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2008 Startup School April 19. Confirmed so far: Andreessen, Bezos, DHH
- alaskamiller 19y agolast year's was great
- gibsonf1 19y agoAdding event to my google calendar... :) (Note to self: bring lunch as buying lunch last year was really hard because of the huge lines)
- bostonbiz 19y agoThis is a really great suggestion. I think I ended up eating a bag of pretzels and a diet coke for lunch that day.
- Alex3917 19y agoTry using SubEthaEdit to make friends with someone who has a car. :-)
- vlad 19y agoAnother suggestion: try to get a seat as soon as you can so you don't have to stand for hours at a time. Also, I think parking on campus is free over the weekend.
- sharpshoot 19y agowoah. Nice work Jessica!
- jsjenkins168 19y agoSmall suggestion: Add geographic location on the name tags so those traveling from afar can network with local hackers. I was really wishing for that last year...
- pg 19y agoIf people have other suggestions, tell us here. One thing we'd thought of doing was having different colored dots people could put on their nametags if they were looking for a startup or looking for more people for one...
- lsb 19y agoStartup School: the traffic light party for nerds.
- eusman 19y agojustin.tv could have a live link for the rest of us? maybe?
- danielha 19y agoThey did last year.
- abstractbill 19y agoGreat idea. I'm sure we'll do it.
- cstejerean 19y agoI hope you go forward with this idea, it should help out with networking.
- leeskye 19y agoI absolutely agree. It would really help to see why people are coming down there and can also be a great icebreaker.
- edw519 19y agoHow about "Would Like a Place To Stay" and "Can Host a Hacker", possibly even check boxes on the application form. If I travel cross country for what could be a life changing weekend, I'd rather spend the down time hanging with like minded people instead of at a Best Western. (Maybe then someone could throw a web app together to help us find each other)
- ajkirwin 19y agoDamn, California. And here's me, on the east coast.
- semigeek 19y agoSo am I, but I've flown to San Francisco for the last 2 years for this - contemplating applying for another year to go out and network. I have to admit, I partied a little to hard the night before SS last year with some fellow hackers and was very late for the sessions.
- danielha 19y agoSweet! Jessica pulls through with another great lineup. Though I admit I'm most looking forward to pg's always entertaining talk.
- ashu 19y agoAwesomeness. Looking forward to it...
- far33d 19y agoNo spot on the app for yc.news usernames? You know - in case you think our comments here might be proof enough of technical ability and worthiness :)
- pg 19y agoI don't want to seem like we're trying to force people to sign up for News.YC. I'll tell you what, though: if everyone uses the same email address when they apply that they have in their profile, I'll try to match them. That means you can't say e.g. whatever [at] gmail in your profile email field. But you don't need to anyway; it isn't visible to crawlers.
- paul7986 19y agoIs the majority recent college grads? Any 30ish entrepreneurs?
- cstejerean 19y agoI can tell you that last year there was a good amount of 30ish entrepreneurs although the majority of folks did seem to be college students/recent grads (myself included).
- iamelgringo 19y ago34 here.
- Mistone 19y agoyo soy 28
- Mistone 19y agodone....thanks for looking out for the yc newsers
- lyime 19y ago21 here.
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- jamiequint 19y agoBezos + Andreessen FTW
- Trep 19y agoAnyone want to webcast this? I'm near Denver, and it's quite a commute.
- endlessvoid94 19y agosecond. illinois would be quite a trek, i'd LOVE to go. student = poor = no way can i fly and hotel stay unless its SUPER cheap.
- falsestprophet 19y agocheckout couchsurfing.com. i bet you can find somewhere to stay near the stanford campus. and because you are a student, it will be minimally creepy. still, a $300 ticket is too much for me
- leeskye 19y agoIs there a rule for this? Was never clear on the recording policy.
- fallentimes 19y agoTrep did you ever hear anything on this? I don't think I'll be able to make it in person either.
- Mistone 19y agookay - okay - my application is in. was surprised not to see a spot for YC News username, guess I would be really bummed to miss this.
- mattmaroon 19y agoQuite a list there.
- kirubakaran 19y agoCan you automatically allow YCNews users above a karma threshold? (It will help me book flight tickets in advance)
- cstejerean 19y agoI like that suggestion (assuming I'm above the threshold).
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- lyime 19y agoTotally agree. Its spring break time, so flights get expensive.
- sethjohn 19y agoMajor props, in advance, to whomever can manage a high-quality recording of the talks. The podcasts are a great service for those of us who can't make it in person!
- cmer 19y agoStartup School is BY FAR the best startup event to attend. The line-up is top notch year after year.
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- lyime 19y agowow I cant wait. It looks like way to many people are going to register for this, they prob wont accept most of them.
- PStamatiou 19y agomy dilemma: I'm on the east coast so if I attend I would have to fly out just for the weekend. Should I still go or should I fly out to CA to visit friends for my longer spring break in late March?
- mwmanning 19y agoDoes anyone have figures for acceptance rates from previous years? I'd like to have a rough idea what my chances of getting to go are.
- bootload 19y ago"... 2008 Startup School April 19 ..." Has anyone ever thought to invite "John McCarthy" to talk?