[mamcx]

What I see of this, is similar to my experience in be part of the "startup"-machine business. I won a award in my country (for my business idea), and participate in several contest where I land in the finalist.

What tremendous waste of time.

Triying to chase the "investor money" was the most damaging thing I do. I waste months on that. Building investor plans, do meetings, and work on CANVAS and other methodologies where some company, that get the real $$$ to "create startups", guided each of us to the path of silicon valley..yes, rigthhh....

At the end, I understand that we was part of a masterplan, where the money was on the big players sucking from the gov funds on build startups, with pre-pakaked advice and zero of the real value that we need.

I think that YCombinator is the only that truly make sense, and the rest copy-cats are more a waste of time than not (even with good intentions).