http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2009/04/07/you-didnt-make-it-to-y-combinator-or-techstars-now-what/
In my opinion it is true that the best part of YC is the contacts you make and it got me thinking can you really get these yourself?
I didn't get accepted into this years YC like many other people here but still really want to develop my idea, it's a site for storing contact information, just like a web based address book but one you can access from various different platforms.
I live in the UK and am six weeks from the end of my computing degree, my bank balance reflets that. It's got me thinking if I really could just book a flight over to SF and see what happens, do you really think anyone could find contacts and develop their project with as much ease as the article states? Here is the UK it is very much a closed door policy and talking about your ideas is a no no.
Richard