We Lose A TechCruncher To Y Combinator

Hilarious. And HN-appropriate.

That's awesome, I actually didn't know you were at TechCrunch before!

Hi Dan please tell us a bit more about what it is like to work for TC. Is Mike a good boss? ;-)

If a car cut Arrington off on the freeway, I get the feeling we'd have a story about how they have lots of freeways in Los Angeles, and Calacanis probably drives like a jerk.

Not really. They both have money, hence they put up with each other's idiosyncrasies (and stupidities). They bitch and moan loudly in public about those same idiosyncrasies, but they never, ever talk about people without money. That's the entire community in a nutshell.

Erm. Can it not be both?

Technically, using the word "entrepreneurship" in the headline would have been less precise and convey less information. So I must agree with the editor's choice to say YCombinator.

And yes, it makes for a more catchy headline too ;-)

Or perhaps the value of working for TechCrunch.

I've never thought of the money as the major selling point of YC.

YC isn't about money, it's about the relationships and the network of YC alumni and the prominent angels and VCs who show up at demo day.

To be honest, I think it's pretty short sighted to think that attending YC equates "scrounging for the YC chump change". This comes up every so often, and I think it's been essentially agreed upon that very few (if any) people attend YC for the money. They do it for the alumni/connections/mentoring/advice network.