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I’m probably a little late in writing a summary about Startup School 2009, but this is one of my favorite events of the whole entire year. I’ve been to Startup School twice (2008 and 2009) and the agenda both times has had some of the highest quality speakers in the shortest period of time, and some of the highest quality attendees from all around the country.

For everyone not familiar with Startup School, it’s an annual conference put on by YCombinator, Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, and BASES. There is not official description of the event on their website http://startupschool.org/ but basically its an invite only full day conference which brings together some of the top startup entrepreneurs of our times http://startupschool.org/speakers.html and brings together a diverse mix of geeks, technical founders, and aspiring entrepreneurs (very much the YCombinator crowd)

Below are a collection of videos, pictures, reactions, summaries, and press about the event.

My favorite talk by Jason Fried from 37 Signals


Here is a collection of videos from all the speakers on Justin.tv
http://www.justin.tv/startupschool

High quality pictures of all the speakers from Gary Tan
http://garry.posterous.com/yc-startup-school-2009-thanks-to-yc-and-the-s

Awesome summary of all the speakers talk by Mark Bao
http://journal.markbao.com/2009/10/startup-school-2009-summary/

Official Startup School Wiki
http://wiki.startupschool.org/doku.php?id=start

TechCrunch Coverage
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/10/29/startup-school-2009-37-signals-has-some-lessons-for-european-startups/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/24/startup-school-ev-williams-and-biz-stone/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/24/startup-school-tony-hsieh-on-delivering-happiness/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/24/startup-school-sequoias-greg-mcadoo-on-the-opportunities-of-a-recession/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/24/startup-school-paul-buchheit-on-why-he-sold-to-facebook/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/24/startup-school-an-interview-with-mark-zuckerberg/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/24/startup-school-wired-editor-chris-anderson-on-freemium-business-models/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/24/startup-school-mark-pincus-talks-about-becoming-a-great-ceo-with-tony-robbins-help/