Well, you can win a little more than $5k. http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/12/nyc-big-apps-version-20.html#comment-117114379 http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/12/nyc-bi

Well, you can win a little more than $5k. http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/12/nyc-big-apps-version-20.html#comment-117114379 http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/12/nyc-big-apps-version-20.html... "One of the winners [of last year challenge] was a team of 6 who quit their jobs on Wall Street, are in dozens of cities, received millions in VC investment (at a multi-million dollar valuation), are profitable, and recently rang the closing bell on NASDAQ." I think BigApps compares a little bit with the Google summer of code where you get pay to make something cool and if it's cool enough it turns into a job/business. The YC model idea sounds interesting, though.