Thanks everyone for the kind words. Just got back from dinner in the city to find myself at the top of HN for leaving a great company. Hopefully one day soon it'll be for successfully building a great one of my own. Thanks again.

Hi Dan please tell us a bit more about what it is like to work for TC. Is Mike a good boss? ;-)

That's awesome, I actually didn't know you were at TechCrunch before!

"Jason Calacanis congrats Dan! call me when you do your angel round.... and if you ever need a story on TechCrunch you know where to send the MacBook Air!"

RACK 'EM!

Hilarious. And HN-appropriate.

The Arrington/Calcanis relationship is impossible to decipher. But I guess I shouldn't care.

If a car cut Arrington off on the freeway, I get the feeling we'd have a story about how they have lots of freeways in Los Angeles, and Calacanis probably drives like a jerk.

Not really. They both have money, hence they put up with each other's idiosyncrasies (and stupidities). They bitch and moan loudly in public about those same idiosyncrasies, but they never, ever talk about people without money. That's the entire community in a nutshell.

Congrats to Daniel and Dave! I'm biased b/c I know these guys, but I'm excited about their startup. And hats off to Dan b/c it's never easy to leave a salaried, full-time gig for the ground floor of a startup.

They lost a TechCruncher to entrepreneurship, not Y Combinator.

Technically, using the word "entrepreneurship" in the headline would have been less precise and convey less information. So I must agree with the editor's choice to say YCombinator.

And yes, it makes for a more catchy headline too ;-)

Erm. Can it not be both?

wait, which one is which?

but i've always thought "y combinator is entrepreneurship"... (yelled as in "soylent green ...")

He could have reiterated entrepreneurship within the article, but we get the point.

Really need more people to step up and decide to make a difference in their startup. Good work, Dan! Can't wait to see what do you have in store for us! Got to love J's email response. Nicely done to say the least. Haha.

This clearly shows the value of Y combinator. Dan Levine gets techcrunched before he even has a company.

Or perhaps the value of working for TechCrunch.

Exactly, we got covered by TC early on by knowing one of the writers (and having a great product). The adage "Not what you know ..." is oh so true when it comes to publicity.

Congrats again to Dan + David. We're excited about their product - a real game changer.

To be honest, I think it's pretty short sighted to think that attending YC equates "scrounging for the YC chump change". This comes up every so often, and I think it's been essentially agreed upon that very few (if any) people attend YC for the money. They do it for the alumni/connections/mentoring/advice network.

YC isn't about money, it's about the relationships and the network of YC alumni and the prominent angels and VCs who show up at demo day.

I've never thought of the money as the major selling point of YC.