Re: [DIYbio] Re: YCombinator for Biotech Open now in SF (Indie Bio prev SynBioAxlr8r)

> I bet the accelerator could manager to get a better rate if they were
> renting units in bulk.

I hope this is true, because here in Cork we're contemplating
facilitated accom for the teams. However, few rentiers are interested in
renting for only ~3 months, unless you look a student-grade accom
(because it's summer), but we're not precisely placed in the calendar to
take advantage of this accom, either.

On 17/10/14 20:29, Nathan McCorkle wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Josiah Zayner <josiah.zayner@gmail.com
> <mailto:josiah.zayner@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I have a question and maybe you know Cathal or maybe Jacob could
> answer. $35k is obviously not enough to start a company and and to
> pay a team of highly skilled individuals to live in SF for a period
> of months.
>
> If I were doing an incubator trying to attract Biotech people, if
> they were any good, I would expect that they would have a job
> already. If you have 3 people on a team for 3 months that's ~$3k per
> person per month and nothing left over. For instance, I live in the
> SF area and my rent is $1500/month and my apartment is not big
> enough for a team to live in. I could not live off of the $1500 left
> over based on my expenses.
>
>
> To each their own... I lived right next to UC Berkeley for a summer and
> was paying $200 a week... the fridge was about to fall through the floor
> into the apartment below and hot water in the shower was
> non-deterministic... but it worked and was literally right next to campus.
>
> It does seem like providing a dorm-room boarding would be
> encouraging/enabling for people who don't already live in SF or Cork. I
> bet the accelerator could manager to get a better rate if they were
> renting units in bulk.
>
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