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Resource: Notes from Startup School workshops

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Want to read some free advice from some of the most noted technology entrepreneurs of today? Check out the notes from Startup School, 2006.

Some of the speakers and their topics included:

  • Joe Kraus: “Startup Addict”
  • Page Mailliard (Wilson Sonsini): “Steps to set up a company”
  • Mark Fletcher (Bloglines): “Lessons Learned Birthing and Building Web Start-ups”
  • Ann Winblad (venture capitalist specializing in software): “How to write a fundable business plan”
  • George A. Willman: “Patents”
  • Tim O’Reilly: “Open Source”
  • Paul Graham (Y Combinator): “The hardest lessons for startups to learn”
  • Caterina Fake (Flickr): “On the internet, strangers are the source of everything good.”
  • Om Malik (Business 2.0): “What makes a startup work from a journalist’s perspective.”
  • Chris Sacca (Google). Head of Special Initiatives
  • Joshua Schachter (del.icio.us)

Read notes taken during the event, view presentation slides and listen to MP3s, and check the blog coverage. All together, it is as close to reviewing the live event as you can get. And it’s all online, and free.

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About Becky McCray

Becky started Small Biz Survival in 2006 to share rural business and community building stories and ideas with other small town business people. She and her husband have a small cattle ranch and are lifelong entrepreneurs. Becky is an international speaker on small business and rural topics.

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