Our experience moving to SF to do YC

Thanks - it's really nice to see the community sharing it!

To your point on "in a few seconds"... We're currently trying to build out more libraries as fast as we can so people working on apps in lots of languages can easily integrate it - we've done Python, Ruby, NodeJS, JS, Go and PHP, and an API for the rest. Feature requests for new libraries as issues in the repo (https://github.com/posthog/posthog) very welcome.

I see the pricing is per day. Have you thought of hourly pricing ?

It's really tough - we had to get professional advice.

YC connected us with an immigration attorney the moment we got accepted and he helped greatly to make sure we approached this in the right way. It would have been a maze to do this without him. It's still not easy and it's a lot of extra stress.

Certain countries like the UK have ESTAs for up to 90 days, but the program is 3 months + then you generally will want to be here to raise afterwards, so you should get some advice on how to do this specific to your home country.

Even the VISAs are painful - for example, an O1 (even if you do manage to get it) means IIRC your spouse can't work even if you can.

Thanks :) I actually find this a really interesting topic. This approach can have some merit - ie it leads to you not overspending and running out of money if you are reliant on new business targets being hit. However, the ideal situation is that your CFO manages the spending conservatively whilst the VP Sales goes out and pushes things as far as they can. There are some morale issues too with giving very high targets when you are a managing a team who are judged against those - for fast growth, you want to give people a sense of accomplishment (so constantly undershooting huge targets is a quick way to prevent that) but also for them to push the boundary of what is possible.

London.

They do mention London down in the article, but I already knew UK because of the spelling of sceptical and the use of "hired" where Americans would say "rented."

Nice to see an article where they aren't slamming on my city, btw. :) Although I question the "rarely windy" comment.

Hence this handy guide! It turns out you can get down not via the road... although it doesn't appear on Google Maps.

Why not walking?

I assumed you meant because it's a strenuous walk until I saw "in the dark". Why?

W18 founder checking in: we did group office hours and loved them!

There's a mix, so you can request 1:1 office hours whenever you want to speak to a particular partner. The onus is on you to drive the agenda in these. We tend to use them to talk through what we're doing next. ie after our HN launch we wanted to discuss "we have some momentum, what should we do next". Basically, whenever we've too many ideas and need help being more focussed.

The group ones are a once every two weeks thing. The reason they're cool is that you hear about others raising issues you wouldn't have thought to raise yourself.

Yes, many writing coaches counsel writers to explain terms of art that might be unfamiliar to random readers. Granting that you're new here, one assumes that someone commenting is familiar with YC, but that might be a flawed assumption.

Good point! Updated it :)

Hint: look at the url of this page. :)

Do you er... know where you posted this comment?

> so I stopped reading

dirtydroog, if you want to be an entrepreneur, you need a lot more persistence than that. Not only is "YC" well-known, and the operator of this site, but it's the first result in google when you search for "YC" or "what is YC".

Not trying to insult you, but you need to raise your game several levels.

The whole "stopped reading" meme needs to die. Generally it indicates a problem with the reader, not the author.