Fair enough, but since there's a geographic element to startup accelerators, can't their addition merely be porting the concept to another geography?<p>If I visit SF and go to a great a great Hawaiian-Italian fusion restaurant (I random example), I don't think the proprietor would blame me of plagiarism if I started a Hawaiian-Italian joint in Boston.<p>Further, I see important differences between YC and competing accelerators.  YC doesn't provide office space; TechStars and DreamIt do.  I'm not sure which approach is better, but I do think it's a non-trivial difference.