Anything planned for the Midwest?
2010 Startup School: October 16 at Stanford
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Re: 2010 Startup School: October 16 at Stanford
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#13The lack of startup school this year is a big reason why I organized the founder conference. And then I bump into pg, and ask him how come there was no startup school this year. Of course there is one, he said. We just didn't announce it yet. Now he did :-)
Will you be posting videos from the Founder Conference online?
Re: 2010 Startup School: October 16 at Stanford
#14I think the session should be live streamed or recorded and hosted somewhere for non valley people. pg?
Re: 2010 Startup School: October 16 at Stanford
#15Anything planned for the Midwest?
Re: 2010 Startup School: October 16 at Stanford
#16A few interesting new speakers this time: Andy Bechtolsheim (Sun), Ron Conway, Tom Preston-Warner (GitHub) and Brian Chesky (Airbnb).
Brian gave the student commencement address at RISD the year we graduated, it was a masterpiece, unrivaled in the annals of higher education. I have HIGH hopes for this talk.
Re: 2010 Startup School: October 16 at Stanford
#17Anything planned for the Midwest?
http://hipmunk.com
So, no then? I'm pretty sure he didn't ask his question because he was unaware of the existence of flight. Your link initially led me to believe that there is actually some other conference called Hipmunk in the Midwest, but instead it was a LetMeGoogleThatForYou.com-style flight search page.
For those of you actually interested in events in the Midwest, I can tell you that we're doing some interesting things in Cleveland that I can scrounge up more information about. Nothing conference-level that I'm aware of, but events with founders and incubators are becoming more and more frequent.
Edit: Cleveland Startup Weekend is in November and there's some sort of kickoff party in a few days. http://cleveland.startupweekend.org/
Re: 2010 Startup School: October 16 at Stanford
#18The lack of startup school this year is a big reason why I organized the founder conference. And then I bump into pg, and ask him how come there was no startup school this year. Of course there is one, he said. We just didn't announce it yet. Now he did :-)
You could have just emailed me and asked.
Here was my thought process: I had attended AngelConf last year, and wanted to see if it was going to happen again. I checked that site, and it was still the old stuff, and the time was up. So I assumed AngelConf was a one-time thing.
Later on, I wondered about startup school and did the same thing: I checked the web site, and nothing new... So my brain recognized a pattern: you guys must be too busy this year to do those conferences. So I was convinced that startup school was not happening. Therefore I didn't even think of asking you. Until I met you and asked you why you were not doing it anymore, which proves how convinced I was that my brain was smart :-)
[apologies for the long and boring explanation, but now you know - next time, I suggest putting a small link saying it's coming again in 2010, and my brain won't make the wrong inferrence]
Re: 2010 Startup School: October 16 at Stanford
#19The lack of startup school this year is a big reason why I organized the founder conference. And then I bump into pg, and ask him how come there was no startup school this year. Of course there is one, he said. We just didn't announce it yet. Now he did :-)
Will you be posting videos from the Founder Conference online?
Yes, once I figure out how to dub soundtracks...
Re: 2010 Startup School: October 16 at Stanford
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://hipmunk.com
So, no then? I'm pretty sure he didn't ask his question because he was unaware of the existence of flight. Your link initially led me to believe that there is actually some other conference called Hipmunk in the Midwest, but instead it was a LetMeGoogleThatForYou.com-style flight search page. For those of you actually interested in events in the Midwest, I can tell you that we're doing some interesting things in Clev…
I think PG hears a lot about location ("We're the YC of Alaska!", "Do we have to move if we get into YC?") and is getting tired of it. If you want to start a startup, moving to a startup hotspot will help a lot. If you want to attend cool conferences, move somewhere that frequently has cool conferences, or be willing to get on a plane for a good event.
The Midwest won't have a successful Startup School clone (at least not with speakers of this caliber) because it's not dense enough with startup people. Maybe there are enough people to make the event worthwhile in all of the Midwest, but it's such a huge area that a lot of people would still be facing very long drives or flying.
When people say "I want an event like this in ", they really mean "I want an event like this within a 2 hour drive of my house, preferably closer." They don't mean "I live in Ohio and would happily travel to Kansas for this event." If someone were to announce an event like this in, say, Minneapolis, a lot of people form Indiana and Ohio would realize that that's not what they had in mind when they asked for a Startup School clone in the Midwest.
And now PG's invested in a flight comparison startup, so just as people sometimes link to http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/, he can link to Hipmunk to say "just fucking fly here."