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Heading to Silicon Valley next week for 10 days for Augmented World Expo and to check out opportunities. Any ideas on cool things to see and do would be great.

What is the real future of AR. How can it leave it's constrains to be a truly progressive technology versus just a marketing novelty.

I am a game dev heading to SF for the first time. I will be staying in Palo Alto. Sure would like to know of all of the cool, nerdy and fun things to see and do. I am very interested in the startup scene, and opportunities. Much appreciated.

I have a 3Dgame project starting up. I had used basecamp awhile ago and was very excited to hear they had a new rev. Sadly, I was very disappointed to see that there is still no proper integration for artwork. I think there is a great opportunity for a startup to create a basecamp like product for artists and designers, with image roll-over, audio/video support, and vector art. And also have it link out to Github. Maybe there is a product but I sure haven't seen it in my research. If anyone has suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.

You guys are a class act..

We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding. Please don't take it personally. The applications we receive get better every funding cycle, and since there's a limit on the number of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot of genuinely promising groups.

Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know we make lots of mistakes. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing.

http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html

We're trying to get better at this, but the hard limit on the number of interviews means it's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.

Y Combinator Team

We are a Canadian game company/startup. We have a micro 2 man seasoned team with great tech and a good prototype. We are wanting to come to the valley to couch surf to meet and greet. Can you help? I am the creative biz dev guy. I will drive the couch, and the business. Any help is much appreciated for hook ups and couches. email upon request.

I don't live in SV or Boston, but I need to find a Good-Angel. Somebody with heart.. The investors here (small town Canada), kind of struggle with getting Web 2.0. They like hardware.

So any good advice on what YOU would do to go to the next level. Would be greatly appreciated.

I am considering taking my pitch to SV. As a Canadian corp, is this a good idea or bad. I don't want to move to SV, but want to have a crack at the VC's. Can it be done??? I know that Flickr did it but eventually had to move down...or do SV_VC's not interested in Canadian opportunities...