Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it?
pg: It depends what their goal is.  Most of them seem initially to have the goal of improving the startup scene in a particular region.  But, as they then discover, there's nothing regional about the seed funding business.  Founders come from all over, and leave afterwards for wherever they get more funding.The way to help a region is to be the place where they get more funding.  I tried a thought experiment about that (http://paulgraham.com/maybe.html).  The problem is, it would cost a lot more.