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Startup school application open for business
- ojbyrne 17y agoI'm feeling the urge to apply. I'm 49 years old, but a big believer in lifelong education. I also feel the urge to mention hammers in the "what tools do you like" box.
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- alanthonyc 17y agoDo it. So I'll know I'm not the oldest.
- babul 17y agoOK, a 20-something with less life experience may benefit more from the event than a 40-something, and be more likely to actually do a startup (having generally fewer commitments etc.), but hopefully they won't use age to rule people out if they have a technical background and genuine desire to do a startup even later in life.
- ojbyrne 17y agoI have no commitments. Though I might have different risk-tolerance. However I'm not entirely sure that's a bad thing.
- donw 17y agoDamn, forgot to include my Leatherman...
- pg 17y agoYou guys are pretty fast. I managed to get the newly rewritten application form onto the server this morning, but then I was busy all day talking to startups about their Demo Day presentations. I'm going to try to get the startupschool.org site updated this evening.
- pg 17y agoOk, here it is: http://startupschool.org http://startupschool.org.
- kabuks 17y agoOne of my favorite secret tools: http://www.changedetection.com/ http://www.changedetection.com/ let's you track pages, and emails you once they change. Not sure what their revenue model is, but it's let me get in first on many occasions. Very handy.
- reitzensteinm 17y agoTheir revenue model could be to put paid users at the front of the queue. Pay more for guaranteed karma!
- kabuks 17y agoCould be. I think the free service only checks once a day. I would pay for a more frequent check.
- lyime 17y agoWhen is it?
- pg 17y agoOctober 24, in Berkeley.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agoSweet, I have a free plane ticket I've been saving for Startup School (I gave my seat up and got a voucher). Berkeley will be a good venue too.
- naz 17y agoAny speakers announced yet?
- naz 17y agoThe updated site has a list: http://www.startupschool.org/speakers.html http://www.startupschool.org/speakers.html 2009 Speakers (so far) Chris Anderson Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine Paul Buchheit Founder, FriendFeed; Creator of GMail Jason Fried Founder, 37signals Paul Graham Partner, Y Combinator; Founder, Viaweb Tony Hsieh CEO, Zappos; Founder, LinkExchange Mitchell Kapor President, Open Source Applications Foundation; Founder, Lotus Greg McAdoo Partner, Sequoia Capital Mark Zuckerberg Founder, Facebook
- PStamatiou 17y agoJust submitted.. hope I get in! This is the first year I'm out of school and can actually fly out for something like this, and now that I'm right in the middle of my startup journey, it would make more sense than ever.
- abi 17y agoHow long will the application be open? (This might sound like a redundant question but I was going to ask some friends to apply that I can't contact immediately)
- jl 17y agoIt will be open for at least another month.
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- dzlobin 17y agoIs there any word on roughly how many people apply for each seat?
- AmericanOP 17y agoWould it be in bad taste if we aren't accepted to camp out in hopes of no-shows?
- donw 17y agoI think that would be very much in the spirit of entrepreneurship, and what I was planning to do. :)