Can anyone who has attended a past Startup School share their experience? What's the general atmosphere of the event? Is it similar to other conferences you've attended? Does it offer value on its own merits, or is it simply a day-long sales pitch for YC?
A question in the similar category: how many people were invited to past Startup School? Less than one hundred? In the hundreds?
Googling reveals 750 attendees:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eU-e6C9...
No idea how many applied, of course. Given the HN audience, it could have been thousands.