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While I read the book and love TechStars I think for me coming from Australia and our particular situation it doesn't make a load of sense. We either really nee

by robryan 16y ago

While I read the book and love TechStars I think for me coming from Australia and our particular situation it doesn't make a load of sense. We either really need the StartFund money or the big push YCombinator give to make it worth the relocation, personally I'd apply to tech stars but for my cofounder I think the risk vs rewards isn't worth the relocation. Don't know how many others applying from overseas would have the same issues. In Australia we recently got a seed fund, "StartMate", although it being in Sydney and us in Melbourne it may as well be SanFrancisco.

rexreed 16y ago
Excellent insight. It seems that YCombinator is really in a league unto itself. For incubators/accelerators, the choice is really two buckets: YCombinator and all the mojo it gives you on the one hand, and all the other incubators on the other, which offer relatively similar value propositions to each other. It's interesting how this dynamic has worked out -- much like in most industries, the distance between the top player and maybe #2 and the rest of the field is significant.