2 points | by georgestrakhov 14 hours ago ago
3 comments
If you can't spend 3 months in SF, you probably can't spend 3 months in any other european city/country.
Is there a city with anywhere near the critical mass of SF?
If that happened to be on the other side of the EU, would you be OK living a 3-hour flight away from Amsterdam, rather than a 13 hour flight away?
Is commuting back and forth 3-hours compatible with the "SF-level work ethic", as you call it?
Amsterdam to London is little more than 1 hour by plane.
And nobody checks your social media handles when you land.
> due to my family being here in Amsterdam, business being here and my future
Isn't the point of YC (if you make it) that the startup and YC = your future?
What do you actually want? Can't have everything.
If you can't spend 3 months in SF, you probably can't spend 3 months in any other european city/country.
Is there a city with anywhere near the critical mass of SF?
If that happened to be on the other side of the EU, would you be OK living a 3-hour flight away from Amsterdam, rather than a 13 hour flight away?
Is commuting back and forth 3-hours compatible with the "SF-level work ethic", as you call it?
Amsterdam to London is little more than 1 hour by plane.
And nobody checks your social media handles when you land.
> due to my family being here in Amsterdam, business being here and my future
Isn't the point of YC (if you make it) that the startup and YC = your future?
What do you actually want? Can't have everything.