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Re:Y Combinator's Graham Says Startups Must Improve Lives by staunch on Friday June 17, 2011 @03:11PM (#2666698)
They copied everything about YC as it originally existed down to the application form. If that doesn't count as a clone nothing does.

TechStars has only recently started trying to replicate their model on a wide scale. They're very far from proving that they can.

The fact that TS would be just as good without the founder isn't necessarily a positive sign.

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Re:Y Combinator's Graham Says Startups Must Improve Lives by davidw on Saturday June 18, 2011 @05:08PM (#2669552)
> The fact that TS would be just as good without the founder isn't necessarily a positive sign.

If they have 'productized' the process so that they get, rather than one charismatic, super smart guy like PG, a series of founder types who go in and talk and mentor their startups, perhaps it can be made to "scale" to some degree, rather than be a program based exclusively on the brilliance of one individual.

Although, to be fair, YC seems to be taking on new people as well.

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