My recent co-founders and I applied for YC this summer. While we did not make the initial cut, we did not move forward with applying to other incubators. The reasoning:
- YC provided experience not only from their own start-up success but also from an incubator (though they're really not an incubator) standpoint. Major reason to apply.
- None of the others we found provided something truly special.
Incubators need to find ways to differentiate. If they want to entice the best applications, it is important they offer something of interest outside of office space, some cash and a widely attended demo day.
I'm ready for another program worth applying to, and I do not want it to look anything like YC.
My recent co-founders and I applied for YC this summer. While we did not make the initial cut, we did not move forward with applying to other incubators. The reasoning:
- YC provided experience not only from their own start-up success but also from an incubator (though they're really not an incubator) standpoint. Major reason to apply.
- None of the others we found provided something truly special.
Incubators need to find ways to differentiate. If they want to entice the best applications, it is important they offer something of interest outside of office space, some cash and a widely attended demo day.
I'm ready for another program worth applying to, and I do not want it to look anything like YC.