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Y Combinator / Seed Accelerator Dissertation Survey
- jedc 17y agoThanks to everyone in advance. I'll be publishing the paper online in early September, and this data will be really useful.
- timr 17y agoYou should make it clearer in the title and the form that you're not associated with YC or any other seed funding group.
- jedc 17y agoGood point; I just edited the form. I don't think I can change the title here on HN, though.
- adrianwaj 17y agoJust for the record, YC-like programs mentioned: TechStars, SeedCamp, LaunchBox, DreamIT, SeedRocket, AlphaLab, BootupLabs, Shotput Ventures, Capital Factory, NextStart
- anurag 17y agopg said in an interview that there is no generic name for YC-like programs, and he likes it that way because whenever a new program copies them it is introduced as 'another YC-style firm'. 'Seed Accelerator' sounds interesting. I wonder if it will stick.
- timr 17y agoIsn't that "fertilizer"?
- jdrock 17y agoI don't know how much you've distributed this, but it seems like your data will be biased toward companies interested in these programs. There are several (I'm guessing most) companies that don't go to "seed accelerators" for seed money.
- jedc 17y agoThat's fair, but my goal is to develop a framework for thinking about new and different programs. (Partly so that people stop blindly copying YC.) The companies that are interested in these programs today are likely to be the same audience for any YC / seed accelerator program that will be created in the future, so the data should be relevant.