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So, who's going to Startup School?

5 points by RyanGWU82 20y ago

RyanGWU82 20y ago
I'll be there. :) -- Ryan Park, Stanford grad student
danielha 20y ago
I'll be there as well. I'm looking forward to meeting the lot of you. :) We have a meetup discussion going in here: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=2757 It'd be great to meet the startup community "after school," so let's decide on a place.
jasonyan 20y ago
Count me in. :)
jamiequint 20y ago
I'll be there, just got my invite, I made a facebook group so we can all chat & talk about meeting up... http://up.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2251607090 anyone else coming from out of town? (I'm coming down from Portland, OR)
- Elfan 20y ago
  I'll be coming from PA.
mattculbreth 20y ago
I'll be there.
palish 20y ago
I'll be there. I'm from St Louis, MO, so it'll be refreshing to get out of the midwest ;)
wensing 20y ago
See you there (from Florida).
- aristus 20y ago
  Where in FL? I'm in Miami. Maybe we can meetup before or after.
  - ljlolel 20y ago
    I'm in Miami too. Not sure if I can go, though. When are you flying up?
    - aristus 20y ago
      We're going out Friday morning, back on Sunday evening. Ping me, eh? There's a surprising amount of startup stuff happening in Miami. Carlos at Bueno period organization-tld
nandan 20y ago
I ll be there (from Atlanta,GA)
abstractbill 20y ago
I'll be there.
veritas 20y ago
I'll be there from Jersey.
aristus 20y ago
Coming from Miami, looking to see if I still own a coat. :) http://carlos.bueno.org/2007/03/startup-school-startup-culture.html
RMena 20y ago
I will be going! My name is Robert from Phoenix, Arizona our site is TallStreet.com, if anyone cares.
sethjohn 20y ago
I'll be 'attending'...via podcast. When I first got involved with a proto-startup (redundant?) I came across a podcast of some previous year and it was by far the best crash course in startup business I've seen. Has there only been one previous year? Other online?
chiefwhite 20y ago
Guys I missed the deadline for application. If anyone got approved but can't attend, please, I'd be very thankful to you for sharing your invite with me, I can even consider buying it! Thanks! Please drop me a few words to white@chief.la
- Sam_Odio 20y ago
  chiefwhite, last time I went (in 2005), there was absolutely no security and plenty of free chairs. Anyone could've easily shown up without being questioned... I don't know if it will be the same this year, but if you're in the area maybe you can try showing up? Who knows... if they catch you... maybe PG will appreciate your hacker-ish persistence :)
  - pg 20y ago
    Actually this year we're tightening up security a bit. Please don't just show up. It's very nice of Stanford to lend us the auditorium, and we don't want to be bad citizens. If we have too many people for the room, the campus police won't like it.
Sam_Odio 20y ago
Coming from Wash DC... Just made a wiki so we can all coordinate stuff to do and share rides: http://startup_weekend.bluwiki.com/
- omarish 20y ago
  also coming in from dc.
prashantdesale 20y ago
I'll be there. I am working on Social Marketplace called Onista. http://www.onista.com
aran 20y ago
Would anyone care to toss out an evaluation of how worthwhile it is? I want to attend, but I would be taking days off from school and traveling from east-central Canada. (Very Expensive!) Feel free to drop me an email at aran@arandonohue.com if you don't want to be public with your opinions. Thanks!
iamelgringo 20y ago
Not me... I got my rejection email yesterday. I thought I'd be more disappointed at getting turned down, but I'm not. It's actually motivated me to step out on my own. One of the big reasons that YC exists is to mentor young entrepreneurs. I would love to have a mentor, but I think that I"m going to branch out on my own to find them, instead of drowning in the crowd at Start-up school to exchange three words with Jessica or Paul. Instead, I've been considering volunteering at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View to hang out with some elder geeks. The Computer History Museum has a bunch of volunteer hardware/software hackers who restore vintage main-frames. These are all really smart hackers who have spent decades in the tech business, and they are spending time in retirement doing geek stuff, because they love it. These are the kind of people that I want to spend time with. My team and I just moved to Silicon Valley this past year, and we're setting up out entire lives around the idea of having a series of start-ups. We've driven a combined total of 12 thousand miles to get here. We're set up financially so we can afford to iterate through start-up ideas without breaking the bank. We have a great space to work in, and we're meeting a lot of cool people. I actually talked with a man a few weeks ago who knew William Shockley of Shockley Semiconductor fame. Yeah, It's been a hard road just to get to Silicon Valley. I'm sad that I didn't get in to the startup school. But, I'm sure that I'm going to get a lot more rejections throughout my career as an entrepreneur. If I wanted something easy, I'd choose a different career. I'm doing this because I enjoy the challenge. I'm doing this because I love technology. I'm doing this because I love the game, and I'm in it for the long haul.
semigeek 20y ago
I'll be there (From Cleveland, OH). Staying downtown with a rental car - left my cell number on the bluwiki site.

5 points by RyanGWU82 20y ago

I'll be there. :) -- Ryan Park, Stanford grad student

I'll be there as well. I'm looking forward to meeting the lot of you. :) We have a meetup discussion going in here: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=2757 It'd be great to meet the startup community "after school," so let's decide on a place.

jasonyan 20y ago

Count me in. :)

jamiequint 20y ago

I'll be there, just got my invite, I made a facebook group so we can all chat & talk about meeting up... http://up.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2251607090 anyone else coming from out of town? (I'm coming down from Portland, OR)

Elfan 20y ago
I'll be coming from PA.

mattculbreth 20y ago

I'll be there.

palish 20y ago

I'll be there. I'm from St Louis, MO, so it'll be refreshing to get out of the midwest ;)

wensing 20y ago

See you there (from Florida).

aristus 20y ago
Where in FL? I'm in Miami. Maybe we can meetup before or after.
- ljlolel 20y ago
  I'm in Miami too. Not sure if I can go, though. When are you flying up?
  - aristus 20y ago
    We're going out Friday morning, back on Sunday evening. Ping me, eh? There's a surprising amount of startup stuff happening in Miami. Carlos at Bueno period organization-tld

nandan 20y ago

I ll be there (from Atlanta,GA)

abstractbill 20y ago

I'll be there.

veritas 20y ago

I'll be there from Jersey.

aristus 20y ago

Coming from Miami, looking to see if I still own a coat. :) http://carlos.bueno.org/2007/03/startup-school-startup-culture.html

RMena 20y ago

I will be going! My name is Robert from Phoenix, Arizona our site is TallStreet.com, if anyone cares.

sethjohn 20y ago

I'll be 'attending'...via podcast. When I first got involved with a proto-startup (redundant?) I came across a podcast of some previous year and it was by far the best crash course in startup business I've seen. Has there only been one previous year? Other online?

chiefwhite 20y ago

Guys I missed the deadline for application. If anyone got approved but can't attend, please, I'd be very thankful to you for sharing your invite with me, I can even consider buying it! Thanks! Please drop me a few words to white@chief.la

Sam_Odio 20y ago
chiefwhite, last time I went (in 2005), there was absolutely no security and plenty of free chairs. Anyone could've easily shown up without being questioned... I don't know if it will be the same this year, but if you're in the area maybe you can try showing up? Who knows... if they catch you... maybe PG will appreciate your hacker-ish persistence :)
- pg 20y ago
  Actually this year we're tightening up security a bit. Please don't just show up. It's very nice of Stanford to lend us the auditorium, and we don't want to be bad citizens. If we have too many people for the room, the campus police won't like it.

Sam_Odio 20y ago

Coming from Wash DC... Just made a wiki so we can all coordinate stuff to do and share rides: http://startup_weekend.bluwiki.com/

omarish 20y ago
also coming in from dc.

prashantdesale 20y ago

I'll be there. I am working on Social Marketplace called Onista. http://www.onista.com

aran 20y ago

Would anyone care to toss out an evaluation of how worthwhile it is? I want to attend, but I would be taking days off from school and traveling from east-central Canada. (Very Expensive!) Feel free to drop me an email at aran@arandonohue.com if you don't want to be public with your opinions. Thanks!

iamelgringo 20y ago

Not me... I got my rejection email yesterday. I thought I'd be more disappointed at getting turned down, but I'm not. It's actually motivated me to step out on my own. One of the big reasons that YC exists is to mentor young entrepreneurs. I would love to have a mentor, but I think that I"m going to branch out on my own to find them, instead of drowning in the crowd at Start-up school to exchange three words with Jessica or Paul. Instead, I've been considering volunteering at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View to hang out with some elder geeks. The Computer History Museum has a bunch of volunteer hardware/software hackers who restore vintage main-frames. These are all really smart hackers who have spent decades in the tech business, and they are spending time in retirement doing geek stuff, because they love it. These are the kind of people that I want to spend time with. My team and I just moved to Silicon Valley this past year, and we're setting up out entire lives around the idea of having a series of start-ups. We've driven a combined total of 12 thousand miles to get here. We're set up financially so we can afford to iterate through start-up ideas without breaking the bank. We have a great space to work in, and we're meeting a lot of cool people. I actually talked with a man a few weeks ago who knew William Shockley of Shockley Semiconductor fame. Yeah, It's been a hard road just to get to Silicon Valley. I'm sad that I didn't get in to the startup school. But, I'm sure that I'm going to get a lot more rejections throughout my career as an entrepreneur. If I wanted something easy, I'd choose a different career. I'm doing this because I enjoy the challenge. I'm doing this because I love technology. I'm doing this because I love the game, and I'm in it for the long haul.

semigeek 20y ago

I'll be there (From Cleveland, OH). Staying downtown with a rental car - left my cell number on the bluwiki site.