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The speaker list is just those confirmed so far. It will grow as we get closer to the event.

Any chance of live streaming the event this year?

Seconded. Being in Canada means I can't easily fly all the way to Stanford.

If you get accepted, it's definitely worth flying in for. It's something I believe everyone should experience, especially if you're thinking about creating or joining a startup. More for the social aspects than the content.

Damn our Canadian transportation system! My friend and I are planning on sleddogging down. Haha, we're actually planning a road trip for this if you don't mind driving with strangers and are in the lower AB/BC province we might be able to drive you--if you don't carry around an axe and stuff that is.

Canada? Easy compared to being in New Zealand! :P Sounds like an amazing event though, will certainly have to watch the live stream.

We'll probably stream it via justin.tv like we usually do.

Are the older editions archived? Is there a public link? Thx

Yes: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/videos

See also http://www.youtube.com/startupschool for the 2008 videos. Omnisio's versions had the speakers' slides, but those seem to be lost.

We have information about previous startup schools (including some videos) on Lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/series/startup-school/

Can get get negative confirmations? Will Quora guy be speaking? That presentation was painful to sit through last year. His advice boiled down to "have rich friends and tag along for the ride."

Reid is another tricky one. He has so much useful information, but his presentation last year was almost incoherent. It looked like he was running late for class and tried to prepare his presentation on-the-fly with no organization.

That was such a nasty comment that initially I couldn't even understand what you were asking.

Sorry for my unfortunate tone.

I was lamenting the lack of preparedness of a minority of speakers. Most people gave world class presentations, but a minority had a perceived lack of preparation.

With people traveling half way around the world, it seems disrespectful to have speakers fumbling on stage.

You probably could have written that in a much more constructive manner.

To be fair, it is a free event.

Doesn't read so nasty, though perhaps a bit negative. The question that springs to mind, is the comment true?

The quality of the speakers last year was mixed, but none of the speakers were a waste of time. Some of the talks I found least interesting (i.e. GitHub) others said were the best of StartupSchool.

I liked Adam D'Angelo's talk. Adam was nervous, but that's okay- I would be too. Not everyone is Dhh. And he didn't say "have rich friends". His message was that if you want to start a startup, thing about going to work at an early stage startup for a year or two first. You will learn what it takes, meet potential co-founders, meet vc's, learn the business side of things.

I don't remember what Reid's talk was on, but I do remember it being one of my favorites.

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