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First 5 MVPs greenlighted

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106 pointsbenologist19 comments

This is awesome. There is, no doubt, going to be a lot of haters complaining about how hmexx is taking advantage of techies/the terms are unfair/don't do it/etc.

But the reality is he/she is putting money where his/her mouth is, and making it happen. To come up with something completely new like this takes guts, and even moreso to follow through. The fact that ~300 proposals were submitted is evidence that demand exists for such a program.

Also interesting is the fact that 4 out of the 5 participants selected are located outside of the United States. We'll see if geographic distance becomes an issue. I've long thought YC is missing out on a lot of talented developers who may not have the freedom to drop everything and move to Mountain View.

Needless to say, I'm looking forward to the results!

Where did you find 300 proposal number? didn't see that in the blog.

http://hnproposition.blogspot.nl/2013/01/0-unread-emails_23....

You should apply for the upcoming YC batch with this project...that would be so meta.

Kickstarter's terms of use explicitly say you can't Kickstart a Kickstarter competitor on Kickstarter. I wonder if YC would accelerate another accelerator?

  http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html

  30. Startups for startups. The increasing number of 
  startups is itself an opportunity for startups. We're one; 
  TechCrunch is another. What other new things can you do?

It sounds like some preposterous way to break the speed of light; we'll just accelerate the accelerator, and it's turtles all the way down.

On the one hand, it reduces YC's risk even further, by giving them a miniscule stake in a wide range of companies. But I don't think they would be content with helping the meta-accelerator; they'd want to be hands-on with every node on the tree. That's a lot of time investment with little capital investment, which is not really their bag.

The proposition generally seems less like an accelerator, and more like a small-scale VC fund. Less intensive, less structured, just a way to invest money in startups.

They'd have a front row seat when the companies in 'tier 2' eventually apply. After all YC is a lot more than just cash.

Yeah. They could use this sort of thing as a bye or something. It can help them see who is already doing good and interesting work.

It probably wouldn't be in their interest to accelerate a web startup accelerator. Maybe an accelerator for some other field. It would be interesting to watch this artificial organism reproduce.