[edblarney]

There's authenticity in all of these comments.

BUT - if you're going to take $100K Angel from someone - who would you prefer it to be?

YC is still the top. You get 'some brand', 'access to a lot of investors' - and some residual benefits from network access.

That's more than you get with most entities.

So if you're not 'hooked up' into investor networks, or are from an area that does not have good 'startup zen' - then YC is still probably the top choice.

And FYI I have no specific love for YC, and not relationship to them. And yes - though I think they are pretty good, I also think they aren possibly a little 'over-hyped', but that's not their fault. (Please don't ban me :) )