I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator

Re:I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA by zcdziura on Friday October 09, 2015 @12:47PM (#10361388)

Especially in Boston. Boston has a TON of startups in the area.

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Re:I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA by wnissen on Friday October 09, 2015 @01:11PM (#10361615)

This was 2007, but Paul Graham describes Boston VCs as being slow to act, so they stopped doing Demo Day out there.

http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html

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Re:I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA by JayNeely on Friday October 09, 2015 @06:49PM (#10363705)

TechStars hasn't had a problem. Boston cohorts have raised ~$400 million in VC so far: http://www.techstars.com/companies/

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Re:I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA by ejdyksen on Friday October 09, 2015 @01:50PM (#10361989)

YC used to be in Boston for half of the year:

http://old.ycombinator.com/ycca.html

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Re:I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA by cryoshon on Friday October 09, 2015 @02:20PM (#10362249)

True, but from what I know, it's much more of an old-boys network rather than any kind of stranger to stranger demo based conversion. People trying to make it that way tend to flop here, as there aren't many venues.

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