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There have been quite a few threads like this on HN over the years (including one I made :-)). I wonder if there's some way of formalizing or aggregating the concept of visiting other companies, it seems there's an audience for it.

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"Some way of formalizing or aggregating the concept"... like StartupCrawl? :-) http://startupcrawl.com/ (My startup, Sauce Labs, participated in the crawl in 2009 -- it coincided with RubyConf that year, so there was a lot of flow-over traffic from RubyConf go-ers.)

Hmm perhaps if this were more than once a year?

I worked in high-end restaurants for a number of years where where there is a practice known as staging. Many restaurants allow cooks to come work for a few days to a few months, generally without pay. One of the biggest advantages of this system is that cooks can gain high-level experience from a restaurant they might be unqualified to work in. It would be cool to this kind of casual system in this industry.

Yeah, that'd be awesome to do a placement at a scaling startup.

Peter, aren't you exactly the type of man for this job? =)

;-) I have an "OK" level of connections but I imagine something like this would be SF/SV focused and I have no real feet on the ground there. Thanks for the vote of confidence though!

In New York, there's WalkAboutNYC. They organize events frequently enough. http://walkaboutnyc.com/

Hm. I'd be interested in helping with this if anyone else would want to brainstorm. Having it be formalized is important as most companies aren't that interested in having random people wander in every day - even with appointments.

I'd be in too. I wonder if that's necessarily true, startups in SF seem to be relatively open to devs wandering in, but I think you have a good point.

Yeah no kidding. We're already staying at one of our customer's houses while we're there. So there's a ton of support for visiting startups.

Didn't there used to be a tour thing after every Startup School?

>used to be a tour thing

There has been a YC distributed open house at least each of the past couple of years. Haven't heard if there will be one this year or not.

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