Techstars is a YC-style program out of Boulder. Has anyone considered it? Why or why not?

It was brought up in a past discussion that TechStars are not exclusively seeding-stage and have close ties to VCs, which is something to be very wary about. If you take a look at their application, it's near-idenical to Y Comb's. If they can't be bothered to write their own _app_, I'm not convinced that their program is anywhere near well thought-out.

Plus, YC understands young hackers and the startup community like no other group of individuals I've ever come across. We're solely focused on applying to them as far as seed funding goes.

I know very little about techstars, but it might be worth taking pg's advice, since "Bad Location" is #2 on the 18 Mistakes that Kill Startups:

http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

There's a reason YC is only Boston and Bay Area.

It seems like a decent program. The location threw me off though. I'm not interested in moving to Colorado anytime soon. But I'm pretty sure it's a decent place to start a business even though other locations such as Silicon Valley of Boston would be better.

It will be interesting to see which of these two programs produces more successful startups in the long run.

I've applied to it. Waiting to hear back. Has some pretty smart people behind it.

-Zaid