Y-combinator’s Startup School notes from October 15, 2005
On October 15th, 2005, I was fortunate enough to attend a day-long lecture on creating a successful online startup company, hosted by [Paul Graham’s]()http://paulgraham.com) [Y-Combinator](http://ycombinator.com/). The lecture was held at Harvard University, Cambridge MA, and was only open to those who had applied & recieved an invite.
The agenda:
* 9:00 Langley Steinert, Co-Founder, [TripAdvisor](http://www.tripadvisor.com/)
* 9:30 Marc Hedlund, Entrepreneur in Residence, [O’Reilly Media](http://www.oreilly.com)
* 10:00 Qi Lu, VP of Engineering, [Yahoo!](htttp://yahoo.com)
* 10:30 Break
* 10:45 Hutch Fishman, CFO, [cMarket](http://www.cmarket.com/); CFO, [Veveo](http://veveo.tv/)
* 11:15 Paul Graham, Partner, [Y Combinator](http://ycombinator.com/)
* 11:45 David Cavanaugh, Partner, [Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr](http://www.wilmerhale.com)
* 12:15 Lunch
* 1:30 Michael Mandel, Chief Economist, [BusinessWeek](businessweek.com)
* 2:00 Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder, [Apple Computer](http://apple.com)
* 2:30 Stephen Wolfram, Founder, [Wolfram Research](http://wolfram.com)
* 3:00 Stan Reiss, General Partner, [Matrix](http://matrixpartners.com)
* 3:30 Break
* 3:45 Mark Macenka, Partner, [Goodwin Procter](http://goodwinprocter.com)
* 4:15 Chris Sacca, Principal, New Business Development, [Google](http://google.com)
* 4:45 Olin Shivers Associate Professor, Georgia Tech; Co-Founder, [Smartleaf](http://smartleaf.com)
* 5:30 Sam Altman, Steve Huffman, Justin Kan, Mikhail Ledvich, Alexis Ohanian, Emmett Shear, Zak Stone, Aaron Swartz, 2005 Summer Founders (responsible for sites like [Reddit](http://reddit.com/), [Kiko](http://kiko.com), and [Infogami](http://infogami.com/).
Here are my notes from the event (52 K zipped file). Notes were taken using the amazing social collaborate notetaking tool [SubEthaEdit](http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/), which allowed a group of attendees to work on the same notes using an ad-hoc wifi network. As a result, I can’t take the credit for all of the notes. The SubEthaEdit notetakers were:
* [Beau Hartshorne](http://hartshorne.ca)
* [Jarrod Trainque](http://trainque.com)
* Jack Bennett
* Greg Barchard
* [Alex Krupp](http://alexkrupp.com)
* [PJ Hyett](http://pjhyett.com)
* [Carl Tashian](http://www.tashian.com/carl)
* Scott Brenner
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