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Paul Graham’s Y Combinator leaves Boston, entrepreneurs dive under the bed

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why is it always "paul graham's Y Combinator" if trevor, robert, jessica, and paul are all equal partners?

Very polite of you to point out, but it's clear why.

It's the sandals.

who are trevor and robert? :)

http://www.freebase.com/view/en/y_combinator

yeah, I actually do know, I've seen the team page before.

but afair hn/yc was started solely by pg with jessica's book release shortly thereafter, at least that was the impression I got. other guys must have joined later (or they kept low profile before)

I'd like to see them use this forum.

They do, just not often.

Wish granted. I do read most threads here, though I don't comment often.

Untrue, they were original partners. Paul is the public face.

Plus Kate too.

The author of this article unwittingly makes the argument he was trying to oppose, which is that money drives your choice of location.

He acknowledges that his startup was 100% bootstrapped and profitable. In those happy circumstances it doesn't really matter where you are located, unless taking venture capital would help you grow faster (if fast growth is your goal).

However most startups wouldn't exist without some capital, and Silicon Valley has the highest concentration of wealthy tech investors. Those investors like to be able to keep a close eye on their investment, ergo all the entrepreneurs cluster where the money is.

The article isn't loading for me, but didn't this happen a few years ago? I have to wonder, why the submission now?

Wasn't loading for me either. Went to the homepage of that domain and scrolled down til I found it. Article is 8 months old.

Loaded for me just fine at first, site now seems to be a bit slow :)

Anyway, the point he's trying to make is that it doesn't matter much where your start-up is based in today's day and age.

Unless of course you need to hire someone who doesn't telecommute 100% of the time.

Uh, right, because talented people only ever live in Silicon Valley (or the largest 20 cities, or whatever). Every startup's prospects relate to their geography uniquely, and the herd has nothing to do with where any particular startup should be located.

Yeah, we just moved our blog stuff around today -- funny to see this old post making the rounds again.

Not loading for me either... so not sure what it's really about. But if the headline is any indication, it seems like sort of a strange sentiment. Didn't TechStars Boston just have their first demo day recently? And isn't Venture Cafe set to open soon in Cambridge? And aren't there are a ton of successful (subjectivity alert) startups in the Boston-area (Compete, mZinga, Communispace, gamerDNA, HubSpot, Xconomy... just to name a few)?

From a semi-outsider perspective, the entrepreneurial community in Boston seems fairly healthy even without YC.

"Otherwise, start your business where you’ll be happy and where you’ll find like-minded people." Seems this was one of the reason YC left Boston,

All of us liked being in Cambridge, We certainly didn't leave because there weren't like-minded people there. But being bi-coastal sucks, so we had to choose.

Oh, sure, and I've got no axe to grind with YC, pg, or anyone else there. I was more irritated by the reaction in the Boston area than anything else.

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