"your first month will be spent mostly in meetings rather than intensely focused on building your actual product. That's almost certainly not the case with YC."
I can definitely confirm that.
I can definitely confirm that.
I can't remember who said it, but I read somewhere that "the goal of every startup should be to stop being a startup" (the moral was that a startup is a fledgling business, and you should be trying to mature that business rather than staying in the beginning stages forever). If you're more interested in meeting people and talking about startups than you are in actually working on your startup, something is probably wrong. Not that this is a bad thing, but you should reevaluate whether being a startup founder is right for you.