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I'll post here, what I posted there: But the idea that you can put something out there on the cheap, get traction and become profitable is very much alive. Yo
by fallentimes 18y ago
I'll post here, what I posted there:
But the idea that you can put something out there on the cheap, get traction and become profitable is very much alive.
You can run a startup for two years for less than the cost of grad school. If anything, the YC model is more alive than ever. The labels should be worrying, not the talent.
- olefoo 18y agoYour comment has me attempting to map web companies to rock bands. I got as far as: Google = Beatles Myspace = Monsters of Metal 37Signals = Led Zeppelin #silly I know.
- fallentimes 18y agoHaha that's great though I think some beers would help your cause. You'd probably find this article interesting: http://www.negativland.com/albini.html http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
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- vlad 18y agoI've been reading PG's stuff since way before YCombinator existed, and that was my initial analysis of YCombinator. First of all, my belief was that PG graduated from five different colleges around the world because he liked being around smart young people, and to continue to be in a college-like atmosphere of optimistic young people without going to school in the U.S. and Europe for yet another degree, he started YCombinator, where he convinces smart young people to come to him, which is a much more efficient way of being around smart young people. Another way I've thought about it was that PG was like a manager of boy bands of 2-4 young people, who try to entertain fellow college men instead of young girls (and later on, the general population, once their "act"/app caught on). These bands couldn't always sing, but they used technology to help them get a marketable product out, similar to how startups make up for their inexperience by using frameworks and web services to make their product improve, so they could continue to release "new records" regularly. Over time, I've found that both the number of startups YCombinator has launched and the addition of the jobs page to news.ycombinator has shown that PG is actually not like a manager of boy bands, because the companies hire their own people and PG does not micromanage every decision, from what I understand. Also, I've noticed that media articles now describe these companies as their own beings, without always mentioning that these companies are part of YCombinator, something that is different from when YCombinator first started.
- zhyder 18y agoAgree with your conclusion tho not with your argument. Grad school is free (and "profitable" with stipends) if you get fellow/TA/RAships.
- fallentimes 18y agoSome grad school is. But yeah I couldn't get those.
- zhyder 18y agoI'd guess on average grad school funding (in EE/CS) is still easier to get than making money from a startup. How hard did you really try?
- fallentimes 18y agoIt would have been an MBA or med school, which don't traditionally offer the programs you mentioned.
- zhyder 18y agoAnd the MBA/med schools are also more expensive
- coliveira 18y agoI agree that is cheap to fund grad school. I lived for 4 years with about $15k/year. But it is not fun to make this amount of money.