So, who's going to Startup School?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3086

by RyanGWU82 • 19 years ago

5 26 19 years ago

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RyanGWU82• 19 years ago

I'll be there. :)

-- Ryan Park, Stanford grad student

danielha• 19 years 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• 19 years ago

Count me in. :)

jamiequint• 19 years 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• 19 years ago

I'll be coming from PA.

mattculbreth• 19 years ago

I'll be there.

palish• 19 years ago

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

wensing• 19 years ago

See you there (from Florida).

aristus3• 19 years ago

Where in FL? I'm in Miami. Maybe we can meetup before or after.

ljlolel• 19 years ago

I'm in Miami too. Not sure if I can go, though. When are you flying up?

nandan• 19 years ago

I ll be there (from Atlanta,GA)

abstractbill• 19 years ago

I'll be there.

veritas• 19 years ago

I'll be there from Jersey.

aristus3• 19 years 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• 19 years ago

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

sethjohn• 19 years 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• 19 years 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_Odio2• 19 years 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• 19 years 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_Odio2• 19 years 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• 19 years ago

also coming in from dc.

prashantdesale• 19 years ago

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

aran• 19 years 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• 19 years 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• 19 years ago

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

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