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Re:The House Y Combinator Should Have Built by barrkel on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @09:43PM (#3650698)
When people are having to move to the Bay Area just to be in YC, finding a place to stay etc. is distracting, not to mention stressful.

I think framing matters. If it's presented as "when you take my money, you must live on my land, be overseen by me" etc., it's almost feudal, and of course no-one with free choice would choose that kind of environment. But if it's "if you want to be mentored by me, I can host you for a short while along with a bunch of other ambitious folks", it seems different.

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Re:The House Y Combinator Should Have Built by davidw on Thursday March 01, 2012 @04:11AM (#3651467)
> When people are having to move to the Bay Area just to be in YC, finding a place to stay etc. is distracting, not to mention stressful.

Sounds like the thing to do would be to eliminate that friction by helping people quickly and easily locate places of their own, then.

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