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Moving back to SF and doing Y Combinator again

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I gotta say: the Woody Allen thing is more annoying than cool. One of the advantages of living elsewhere is that when you've got Geek Stuff you want to do, you never have to make advance plans.

The Bay Area is like Bizarro Universe when it comes to nerd culture.

Given that you're from the Great White North, what sort of immigration hoops did you have to jump through? Are you on a TN Visa, are you only down there visiting and you'll move back to Canada to work on the startup full-time, or something else?

i believe kulveer's originally from the uk, but moved to canada following live current media's acquisition of auctomatic.

Congrats Kul

thanks Immad!

Great. Your blog is definitely useful in understanding the different types of stickers and which scenarios they map to. All I need now is a Nexus S.

Goodluck.

wow great to see another mallu on YC!

HA!

I thought I would never ...especially on YC!

Holler at me, will ya? cherian.abraham@googlemail

I don't mean to flame or rip on Kul, but why are they letting grads of the program--with successful exits under their belts!--go through YC again? Aren't there enough awesome teams out there that need this program a first time?

YC is not a need based program. That kind of thinking is good for charity, not capitalism.

Return on investment: investing in a known quantity is lower risk.

Also, if you're doing it all over again after a respectable exit, you're more likely to keep going for the really big prize. Which is what investors are after.

It's not like you graduate with a degree, and doing it again is redundant. It's a focussed networking and product development session where you get some much-needed advance from people in the know as you develop your company. Funding alumni is a no-brainer; it's a much safer investment.

I'm more curious about why grads are redoing the program...I understand the stick with what works mentality but Y-comb alumni should already have the ears of investors. You don't need yc to focus on product. As I'm writing this I guess the exception might be if your customers are heavily technical, like the heroku for NFC.

Here's a clue on the taxi situation. SF is 7 miles x 7 miles (and the bulk of this is Richmond or Sunset where you'll rarely go). Walk. Ride a bike. Take the Muni or BART. Problem solved.

Have you tried walking from the Marina to the Mission, late at night, wearing leather loafers? It kinda sucks.

And MUNI isn't public transport, it's just a homeless shelter with wheels.

Don't go to the Marina and you won't have that problem.

But the Marina is the best part of San Francisco!

Actually I've done that many times. Great exercise.

How is the entry-interview different if you're an alumni? Do they even interview you or do you get auto-approved for the program?

What are the advantages of NFC stickers over QR code stickers? (I sure you've gotten this question 1M times...)

Welcome back.

cheers Ben. I'll be swinging by the Quid offices soon.

I'm not there any more, actually, but say hello!

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