One idea for a non-tech field where it might work: film! All the prerequisites are there: 1. Loads of young people with good ideas but needing funding, advice

One idea for a non-tech field where it might work: film! All the prerequisites are there: 1. Loads of young people with good ideas but needing funding, advice and connections 2. $20,000 is enough to make a worthwhile full-length film nowadays (have you seen Primer? It cost $7,000.) 3. A successful yet cheap film can easily make back many, many times its production cost. 4. A single well-connected individual (the pg of film) could provide enough connections to give the films the maximum chance of being shown at festivals etc and eventually picked up for distribution. Alternatively, even the ones that weren't picked up for distribution could be marketed on DVD, and the fact that they were made as part of the "YC-of-film" program would attract at least some interest for them. Foreseeable problems: the existing studios and unions might have a problem with it. I'm not sure exactly what they would do about it, though. Conclusion: If I were a bored, well-connected Hollywood guy with money to throw around I'd be totally doing this right now.