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Founders' Co-op
Company blog · founderscoop.comstartupsbusiness
Founders' Co-op is the company blog at founderscoop.com, writing about startups and business. Since 2008, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “What went wrong at Techstars”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Founders' Co-op mainly for its 2024 post on what went wrong at TechStars' Seattle accelerator, which one commenter calls an erudite and incisive autopsy. Other links are to its investor and accelerator-list mentions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Pacific Northwest's Seed-Stage Venture Fund
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-05-28
- What went wrong at Techstars3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-22
- Does this look familiar to anyone?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-04-16
What Hacker News says?
> https://www.founderscoop.com/2024/what-went-wrong-at-techsta ... Thank you, it's what I'm looking for to understand why.
Comment linking /2024/what-went-wrong-at-techsta
on “They thought they were joining an accelerator – instead they lost their startups”Submitted What went wrong at Techstars as a story · 168 points
HN discussionThis piece goes into some detail: https://www.founderscoop.com/2024/what-went-wrong-at-techsta... . An erudite and incisive autopsy of a disintegrating accelerator. I'm no longer in the startup scene so I can't vouch for its facts, however.
Comment linking /2024/what-went-wrong-at-techstars/
on “They thought they were joining an accelerator – instead they lost their startups”Submitted Does this look familiar to anyone? as a story · 33 points
HN discussionOnly very tangentially related, my scrappy, not-too-well capitalized (from Founder's Co-op: http://www.founderscoop.com ) Seattle start-up (AppStoreHQ: http://www.appstorehq.com ) is also seeking developers: http://blog.appstorehq.com/post/482789903/appstorehq-is-look... EDIT: Err, why the downvotes?
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on “Well-capitalized Seattle start-up seeks Unix developers”Submitted How to Run a Startup Accelerator as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFWIW, Andy Sack, the Executive Director is a great guy with tons of operational experience. I fully expect this program to be fantastic. Full disclosure: Andy is a GP at Founder's Co-op ( http://www.founderscoop.com ), which invested in my startup.
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on “TechStars to launch Seattle program (Fall 2010)”Submitted Am I ready to quit my day job? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI would argue that if you're going to go the trouble of including a "Shout-outs" page, you should mention the company who's application you stole verbatim: http://www.founderscoop.com/shout-outs.php
Comment linking /shout-outs.php
on “Does this look familiar to anyone?”Submitted Seattle's Founders Coop Raises Seed Fund IV ($25M) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSeattle 2.0 is pretty involved in the Seattle startup scene. You can check out their job board here at: http://www.seattle20.com/jobs/ Also, I know some TechStars Seattle companies are hiring. These jobs aren't listed on a particular website, but you can check out all the companies that launched in Seattle here: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/techstars-launches-ten-new-... If there is a company you're interested i…
Comment linking /portfolio.php
on “Ask HN: Jobs & Startups in Seattle (urgentish)”it's http://www.founderscoop.com/ that you want to lookup a community of founders with equity interest in companies working with the coop
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on “Ask YC: Can I become a VC?”Nope, you're thinking of Founder's Coop in portland. Here's the discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=164892 They actually have updated their application to include a thank-you to YC: http://www.founderscoop.com/apply.php
Comment linking /apply.php
on “How Philadelphia incubator DreamIt Ventures wants to improve on Y Combinator model”Thanks for the YC alternativs: http://www.capitalfactory.com - Austin http://www.dreamitventures.com - Philadelphia http://www.founderscoop.com/ - Seattle http://www.launchboxdigital.com/ - Washington, D.C http://www.techstars.org/ - Boulder, Boston http://www.seedcamp.com/ - London http://www.hitforge.com/ - ??? http://www.boostphase.com/ - ??? I'm from Germany.
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: I can't do YC. What are alternatives?”http://www.founderscoop.com/ http://www.techstars.org/ http://www.launchboxdigital.com/ http://seedcamp.com/ i know there's more, i just can't think of any others off the top of my head.
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on “Ask YC: YC alternatives ?”Here's the blog post that she is responding to by Chris DeVore: https://www.founderscoop.com/2024/what-went-wrong-at-techsta...
Comment linking /2024/what-went-wrong-at-techstars/
on “Techstars CEO responds to former Seattle lead, tells him to check his facts”
