Elia breaks down three programs. Ewer was very early stage but where he "really learned about the basic of startup and customer discovery." EF "nailed" co-founder matching because they put you "in a room with like 70 people" who are all full time. YC is where "everything is possible" and the network and SF "accelerate 10 times the startup."
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Elia has done several residencies and ranks them by what each does well. Ewer: "very early stage, so it changed a lot," but it's where "I really learned about the basic of startup and customer discovery," a skill "you don't learn... at technical school." EF: best for co-founder matching "if you don't have a co founder and you're struggling not finding the right match, because they put you in a room with like 70 people that has different experience... and they are all full time, which is something you struggle to find" — though it's "only doing that for two months." YC: "for sure amazing — the people you meet there are really insane... it feels so like that everything is possible, and this is something that you don't really feel that much in Europe." For Elia, "in YC I think we became way more ambitious... you don't see any limiting belief anymore," and YC plus San Francisco "just accelerate 10 times the startup."