OK, maybe I'm biased against Europeans, I don't know the landscape, etc. etc. But just compare and contrast their web page with YC's. YC's is succinct, to the p

OK, maybe I'm biased against Europeans, I don't know the landscape, etc. etc. But just compare and contrast their web page with YC's. YC's is succinct, to the point and no-nonsense. It carries the air of someone who doesn't have to prove anything. A look at this website, though turns you off, with the wannabe photos and titles like X Geek. And trying to get 27% by pushing around the tired notion of "Europe is different" in this age and time, where bootstrapping is so common and many incubators like YC are multinational? That's insane. Wasn't there a post from a YC applicant from Greece on HN just a couple of days ago? I'm originally from Europe and looking at examples like this makes me really pessimistic. Instead of hiding behind "it's different" excuses, the founders should have made "We're gonna be 10x better than YC" their motto. And one last thing: Just as all free Google services funnel users to their search where they make money, YC has HN as the breeding ground of ideas and startups. Everybody knows that this is what makes YC so successful. You probably should try to start a similar environment.