I applied earlier, and I was trying to get my school to cover my costs there, but it turned out to be a dead end. Looks like I will have to turn my invitation down (if I ever do receive one, that is). Bummer.
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
London has 5 airports; there is also the Eurostar. If people really want to go, I'm sure they can find a way. Surely if thats too high a barrier it says something about how serious they are about founding a startup?
By the same logic they should be hosted it in Reykjavik.
Check the map. Reykjavik is much, much further from Europe and flights there cost fortune usually.
Flights to UK are really cheap and frequent.
Better comparison would be "By the same logic they should be hosted in Dublin".
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#23Why 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?
As a non EU who lives in France, I find it very difficult to go to England due to Visa issues and the high cost of living there when you do the conversion of euro to pounds. so its not a very good choice I think.
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#24Why 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…
is it really true that Israel is the biggest tech hub in Europe? (if we consider that its part of europe ) ,I always though its Berlin
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#25I 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.
I totally agree. As a college student, Startup School definitely opened up my eyes, and it was amazing to hear from people who were in a similar position as me.
I wrote up a blog post about "What I Learned at Startup School," if anyone wants to check it out: https://medium.com/@virjog/what-i-learned-at-startup-school-...
Re: Last day to apply for Startup School Europe
#26Earlier 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…
> 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 speak…
There's a significant difference with being a visitor to a foreign country (where you can just wing it) and running a several hundred person event. Something getting lost in miscommunication can easily become a big deal.
(in practice you'd hire a local events company to manage it, but still it's messier)
I'm not sure I follow your reasoning for doing it in a non-startup hub though ? - certainly you could make an argument for doing it in one of the other hubs like Berlin but doing it somewhere like Frankfurt doesn't seem to make any sense to me.
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#27Why 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?
London has 5 airports; there is also the Eurostar. If people really want to go, I'm sure they can find a way. Surely if thats too high a barrier it says something about how serious they are about founding a startup?
> London has 5 airports; there is also the Eurostar.
This. Personally, I think the parts of the world that will perform best in the future century and beyond are those that are the most connected. It's notable that London plus NYC, Dubai, Hong Kong, Beijing, Sydney etc are economically speaking doing extremely well - it's no co-incidence they are also very well connected.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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 speak…
There's a significant difference with being a visitor to a foreign country (where you can just wing it) and running a several hundred person event. Something getting lost in miscommunication can easily become a big deal. (in practice you'd hire a local events company to manage it, but still it's messier) I'm not sure I follow your reasoning for doing it in a non-startup hub though ? - certainly you could make an argu…
Frankfurt and even Hamburg are quite alive, Frankfurt is extremely central. It's an event for Europe, by doing it in London you are far away from most of Europe.
Frankfurt is a huge hub when it comes to transportation, and there are facilities right at the airport.
As for your 'miscommunication' suggestion:
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#29Some really interesting speakers, will any of the talks be put online afterwards?
Talks will be livestreamed and put online after the event.
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#30Why 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?
For what it's worth Joel Splosky looked at the numbers when he toured FogBugz and London was No1 ahead of SF and NY even. There's also 5991 members on the HNLondon meetup group. There seem a lot of tech interested types here.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/11/16.html
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