There's always the "before they were famous" angle (important as more YC companies come in at later stages of maturity than "two guys with a gleam in their eye"). I think AirBnB, for example, cornered the market on Obama-themed balanced breakfasts prior to being in YC.
If that doesn't satisfy, particular journalists looking for scrappy upstarts can still find them - the Internet is a big place. I mean, Andrew Warner manages to find a new story every day, with fairly little overlap with other sources of news I follow.
If that doesn't satisfy, particular journalists looking for scrappy upstarts can still find them - the Internet is a big place. I mean, Andrew Warner manages to find a new story every day, with fairly little overlap with other sources of news I follow.