Why Combinator? Should You Join Paul Graham's Gang For The Gifted?

Re:Why Combinator? Should You Join Paul Graham's Gang For Th... by pg on Friday March 23, 2007 @03:23PM (#5970)

The "gifted" is a little misleading. We're pretty explicit that we think succeeding in a startup depends more on determination than intelligence. Oddly enough, though, "gang" is on the mark. One of the unexpected consequences of funding large batches of startups is that they form a fairly tough peer-to-peer mesh to help one another.

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Re:Why Combinator? Should You Join Paul Graham's Gang For Th... by danielha on Friday March 23, 2007 @04:19PM (#5981)

This is a huge advantage for small startups that I hope others are realizing. As programmers or hardware hackers, we can make something of value to other people but there might be difficulties in selling it to them (not even in the monetary sense, just adoption). The YC funded teams have become a network in itself to help you get some momentum and spread word of your new creation. And everyone uses everyone else's stuff. It's just cool.

I was visiting Crystal Towers yesterday and, well, YC really needs to just buy that whole complex.

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Re:Why Combinator? Should You Join Paul Graham's Gang For Th... by Alex3917 on Friday March 23, 2007 @09:24PM (#6037)

So, does the gang have a hand signal?

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Re:Why Combinator? Should You Join Paul Graham's Gang For Th... by pg on Sunday March 25, 2007 @08:16PM (#6209)

Probably the finger-wag:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/socialmoth/405509951

(Rtm started it.)

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Re:Why Combinator? Should You Join Paul Graham's Gang For Th... by vegai on Monday March 26, 2007 @03:48AM (#6316)

shudder

I just don't get people who use segway without trying to make a joke. Is walking so hard?

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Re:Why Combinator? Should You Join Paul Graham's Gang For Th... by extantproject on Tuesday March 27, 2007 @11:11AM (#6624)

Heh. I like it.

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