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Y-combinator’s Startup School notes from October 15, 2005
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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’shttp://paulgraham.com) Y-Combinator. 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
- 9:30 Marc Hedlund, Entrepreneur in Residence, O’Reilly Media
- 10:00 Qi Lu, VP of Engineering, Yahoo!
- 10:30 Break
- 10:45 Hutch Fishman, CFO, cMarket; CFO, Veveo
- 11:15 Paul Graham, Partner, Y Combinator
- 11:45 David Cavanaugh, Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
- 12:15 Lunch
- 1:30 Michael Mandel, Chief Economist, BusinessWeek
- 2:00 Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder, Apple Computer
- 2:30 Stephen Wolfram, Founder, Wolfram Research
- 3:00 Stan Reiss, General Partner, Matrix
- 3:30 Break
- 3:45 Mark Macenka, Partner, Goodwin Procter
- 4:15 Chris Sacca, Principal, New Business Development, Google
- 4:45 Olin Shivers Associate Professor, Georgia Tech; Co-Founder, Smartleaf
- 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, Kiko, and Infogami.
Here are my notes from the event (52 K zipped file). Notes were taken using the amazing social collaborate notetaking tool 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
- Jarrod Trainque
- Jack Bennett
- Greg Barchard
- Alex Krupp
- PJ Hyett
- Carl Tashian
- Scott Brenner
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