continues in the fine tradition of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=975624 (http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2009/12/analyzing-y-combinator...)

i am not trying to turn YC into a cult, but i do think it's helpful to see how hundreds of founders and their situations turned out. there are some real characters buried in there.

That's why I am building YC Universe ( http://ycuniverse.com/ ).

The idea is to figure out many of the useful details of the YCombinator "black box". The plan is also to use YCombinator start-ups to get information to debug the start-up experience.