[martinrigby]

Without wanting to take away from the pioneering example of Y Combinator itself, I like the way that Redgate, the Cambridge UK based SQL tools developer, has set about setting up Springboard as an adjunct to the main business. The objective is to strengthen the Cambridge developer cluster to the benefit of everyone in that community and economy including, even if indirectly, Redgate itself. Besides speaking to Paul Graham about Y Combinator, I'd speak to either of Neil Davidson or Simon Galbraith the Redgate founders.