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2010 Startup School: October 16 at Stanford
- alain94040 16y agoThe lack of startup school this year is a big reason why I organized the founder conference. And then I bump into pg, and ask him how come there was no startup school this year. Of course there is one, he said. We just didn't announce it yet. Now he did :-)
- pg 16y agoYou could have just emailed me and asked.
- alain94040 16y agoHere was my thought process: I had attended AngelConf last year, and wanted to see if it was going to happen again. I checked that site, and it was still the old stuff, and the time was up. So I assumed AngelConf was a one-time thing. Later on, I wondered about startup school and did the same thing: I checked the web site, and nothing new... So my brain recognized a pattern: you guys must be too busy this year to do those conferences. So I was convinced that startup school was not happening. Therefore I didn't even think of asking you. Until I met you and asked you why you were not doing it anymore, which proves how convinced I was that my brain was smart :-) [apologies for the long and boring explanation, but now you know - next time, I suggest putting a small link saying it's coming again in 2010, and my brain won't make the wrong inferrence]
- immad 16y agoAngelConf was run in 2010 too. http://angelconf.com/ http://angelconf.com/
- kirubakaran 16y agoWill you be posting videos from the Founder Conference online?
- alain94040 16y agoYes, once I figure out how to dub soundtracks...
- grinich 16y agoFor anyone on the East Coast, we're having a similar event at MIT in September, open to anyone. http://startupbootcamp.mit.edu/ http://startupbootcamp.mit.edu/
- eposts 16y agoAny details on the speakers?
- arfrank 16y agohttp://www.startupschool.org/speakers.html http://www.startupschool.org/speakers.html
- borisk 16y agoMIT thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1617168 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1617168 Last year MIT thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=860701 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=860701 West coast 4 life ;)
- grinich 16y agoI'll post them next week. We've got a great lineup this year.
- bricestacey 16y agoCan't scroll on iPhone.
- cperciva 16y agoWill this be recorded for those of us who can't make it down to the bay area?
- arfrank 16y agoLast years talks were live streamed if I recall and are still accessible at: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool http://www.justin.tv/startupschool. I'd say its safe to assume that'd also be the case this year.
- jl 16y agoYes, you can catch the talks on Justin.tv again this year.
- cperciva 16y agoThanks! I'd personally prefer having talks downloadable in a standard format (say, mpeg) rather than only via justin.tv, but they're still much better than nothing. (Or maybe they have a download feature I haven't been able to find?)
- riffer 16y agoI just let them load in my browser and grab them out of my Flash cache ls -ltr /var/folders/jH/jH90qqJaGnOB1gJOwGbGKE+++TI/TemporaryItems/ on my Mac
- sabj 16y agoNot the most elegant solution, especially from an encoding / portability perspective. BUT, happy they're stream-able period! I will sadly not be in the area, but look forward to seeing it online.
- philwelch 16y agoA few interesting new speakers this time: Andy Bechtolsheim (Sun), Ron Conway, Tom Preston-Warner (GitHub) and Brian Chesky (Airbnb).
- replicatorblog 16y agoBrian gave the student commencement address at RISD the year we graduated, it was a masterpiece, unrivaled in the annals of higher education. I have HIGH hopes for this talk.
- aberman 16y agoI wasn't there, but I can imagine. Brian is a beast.
- mrduncan 16y agoThat list probably isn't complete yet either, those are just the current confirmed speakers. If I remember correctly, last year the list wasn't final until right around the time that acceptances were sent out.
- bmcnamara82 16y agoAnything planned for the Midwest?
- pg 16y agohttp://hipmunk.com http://hipmunk.com
- stevejohnson 16y agoSo, no then? I'm pretty sure he didn't ask his question because he was unaware of the existence of flight. Your link initially led me to believe that there is actually some other conference called Hipmunk in the Midwest, but instead it was a LetMeGoogleThatForYou.com-style flight search page. For those of you actually interested in events in the Midwest, I can tell you that we're doing some interesting things in Cleveland that I can scrounge up more information about. Nothing conference-level that I'm aware of, but events with founders and incubators are becoming more and more frequent. Edit: Cleveland Startup Weekend is in November and there's some sort of kickoff party in a few days. http://cleveland.startupweekend.org/ http://cleveland.startupweekend.org/
- jackowayed 16y agoI think PG hears a lot about location ("We're the YC of Alaska!", "Do we have to move if we get into YC?") and is getting tired of it. If you want to start a startup, moving to a startup hotspot will help a lot. If you want to attend cool conferences, move somewhere that frequently has cool conferences, or be willing to get on a plane for a good event. The Midwest won't have a successful Startup School clone (at least not with speakers of this caliber) because it's not dense enough with startup people. Maybe there are enough people to make the event worthwhile in all of the Midwest, but it's such a huge area that a lot of people would still be facing very long drives or flying. When people say "I want an event like this in <my region>", they really mean "I want an event like this within a 2 hour drive of my house, preferably closer." They don't mean "I live in Ohio and would happily travel to Kansas for this event." If someone were to announce an event like this in, say, Minneapolis, a lot of people form Indiana and Ohio would realize that that's not what they had in mind when they asked for a Startup School clone in the Midwest. And now PG's invested in a flight comparison startup, so just as people sometimes link to http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/ http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/, he can link to Hipmunk to say "just fucking fly here."
- ashishbharthi 16y agoI think the session should be live streamed or recorded and hosted somewhere for non valley people. pg?
- akkartik 16y agoAlways is. Details will follow, I'm sure.
- profitoftruth85 16y agoIt will be on justin.tv
- il 16y agoCan anyone who has attended a past Startup School share their experience? What's the general atmosphere of the event? Is it similar to other conferences you've attended? Does it offer value on its own merits, or is it simply a day-long sales pitch for YC?
- icey 16y agoI attended last year's startup school. It is absolutely not an advertisement for YC. It's basically a bunch of people who are deeply involved in the startup world offering their advice on how to start up. If you are contemplating a startup or you're already doing a startup I would say it's worth attending. Outside of the interesting talks (which will most likely find their way online anyways), it's a great opportunity to talk to other like-minded people and hear about what sort of stuff they're working on.
- dariusmonsef 16y agoIt's what you'd expect from Y Combinator... Top Notch speakers, being candid and telling stories as if you're personally having a conversation with them. Speakers stayed after and were approchable. It is well worth a few hundred bucks to attend... and ridiculous in that it is free. So yeah, apply. It's worth it.
- wooster 16y agoThe talks are interesting, with some fun (sometimes conflicting) variation between approaches, advice, and strategies. The people, as usual, really make it worthwhile. I met a lot of really interesting people last year and had a lot of wonderful conversations. Startup School is my favorite tech conference-alike-thingy (not really sure I'd call it a conference), by far. I'd be going this year if it wasn't in the middle of my trip to Nepal.
- rob_rasmussen 16y agoI was there two years ago, and it was easily the best conference I've attended. Can't recommend it enough. What's the general atmosphere of the event? It's intense (lots of content), and no-nonsense. Every speaker had something valuable to say, and they didn't talk down to the audience at all. I found the day motivating, especially DHH's talk and just chatting with my peers. With the exception of one person, everyone I met was a hacker and was working on something. Is it similar to other conferences you've attended? Not really, one big difference: the overall quality of the attendees. I'm a shy person, but there were so many people talking about writing code (vs. big idea people) that I felt like I fit right in. Is it simply a day-long sales pitch for YC? The only real pitch-man the year I attended was Jeff Bezos, his talk was a pitch for AWS. However, he was so impressive during the Q&A that I can forgive him.
- startupgrrl 16y agoI, too, have attended last year's startup school. It is not an advertisement for YC. It was always about a certain someone in the startup community. But...love won out. He was always so patient and giving and eventually I was able to get over all these issues and really be in a position where I could love somebody...and I basically woke up one morning and realized that I was in love with him, and he was the man I would marry. So, I took him to the pier we launched canoes from, and told him how I had overcome all these issues and wasn't scared to let him in anymore and that I was so glad he failed in all his initial plans after college, because it meant we were together in Silicon Valley.
- limedaring 16y agoI'm semi-technical — designer and front-end developer and building my own startup at the moment. However, since the conference is centered around programmers, I'm wondering whether I'll be accepted to go (application already submitted). Any other designers/front-end people go to last years?
- csmeder 16y agoPaul, is there any way we can get a confirmation email that our submission was added? A confirmation email would set me at ease after submitting something I care so much about.
- pg 16y agoIf you got the confirmation page afterward, we got it.
- maxklein 16y agoI'll not apply for this one, but for the next one, I'll apply, and (big) maybe I get accepted. I think it would be a pretty interesting experience.
- Lamhoiming 16y agoGreat
- h34t 16y agoAre there typically ancillary events planned before/after? If accepted I'll be flying some distance to attend, and would love the chance at more time for conversation with the like-minded.
- mahipal 16y agoLast year, there was some sort of food-based reception right afterwards on campus. For the evening, a few YC companies threw after-parties at their offices in SF.