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Startup School Final Speaker List

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I wonder: do these people follow Hacker News?

Paul Buchheit seems to visit regularly: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=paul

You may also have noticed Paul Graham: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg

I'm not aware of accounts of any of the others, though I'd be surprised if most of them hadn't heard of HN, especially the investors.

I'm not sure what I would make of the billionaire Mark Zuckerberg squandering his time by reading my useless comments.

I like how Paul Graham describes himself as a "bug fixer."

Weirdly I was just reading about an Australian version of this concept:

http://www.startupschool.com.au/

Same name but not the same concept.

Hmmm... sounds shady... $998, only ten participants, and they imply that one of the reasons the fee is that high is because they spent it on advertising?

One of the speakers founded rentoid.com - which seems pretty cool at first glance. The other apparently founded a startup that sells ideas for $423.

Actually I'm sure they're legit, but it's a ripoff compared to the real Startup School. Even if I lived in Australia, I'd still pay for a ticket and fly to California.

UI looks like 37signals home page

It's a great mix of rising stars and longtime veterans in a wide range of fields.

I know what I'll be doing this Saturday!

Following the coverage on Justin.TV in my case. Hopefully by next year I'll be able to afford to fly out to CA and experience it live.

Think it's worth it to see this kind of thing via a video link?

I'm not convinced - most of the value I get out of going to conferences is in meeting other people. If anything good or interesting gets said, it's usually all over the internet quickly in any case, meaning that I don't really need to sit there watching N hours of video.

Looks like a fun one though; YC and its offshoots are one of the few things that manage to make me miss the bay area a little bit.

Oh, absolutely. Better than nothing though, I guess. Flying out there isn't something I can do on a whim right now.

Reads like a whos who of... fill in the blank.

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