Monday, February 8, 2016

4 Y Combinator tips for building startups in Baltimore or anywhere

Before the winter edition of HopHacks kicked off, a big crowd turned out at Johns Hopkins to hear about nurturing startups at scale from a pair of Y Combinator staffers.

The big takeaway of this YC Winter Tour for startups is pretty straightforward: applications for the biannual seed accelerator program are open. The Mountain View, Calif.-based accelerator program runs two batches each year. It provides $120,000 to each startup in exchange for 7 percent equity.

Beyond details on how one of Silicon Valley’s big accelerator programs works, however, the duo of managing partner Dalton Caldwell and hardware specialist Luke Iseman gave a talk that shows building startups is a similar experience no matter where you are.

Read more at Technical.ly Baltimore



from http://baltimoretech.org/news/4-y-combinator-tips-for-building-startups-in-baltimore-or-anywhere/

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