What Happens At Y Combinator

Re:What Happens At Y Combinator by cperciva on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @01:01AM (#1734627)

I wasn't so much thinking about the funding provided by YC; but rather that if you've reached a stage where you can raise enough funding to hire yourself into the US, the fact that YC provides connections to angels and VCs is probably not tremendously useful.

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Re:What Happens At Y Combinator by samstokes on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @05:50AM (#1735126)

I think you have the order of events wrong. The connections (and other value) YC provides help you get that funding which lets you hire yourself into the US.

As pbiggar points out above, there's no problem (at least for EU citizens) getting into the US for three months of YC - it's staying there long term that's hard.

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Re:What Happens At Y Combinator by pmjordan on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @04:10AM (#1734948)

I assume for visa waiver countries those 12 weeks can be done in a 3-month visa-free visit, with the purpose of "seeking investment" or so. Otherwise you'd have missed the cycle after going through the "annoying and long" process of getting a visa.

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