| Just to be clear, I'm one of the co-founders of Conjunctured. What we're trying to do is eventually get to a YC model or something fairly similar; we're definitely not a non-profit, btw. While initially the coworking space might not be able to provide seed money, what we do hope to provide from the very beginning is an environment where startups will thrive. Maybe these startups will come from two guys working as a freelance designer and developer within the space, but we want them to meet, collaborate on a random project, pursue an idea and have their idea take off. They'll move out of Conjunctured and right next door into their own offce. "Support" from Conjunctured will start out as vouchers for free rent within the coworking space, but will turn into different kinds of support (money, advisors, etc.) given some time. First the coworking space. The fund comes later. So, calling it exactly like YC is probably incorrect. Kinda like it? You could say that. I encourage you guys to look at the district idea right from John at his blog: http://blog.think27.com/austin-startup-district-story (and to a lesser extent here: http://blog.think27.com/austin-startup-community-vision). And any Austin people on Hacker News we definitely want to meet, so make sure to follow us on Twitter (I'm @cesart). We're always up for meeting and usually at least one of us is at every tech event in town. The fact that we don't know each other already, given how damn small the city is, is the main reason for trying to rally everyone together in the first place. There HAS to be a central location for everyone to go (startups and VCs alike) in order for good stuff to happen. Feel free to contact me with any questions or arguments. :) |