On September 8, I was casually reading one of Paul Graham's many eloquent essays when I noticed a link with the text Startup School. I arrived at a simple page that said:
Are you a hacker who has thought about one day starting a startup? Then you're invited to a free, one-day startup school this October 15 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
We'll have range of experts speaking on all the things you need to know to start a company: where to get ideas for startups; what to look for in a co-founder; how to get funding; how to incorporate a company; patent and intellectual property law; how to build something users will like; what can go wrong in a startup; what acquirers look for; and how the acquisition process works.
I skimmed the text and had to think all of 5 seconds before I found my self filling the application form with my nano-CV:
I then promptly forgot about it, until last September 27, when an email arrived which started
"Thanks for applying to the startup school. We're happy to report you've been accepted."
Tears of joy ran down my cheeks - well, actually they didn't, but I was really thrilled to discover I was one of the lucky 500 people selected for this unique and FREE event. I booked a flight from Lisbon to Boston that same day - now I just have to find somewhere to sleep in Boston from Oct 14 to Oct 17.
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