YC Fall 2015 College Tour | Hacker News Reader

YC Fall 2015 College Tour

blog.ycombinator.com

102 pointskatm48 comments

It would be really cool if YC came by UMD (University of Maryland). There is a start-up shell where a whole bunch of companies work out of, some of which has raised money and some not quite yet but it's a cool spot for start-ups nonetheless.

At Maryland, both the Hinman CEOs [1] and QUEST Honors [2] programs would provide great reciprocal value for YC.

[1] http://www.hinmanceos.umd.edu/

[2] http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/programs/undergraduate-programs/a...

Alumni of UMD founded Google, Oculus, Under Armour and many other companies.

Squarespace also IIRC.

Clicking through to one of them (http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/4922?eventId=32998738&ca...) says:

"In July 2015, Y Combinator introduced YC Fellowship Program to make an investment of $12,000 into 1000 startups every year. The first batch of YC Fellowship includes 32 companies, which received an equity-free grant instead of an investment."

Does that mean there will be 968 more fellowships given over the next ten months?

I think that 1000 figure comes from a statement they made along the lines of "one day we could be funding 1000 companies through this Fellowship program". I don't think they had a figure in mind for this batch.

I was thinking it might be through scaling up the next batch.

Thanks for catching. I asked UIUC to make an edit on that. The first batch of YCF is starting up this week -- and we're not making decisions about the future of the program till we see how this pilot goes.

Awesome, wish I was back in college!

Note to YC: Why don't you set up an official YC Startup University? You're effectively doing it now with all the talks, tours, etc.

Excited for Startup@Brown!

http://startupatbrown.org

I'd love to see this at Georgia Tech in the future.

We're planning to visit Georgia Tech this winter.

Any plans to visit NY? RIT or RPI would be good candidates.

Or Cornell!

This is great to hear -- looking forward to it!

Yes! I am so excited!

And Morehouse on the same visit.

Any chance that you'll be coming to San Jose State University? We're not so far away from you.

I'll come, who can we coordinate with?

Honestly I'm not too sure. There is an Entrepreneurial club, but I wouldn't say any particular organization is out there for this kind of thing. Do you have an email I can reach you at? Maybe I can connect you with someone from the Computer Science club at the very least.

Please send me an email at kevin.hou@sjsu.edu I can assist you in the coordination of the event.

A bit disappointed that YC isn't visiting Penn seeing as 3 of the startups from the most recent summer batch were by Penn students.

Also agree that YC should consider a trip to Philly / Penn. There are a lot of students in the area that would flock to any talks or office hours

How about a stop in Ottawa, Canada? Two big universities (Carleton and Ottawa U), and a pretty big tech community here.

Waterloo is well within train commute distance of Ottawa -- consider applying to Hack the North next year!

Yes, I 100% agree you should come to Ottawa!

Would love for you guys to come to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. We're only a 3 hour drive away and we have a huge entrepreneurship mindset on campus - we have an on campus incubator as well as a whole Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, plus a pretty good CS program :)

Can YC set anything up at UCLA? We're really starting to have a very vibrant start-up community. Travis Kalanick (Uber CEO) is actually paying us a visit and is sitting down with students and alumni in a couple of weeks!

I'd be more than willing to help out or volunteer.

Shoot me a note at kat at ycombinator. We'll be visiting more schools later this fall and this winter. We went to UCLA last year with Alexis Ohanian's bus tour and we'd be happy to visit again.

Sent!

Hi! As a student I am really happy you'll be touring universities to inspire hackers about making great things :)

Unfortunately I'm too far away from any of them to personally enjoy this opportunity.

Do you plan any visit to European Universities in the near future?

I would really love YC to come to Utah. We're building a dorm specifically made as a 24/7 living / co-working space providing all the resources for students to start businesses.

It seems like the west coast isn't getting much love. I understand staying out of the Bay Area, but UW, UCSD etc. seem like they would be good places to visit.

Why not make a stop at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology? It's not far from Urbana-Champaign if the Y Combinator folks have a presenter to send.

Would y'all consider coming to George Mason University? We're actively trying to build a entrepreneurial start-up culture here.

Anyone else heading to the Ann Arbor event?

Hey katm, are you still planning to do Startup School this fall too? Or does this replace that?

We are not doing Startup School this fall. This doesn't replace Startup School - but we decided to focus on things like this, YCF, and open office hours this fall. Startup School will be back next year.

Any plans for Cal Poly?

Are you planning something like a college world tour soon?

huge startup community at Indiana University:Bloomington that would love this opportunity.

No stanford?

No MIT?

We visited MIT this past spring and plan to visit again soon -- just not this fall. We are doing office hours in Boston, which you're welcome to sign up for: https://ycombinatorevents.wufoo.com/forms/y-combinator-offic...

Didn't they already go there? They haven't been to my university yet.

Too bad I'm located in Germany.

No Stanford?

And Western Canada gets shafted again, nice.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com