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How many Y Combinator startups have stayed in Cambridge or Bay Area?
- inklesspen 20y agoI'm interested in how many Y Combinator startups have stayed in the area where they were formed, or if they've moved "Back Home" or to other cities.
- pg 20y agoOverall the more successful startups are less likely to move "home." And among successful ones that did, in all but one case, home happened to be a startup hub. E.g. Iminlikewithyou went to NYC, TextPayMe to Seattle. The one exception so far is Wufoo, who moved back to Florida.
- inklesspen 20y agoThat's pretty much what I was expecting; thanks for the confirmation.
- SwellJoe 20y agoI have it on pretty good authority that at least two of the three Wufoos would prefer to move back to the valley. Our company is also staying in the valley for a while...though we'll eventually need a presence back in Austin (where I moved from for WFP07), because about half of the largest companies we want to sell to are in Texas.
- Leonidas 20y agoI think it may depend on the type of startup. If I was a "dating" related startup, I'd want to be in NYC. NYC is very huge on the "dating" scene. Heck, they have speed dating there where the guy has to make at least over half a million dollars a year and the girls have to be 'hot' to attend the speed dating session. Tickets cost $500 per person and the speed dating sessions are always sold out.
- Harj 20y agoauctomatic "moved" back to London in the sense that we're filing visa applications to get back out there asap. what's more interesting is the number of Cambridge startups that end up in SV (usually in the Crystal Towers building)
- Mistone 20y agowhere is the crystal towers building?
- RyanGWU82 20y agoIt's just an apartment building in San Francisco, but a freakish number of their units are rented by YC founders at this point. It feels more like a dormitory than an apartment building.
- Mistone 20y agosounds like a fun environment, rent is a little high even by SF standards, and especially for a pre-funding startup, but i guess if/after the angel and vc rounds come, it is not such a concern.
- brezina 20y agoMonth to month rent, furnished apts, utilities included, friends and help close by - founders have enough things to think about when running a company that they are willing to pay a premium for convenience. I am.
- lurker 20y agowhat about Inkling? they're in chicago, which is a decidedly lesser startup hub.
- pg 20y agoYeah, true; ok, Wufoo and Inkling.
- mattculbreth 20y agoAll I know is that the day after Startup School my cofounders and I starting scoping out places online to help with the move. :)
- e1ven 20y ago