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What would the next Y Combinator look like? | thesephist.com

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This is a subjective question, but I think YC is set apart from its peers because the ecosystem around YC is the largest concentrator of capital and innovative talent at the center of a global startup hub. From this fact, other notable things, like YC’s productivity as an accelerator and its brand, fall out. There’s nothing inherently special about YC’s curriculum or investing strategy or size. It’s the second-order effects of a large but concentrated community that sets YC apart from other accelerators and other entrepreneurship ecosystems. I think there are three components, roughly in order, that make the YC model “work” and will be essential for the next “YC” in any industry and locale. YC’s founding thesis is that good engineers build good companies, because a startup’s biggest risk is often the ability to execute better and more rapidly than their competition and cash burn. At a time when most early stage funds (of which there were relatively few) were looking for “balanced” team

First, what does “the next Y Combinator” even mean? This is a subjective question, but I think YC is set apart from its peers because the ecosystem around YC is the largest concentrator of capital and innovative talent at the center of a global startup hub. From this fact, other notable things, like YC’s productivity as an accelerator and its brand, fall out. There’s nothing inherently special about YC’s curriculum or investing strategy or size. It’s the second-order effects of a large but concentrated community that sets YC apart from other accelerators and other entrepreneurship…

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