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They copied everything about YC as it originally existed down to the application form. If that doesn't count as a clone nothing does. TechStars has only recent
by staunch 15y ago
They copied everything about YC as it originally existed down to the application form. If that doesn't count as a clone nothing does.
TechStars has only recently started trying to replicate their model on a wide scale. They're very far from proving that they can.
The fact that TS would be just as good without the founder isn't necessarily a positive sign.
- davidw 15y ago> The fact that TS would be just as good without the founder isn't necessarily a positive sign. If they have 'productized' the process so that they get, rather than one charismatic, super smart guy like PG, a series of founder types who go in and talk and mentor their startups, perhaps it can be made to "scale" to some degree, rather than be a program based exclusively on the brilliance of one individual. Although, to be fair, YC seems to be taking on new people as well.