Startup School 2009
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This day I had the pleasure to attend the 2009 edition of Y-Combinator’s Startup School 2009 helded at Berkley university, California. When I read the schedule of the event I stood impressed by the names of the speakers in particular I was curious to hear Mark Zuckerberg , the creator of Facebook, and Jason Fried, from 37 Signals. The event begun with a very entertaning presentation from Paul Graham focused on determing what are the key factors of a successful startup and, more generally, what really means be a startup founder. Then it was the turn of Greg McAdoo from Sequoia Capital who gave us advices on how and when a startup need to do fund-raising.
Jason Fried tryed in his speech to demiystify some of the common sentences related to a startup business; in his opinion you don’t need to search an initial investment to start a company; that’s because if you begun with money your first thought are on how spend it (employees, fornitures, ...); but if you don’t have money you focus only on how to make money.
Next went Evan Williams and Biz Stone, founders of twitter; their interview was full of funny anecdotes and tips; one over all: In the beginning of Twitter someone said ‘twitter is fun but it’s not useful’. Ev dryly remarked: ‘so is ice cream’.
After lunch the conference continued with an interview with Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, and ended up with a party helded within the Y combinator offices !
... and we are preparing our bags to join this amazing convention hosted in Berlin.
In the next few days will make available the full version of Dave Thomas keynote at the RailsConf Europe in Berlin in streaming. We are sorry for being so late producing it, but at the moment we are very busy in building the version 1.2 of WhoDoes.
