As far as cheap places to stay, I stayed at this hostel for a little over a week last year: http://www.sanfranciscohostel.org/ http://www.sanfranciscohostel.or

As far as cheap places to stay, I stayed at this hostel for a little over a week last year: http://www.sanfranciscohostel.org/ http://www.sanfranciscohostel.org/ Only cost around 200 bucks for 10 nights. Met a lot of cool folks from out of the country and had a blast. Went to Startup School one weekend, and went to the free portion of the Web 2.0 conference the other weekend. If you go this route, bring some earplugs :)