Re:YC Open Office Hours
by matheweis on Thursday December 10, 2015 @05:21PM
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Startup Weekend regularly hands out $100 AWS credits to all attendees. I don't think I've ever seen anyone (or groups of people) go to SW just for that credit. $5000 is a bit more, but that -that- much more.
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I think there's a huge gap between getting $100 for a weekend and getting $5000 for 20 minutes.
You [usually?] get the credits for showing up for about an hour or two on the very first night. No need to be there for the entire weekend if that's what you're there for.
The relative value of 20 minutes with YC partners is significantly higher, so as to make the incentive of the $5000 irrelevant. Anyone who thinks otherwise is missing the real value proposition of the office hours program.
As to OP's concern that it could create incentive for someone to waste the YC partner's time in the sole interest of gaining the $5000 of credits, I think that is not giving enough credit to the YC folks. I'm sure they'll be able to weed them out.
Re:YC Open Office Hours
by personjerry on Thursday December 10, 2015 @05:25PM
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I'd argue that a 50x increase (literally 5000%) is significantly more.