Techstars is a YC-style program out of Boulder. Has anyone considered it? Why or why not?(techstars.org)
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Techstars is a YC-style program out of Boulder. Has anyone considered it? Why or why not?
http://www.techstars.org/
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I know very little about techstars, but it might be worth taking pg's advice, since "Bad Location" is #2 on the 18 Mistakes that Kill Startups:
http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
There's a reason YC is only Boston and Bay Area.
http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
There's a reason YC is only Boston and Bay Area.
However, in "How to be Silicon Valley" he singled Boulder as a place with most of the ingredients for being a startup hub even though it currently isn't. So there are probably worse places to be. Still at best a distant third, though.
I know a guy here in Italy who ran a startup from there, and did quite well by himself, to boot. Now he's set and he can come spend his time here hassling with Telecom Italia trying to get his DSL line working.
It seems like a decent program. The location threw me off though. I'm not interested in moving to Colorado anytime soon. But I'm pretty sure it's a decent place to start a business even though other locations such as Silicon Valley of Boston would be better.
It will be interesting to see which of these two programs produces more successful startups in the long run.
I've applied to it. Waiting to hear back. Has some pretty smart people behind it.
-Zaid
-Zaid
Plus, YC understands young hackers and the startup community like no other group of individuals I've ever come across. We're solely focused on applying to them as far as seed funding goes.