Is Y Combinator worth it? It’s funny: You can ask two totally different YC alumni that question and get two totally different answers, even if they both attended the same batch.

I recently talked with a guy who's about to launch an incubator in Europe, and he asked me about my experiences at Y Combinator. He wanted to know what makes Y Combinator the arguably most successful incubator there is.

Here's a post we originally published back in 2012 on our ElasticSales blog. We're republishing it because many people are still asking us how we got into YC.