We have practice". It made me wonder if it was because he thought it was too complex a topic for a quick TV show.
I wrote about how I read applications here: http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801739
Does anyone have a mirror?
Never seen PG talk before, figured he'd be another west-coast asshole, but he seems super down to earth!! Think I might apply to YC now..
FYI: If you think everyone on the west coast is an asshole you'll probably not be very productive living here and doing YC.
Paul doesn't seem that way at all in this video, however, in fact he seems incredibly down to earth. I found this surprising and refreshing, and it makes me think that I have a misconception about the scene out there, and that I would like to experience it now to decide for myself.
I liked this interview, but I found myself siding with the dude at the computer more than anybody. I mean I fully agree that startups must and should improve lives to be viable. But then how are you in the same interview going to plug a website called "Hipmunk" that basically just displays flight info in a different way that to me doesn't really seem any more intuitive than Kayak? Flight search has been done. A billi…
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I wrote about how I read applications here: http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801739
Semi-related: The YC application for Dropbox from the link above seems to have been taken down. Does anyone have a mirror?