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Startup School

Om and I attended Startup School last Saturday, a one-day event at Stanford organized by seed funders Y Combinator. Entrepreneurs shared lessons learned in between sessions from supportive services such as lawyers, venture capitalists, and a journalist.

Did we learn anything? Lawyers are excited about the many new patent opportunities for startups, a supposedly necessary tool to bargain against the patents of others. Moonlighting as an entrepreneur is in, creating new prototypes with a low burn-rate. Y Combinator provides seed money to young entrepreneurs, enough for about 3 months of development.

Om and I discuss our favorite and least favorite speeches from Startup School and some of the entrepreneurs we met along the way. What does it take to be a successful startup in 2006? Are you building your company around a product or a feature? What does it take to get the attention of a journalist?

This week's PodSession, Startup School, is 24 minutes in length, a 11 MB download.

Posted by Niall Kennedy">Niall Kennedy on May 1, 2006 8:18 AM |

Comments

hi guys,

y'all know where we can find podcasts of all the speakers? ideally, video?

thanks.

Posted by: Peter | May 9, 2006 9:15 PM

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