Moving back to SF and doing Y Combinator again

http://kulveer.co.uk/2011/06/07/moving-back-to-sf-and-doing-y-combinator-again/

by kul • 15 years ago

136 24 15 years ago

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immad• 15 years ago

Congrats Kul

kul2• 15 years ago

thanks Immad!

bkudria2• 15 years ago

Welcome back.

kul2• 15 years ago

cheers Ben. I'll be swinging by the Quid offices soon.

bkudria2• 15 years ago

I'm not there any more, actually, but say hello!

timr• 15 years ago

I gotta say: the Woody Allen thing is more annoying than cool. One of the advantages of living elsewhere is that when you've got Geek Stuff you want to do, you never have to make advance plans.

The Bay Area is like Bizarro Universe when it comes to nerd culture.

cwe• 15 years ago

I don't mean to flame or rip on Kul, but why are they letting grads of the program--with successful exits under their belts!--go through YC again? Aren't there enough awesome teams out there that need this program a first time?

aaronblohowiak• 15 years ago

YC is not a need based program. That kind of thinking is good for charity, not capitalism.

skmurphy• 15 years ago

Return on investment: investing in a known quantity is lower risk.

pmjordan• 15 years ago

Also, if you're doing it all over again after a respectable exit, you're more likely to keep going for the really big prize. Which is what investors are after.

redthrowaway• 15 years ago

It's not like you graduate with a degree, and doing it again is redundant. It's a focussed networking and product development session where you get some much-needed advance from people in the know as you develop your company. Funding alumni is a no-brainer; it's a much safer investment.

mchusma• 15 years ago

I'm more curious about why grads are redoing the program...I understand the stick with what works mentality but Y-comb alumni should already have the ears of investors. You don't need yc to focus on product. As I'm writing this I guess the exception might be if your customers are heavily technical, like the heroku for NFC.

Cherian_Abraham2• 15 years ago

Great. Your blog is definitely useful in understanding the different types of stickers and which scenarios they map to. All I need now is a Nexus S.

Goodluck.

identity86• 15 years ago

wow great to see another mallu on YC!

Cherian_Abraham2• 15 years ago

HA!

I thought I would never ...especially on YC!

Holler at me, will ya? cherian.abraham@googlemail

biot• 15 years ago

Given that you're from the Great White North, what sort of immigration hoops did you have to jump through? Are you on a TN Visa, are you only down there visiting and you'll move back to Canada to work on the startup full-time, or something else?

JMiao• 15 years ago

i believe kulveer's originally from the uk, but moved to canada following live current media's acquisition of auctomatic.

RK• 15 years ago

What are the advantages of NFC stickers over QR code stickers? (I sure you've gotten this question 1M times...)

ojbyrne2• 15 years ago

Here's a clue on the taxi situation. SF is 7 miles x 7 miles (and the bulk of this is Richmond or Sunset where you'll rarely go). Walk. Ride a bike. Take the Muni or BART. Problem solved.

hugh32• 15 years ago

Have you tried walking from the Marina to the Mission, late at night, wearing leather loafers? It kinda sucks.

And MUNI isn't public transport, it's just a homeless shelter with wheels.

fourspace• 15 years ago

Don't go to the Marina and you won't have that problem.

ojbyrne2• 15 years ago

Actually I've done that many times. Great exercise.

Sukotto• 15 years ago

How is the entry-interview different if you're an alumni? Do they even interview you or do you get auto-approved for the program?

Moving back to SF and doing Y Combinator again

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