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Last day to apply for Startup School Europe
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Re: Last day to apply for Startup School Europe
#12Why London? Wouldn't it make more sense to have it organized in a mainland city such as Berlin or Paris where many more Europeans can easily get to?
I imagine the factors that came into play: 1) It's an major English speaking city with a culture many of the YC partners are comfortable with. Running an event in a country with a foreign language and culture is hard . 2) It's well connected with flights from pretty much every major city in Europe and has direct flights from SF & NY. Not only for attendees but also for convincing speakers to attend. 3) It's by far th…
> It's an major English speaking city with a culture many of the YC partners are comfortable with. Running an event in a country with a foreign language and culture is hard.
There is no major European city where you could not get by with just English.
> It's well connected with flights from pretty much every major city in Europe and has direct flights from SF & NY. Not only for attendees but also for convincing speakers to attend.
But there are better cities for that purpose: Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris.
> 3) It's by far the biggest startup/tech hub in Europe (excluding Israel) and YC is very pro-hub (one of the reasons YC moved from Boston to SF).
That is actually an excellent reason to do it somewhere else.
Really, missed opportunity.
Re: Last day to apply for Startup School Europe
#13Some really interesting speakers, will any of the talks be put online afterwards?
Re: Last day to apply for Startup School Europe
#14Why London? Wouldn't it make more sense to have it organized in a mainland city such as Berlin or Paris where many more Europeans can easily get to?
I imagine the factors that came into play: 1) It's an major English speaking city with a culture many of the YC partners are comfortable with. Running an event in a country with a foreign language and culture is hard . 2) It's well connected with flights from pretty much every major city in Europe and has direct flights from SF & NY. Not only for attendees but also for convincing speakers to attend. 3) It's by far th…
Israel is not in Europe.
Re: Last day to apply for Startup School Europe
#15After applying it told me to record my password. I had been given no password so I do not really understand whether it worked or not.
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#16I recently attended the Startup School in New York (18th of June). It exceeded my expectations in every way. I highly recommend this to everyone.
I thought the quality and breadth of the NY lineup was excellent. Each speaker gave honest, entertaining, and insightful talks about their experiences working with/founding startups.
Re: Last day to apply for Startup School Europe
#17After applying it told me to record my password. I had been given no password so I do not really understand whether it worked or not.
I think that text is for the benefit of people who just registered a YC account to go through registration - which is obviously not us.
Re: Last day to apply for Startup School Europe
#18Why London? Wouldn't it make more sense to have it organized in a mainland city such as Berlin or Paris where many more Europeans can easily get to?
I imagine the factors that came into play: 1) It's an major English speaking city with a culture many of the YC partners are comfortable with. Running an event in a country with a foreign language and culture is hard . 2) It's well connected with flights from pretty much every major city in Europe and has direct flights from SF & NY. Not only for attendees but also for convincing speakers to attend. 3) It's by far th…
Running an event in a country with a foreign language and culture is hard.
Getting a bit off-topic, but this is no longer really true in a lot of Europe. I haven't tried organizing an event in France without speaking French, but it is perfectly easy to organize an event in Denmark without speaking Danish. So many events are organized by multinational organizers that doing all the organization in English is not only possible, but becoming the default.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I imagine the factors that came into play: 1) It's an major English speaking city with a culture many of the YC partners are comfortable with. Running an event in a country with a foreign language and culture is hard . 2) It's well connected with flights from pretty much every major city in Europe and has direct flights from SF & NY. Not only for attendees but also for convincing speakers to attend. 3) It's by far th…
Israel is not in Europe.
hahaha
Their Europe expert is even worse than their Afghanistan expert!
We sure put dumb people on those boats.
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I do wish everyone the best of luck :)
Re: Last day to apply for Startup School Europe
#20Why London? Wouldn't it make more sense to have it organized in a mainland city such as Berlin or Paris where many more Europeans can easily get to?
I live in Germany, near Frankfurt, and I'm comfortable with tech events being in London. The preferred way to get to major European cities is by airplane anyway, so it really doesn't make any difference travel-wise if something happens in Paris, Berlin, or London.
I do think London is the best choice though since it's guaranteed to be an English-speaking setting and as far as I can tell it's the most influential startup hub in Europe.