This article seems deliberately targeted at putting down a lot of the attributes of YC without being well-informed on them. Example: Now I've never been to

This article seems deliberately targeted at putting down a lot of the attributes of YC without being well-informed on them. Example: Now I've never been to a YC demo day, but it's my understanding that the whole event is a lot less formal and the pitches are basically cookie-cutter and done in a rapid-fire manner. The pitches are very much not cookie-cutter, and YC has ~4 different days throughout the summer where we're supposed to pitch each other and investors. PG tells us to reserve the couple of weeks before demo day to work on and practice our pitches. Have you read http://ycombinator.com/atyc.html http://ycombinator.com/atyc.html or spoken to any YC founders? We're usually very willing to discuss the program, and will share the good and the bad. There are always areas where any accelerator can be improved, YC included, but this article seems to have pointed out the differences between the two programs and assumed that they make YC a worse program. There's more than one way to skin a cat.