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I completely agree with garry comments ' 10 weeks is a Litmus test for commitment' . If one can't be away from home Town for 10 weeks, you are not prepared fo

by reddys 13y ago

I completely agree with garry comments ' 10 weeks is a Litmus test for commitment' . If one can't be away from home Town for 10 weeks, you are not prepared for 10x or 20x bigger tough situations Start-up is going to throw at you

mbreese 13y ago
It might work for 20 somethings just out of undergrad. But when you start looking at founders who are older and have families, you eliminate a lot of talent from the pool (including people with actual experience). It just isn't feasible for everyone.
- garry 13y ago
  Actually we have quite successful founders who move with their families to Mountain View — notably the two founders of Mongo HQ and their families shared a rented house there for the duration of the batch. They happened to stay in the Bay Area, but they could have just as easily went back home after raising their seed round too.
  - mindcrime 13y ago
    mbreese didn't say that it eliminates all such founders. I think the argument here is that some number of startup founders (where the exact number would be hard to pin down) are unable to move to San Francisco for 10 weeks due to other commitments, and that this factor is probably going to be more pronounced with older founders - who are more likely to have spouses, children, mortgages, and other entanglements that work against letting them move. The other argument, that I'll make, is that as nice as the Bay Area is, you don't have to be there to be successful. Assuming that all of the smart, talented, hard-working, $INSERT_SUPERLATIVE_HERE people in the world aren't already in the Bay Area, then if you accept the above premises, it stands to reason that a YC expansion to some other parts of the world could be very effective.
mindcrime 13y ago
That strikes me a bullshit, completely unfounded observation. How do you justify that, exactly?
mindcrime 13y ago
you are not prepared for 10x or 20x bigger tough situations Start-up is going to throw at you Such as?

by reddys 13y ago

mbreese 13y ago

It might work for 20 somethings just out of undergrad. But when you start looking at founders who are older and have families, you eliminate a lot of talent from the pool (including people with actual experience). It just isn't feasible for everyone.

garry 13y ago
Actually we have quite successful founders who move with their families to Mountain View — notably the two founders of Mongo HQ and their families shared a rented house there for the duration of the batch. They happened to stay in the Bay Area, but they could have just as easily went back home after raising their seed round too.
- mindcrime 13y ago
  mbreese didn't say that it eliminates all such founders. I think the argument here is that some number of startup founders (where the exact number would be hard to pin down) are unable to move to San Francisco for 10 weeks due to other commitments, and that this factor is probably going to be more pronounced with older founders - who are more likely to have spouses, children, mortgages, and other entanglements that work against letting them move. The other argument, that I'll make, is that as nice as the Bay Area is, you don't have to be there to be successful. Assuming that all of the smart, talented, hard-working, $INSERT_SUPERLATIVE_HERE people in the world aren't already in the Bay Area, then if you accept the above premises, it stands to reason that a YC expansion to some other parts of the world could be very effective.

mindcrime 13y ago

That strikes me a bullshit, completely unfounded observation. How do you justify that, exactly?

mindcrime 13y ago

you are not prepared for 10x or 20x bigger tough situations Start-up is going to throw at you Such as?