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Ask YC: Startup school?
Has YC sent out confirmations for startup school yet? I haven't received mine yet!
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- sudeepjuvekar 18y agoNothing yet :-(
- pg 18y agoWill everyone please relax? It's still the 27th here in California. Trevor's finishing reading the applications. We'll send out responses tonight.
- nurall 18y agothx pg, sorry for jumping the gun
- sudeepjuvekar 18y agoYups... thanks pg...
- tonyvt2005 18y agoI'm curious about the number of applicants vs number accepted. Has the number of applicants gone up dramatically each year?
- pg 18y agoActually it was slightly lower this year. 1108 vs around 1200 last year. We hate rejecting people, and since we always have more applicants than there are seats for, we deliberately made little effort to promote it. We didn't ask Techcrunch to write about it, and I even took the links off my site several days before the deadline. Because there was so little marketing, the quality of the average applicant was extremely high. 90% were pretty solid hackers.
- johns 18y agoI'm assuming since Kresge only holds about 600 people, that's about how many attendees were accepted (give or take a little bit for cancelations).
- sripathi 18y agoIt will be the first ever that I plan to attend. So, I hope I get an invite soon.
- raghus 18y agoJust got the ok!
- walterk 18y agoSame here! Woot!
- tandaraho 18y agosame here!
- hooande 18y agosame here!
- vikas5678 18y agoyippiee! My first time :).
- tonyvt2005 18y agomine too, I'm really looking forward to it :)
- RyanGWU82 18y agoSame here. :)
- abstractwater 18y agojust got it too! I'm old, but very excited. :)
- cstejerean 18y agoI just booked my flight, looking for somewhere to stay Friday night.
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- zain 18y agoJust got the response (11:46pm PST). I'm in, woo hoo!
- kyro 18y agoBid starts at $500.
- arooni 18y agoFor those who are attending, please consider adding to the wiki (http://wiki.startupschool.org/doku.php?id= http://wiki.startupschool.org/doku.php?id=). Additionally, I've created two pages that I strongly encourage you to fill out for your own benefit: http://wiki.startupschool.org/doku.php?id=list_of_startups_projects_of_attendees http://wiki.startupschool.org/doku.php?id=list_of_startups_p... and http://wiki.startupschool.org/doku.php?id=list_of_people_attending_startup_school http://wiki.startupschool.org/doku.php?id=list_of_people_att... Speaking from experience @ Startup School '07, we all know the speakers and their projects, but we don't know much about fellow attendees. Let's help change that.
- rantfoil 18y agoSuggestion: Make a simple web app to support the "attendee directory" -- This way you can do sorting, etc. later when/if the list gets huge. There appear to be some sort of 15-minute or longer lock times for modifications on the doku wiki page for attendees. Message me if you'd like help building it.
- wallflower 18y agoIt sounds like this year's Startup School is going to be active beyond the main event (the speakers) and going to be more of a Startup School Weekend. Excellent!
- hooande 18y agoIs the news.yc meetup still on for that weekend? I've heard there was something planned for the friday night before Startup School.
- iamelgringo 18y agoI'm trying to put something together. I'll post details on the wiki.
- timr 18y agoAnyone from Seattle going?
- edw519 18y agoGot my invite, too. Very excited. Thanks, Trevor for getting through those applications. I can only imagine what that must have been like. Thanks, pg and the rest of the people who are making this possible. I know you must get a lot of virtual "thank yous"; I want to add my explicit thank you. What you are doing is a wonderful thing. Imagine, being able to change the lives of other people in one day. I plan to be one of them. Can't wait!
- mrtron 18y agoNo email OR plane ticket... (remake of bad joke from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=136953 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=136953)
- rbanffy 18y agoAnd, for those unlucky ones that, for reasons well beyond the scope of this comment, won't be able to attend, would it be possible to have the presentations and any other materials recorded and published TED-style?
- abstractbill 18y agoJustin.tv will be streaming the whole event live (which means everything will also be archived).
- shellab 18y agoI got the invite this morning!
- aggieben 18y agoI'm curious - has YC ever thought about doing startup school in other locations? I'd love to do startup school (just like I'd love to apply to YC), but a startup school here in Dallas would be more beneficial to me because it would attract others like me from my area. Maybe YC could incubate an incubator for DFW :-)
- dustineichler 18y agoFAIL! I'd love to know the criteria or the background of most of the candidates who were chosen. I'm a little surprised I was rejected. Someone from YCombinator want to relieve my frustration? I'll admit my application was thin, but no less talented than most. Maybe looking for a ticket if it's allowed.
- modoc 18y agoGeneral Advice Needed: This will be my first startupschool and I am quite excited. I'm flying in the night before, but how long after the 5:30 event end do people hang out? I'm trying to figure out when I should book my return flight (what time that night or the next day). I don't want to miss out on any networking and meet-up opportunities. From previous year's blog coverage, everyone brings their laptop, but is there anything else I should definitely bring/have/not have/etc...? Any tips or info for first timers? Thanks!
- obelix 18y agoMy application got rejected. May be I shouldn't have said my company's name :).