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We Lose A TechCruncher To Y Combinator
- Coax 16y agoThe Arrington/Calcanis relationship is impossible to decipher. But I guess I shouldn't care.
- kevinpet 16y agoIf a car cut Arrington off on the freeway, I get the feeling we'd have a story about how they have lots of freeways in Los Angeles, and Calacanis probably drives like a jerk.
- ojbyrne 16y agoNot really. They both have money, hence they put up with each other's idiosyncrasies (and stupidities). They bitch and moan loudly in public about those same idiosyncrasies, but they never, ever talk about people without money. That's the entire community in a nutshell.
- ericz 16y agoUntil he said otherwise, I actually believed that Arrington was pissed about the resignation.
- ergo98 16y agoIsn't he a little old to be scrounging for the YC chump change?
- derwiki 16y agoI've never thought of the money as the major selling point of YC.
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- bkbleikamp 16y agoYC isn't about money, it's about the relationships and the network of YC alumni and the prominent angels and VCs who show up at demo day.
- yurisagalov 16y agoTo be honest, I think it's pretty short sighted to think that attending YC equates "scrounging for the YC chump change". This comes up every so often, and I think it's been essentially agreed upon that very few (if any) people attend YC for the money. They do it for the alumni/connections/mentoring/advice network.
- staunch 16y agoThey lost a TechCruncher to entrepreneurship, not Y Combinator.
- houseabsolute 16y agoErm. Can it not be both?
- pavs 16y agoNo. One is sensationalist link-bait, other is a fact.
- aberman 16y agowait, which one is which?
- jlcgull 16y agobut i've always thought "y combinator is entrepreneurship"... (yelled as in "soylent green ...")
- moolave 16y agoHe could have reiterated entrepreneurship within the article, but we get the point.
- pavs 16y agoFact: They are losing a TC-er, Sensationalist link-bait: They are losing him to Y Combinator. Generally speaking, HN patience towards everything BS that comes from TC is very appalling.
- alain94040 16y agoTechnically, using the word "entrepreneurship" in the headline would have been less precise and convey less information. So I must agree with the editor's choice to say YCombinator. And yes, it makes for a more catchy headline too ;-)
- mixmax 16y agoThis clearly shows the value of Y combinator. Dan Levine gets techcrunched before he even has a company.
- jarin 16y ago"Jason Calacanis congrats Dan! call me when you do your angel round.... and if you ever need a story on TechCrunch you know where to send the MacBook Air!" RACK 'EM!
- ojbyrne 16y agoHilarious. And HN-appropriate.
- BenS 16y agoCongrats to Daniel and Dave! I'm biased b/c I know these guys, but I'm excited about their startup. And hats off to Dan b/c it's never easy to leave a salaried, full-time gig for the ground floor of a startup.
- iworkforthem 16y agoReally need more people to step up and decide to make a difference in their startup. Good work, Dan! Can't wait to see what do you have in store for us! Got to love J's email response. Nicely done to say the least. Haha.
- newy 16y agoCongrats again to Dan + David. We're excited about their product - a real game changer.
- daniel_levine 16y agoThanks everyone for the kind words. Just got back from dinner in the city to find myself at the top of HN for leaving a great company. Hopefully one day soon it'll be for successfully building a great one of my own. Thanks again.