San Francisco (Finally!)
This is another update for my mom, who's been pestering me for a while about my weekend at Startup School :)
Startup School was a weekend "conference" that we attended in the San Francisco bay area. The event's sponsored by YCombinator, and pretty popular amongst the hacker/startup circles.
During the trip we wrote (and took photos) of our experiences. I've decided I'll post once daily for the next 4 days (Fri - Mon), discussing each day's events at Startup School. Here's what happened on Friday:
Friday
2AM: Leave Charlottesville, after getting no sleep. I pick up Omar, and drive home to Herndon to meet Ben. All three of us leave from my place to get to the airport by 4:30.
6AM: Plane leaves, we're off!
11AM (PST): After 8 hours of flying, we finally get in. Immediately search for free WIFI, and some plugs (withdrawal sucks). Find local Paneras. Yay.
Afternoon: We spend the afternoon getting settled with Ryan Park, an awesome dude who's going to let us crash at his place all weekend. (Thanks, Ryan!)
6PM: We head over to the Startup School reception, while Ryan grabs dinner with some other schoolers. At the reception we bumps into some cool people, including a bunch of the users from News.YC (which I'm pretty active on). It was fun to put faces to names. The highlight of the night, though, is Dexter - a humanoid robot from Anybots.
Here's a video of Dexter jumping - which as far as I know, is a first for any humanoid robot:
Startup School was a weekend "conference" that we attended in the San Francisco bay area. The event's sponsored by YCombinator, and pretty popular amongst the hacker/startup circles.
During the trip we wrote (and took photos) of our experiences. I've decided I'll post once daily for the next 4 days (Fri - Mon), discussing each day's events at Startup School. Here's what happened on Friday:
Friday
2AM: Leave Charlottesville, after getting no sleep. I pick up Omar, and drive home to Herndon to meet Ben. All three of us leave from my place to get to the airport by 4:30.
6AM: Plane leaves, we're off!
11AM (PST): After 8 hours of flying, we finally get in. Immediately search for free WIFI, and some plugs (withdrawal sucks). Find local Paneras. Yay.
Afternoon: We spend the afternoon getting settled with Ryan Park, an awesome dude who's going to let us crash at his place all weekend. (Thanks, Ryan!)
6PM: We head over to the Startup School reception, while Ryan grabs dinner with some other schoolers. At the reception we bumps into some cool people, including a bunch of the users from News.YC (which I'm pretty active on). It was fun to put faces to names. The highlight of the night, though, is Dexter - a humanoid robot from Anybots.
Here's a video of Dexter jumping - which as far as I know, is a first for any humanoid robot:
posted by Sam Odio at 12:54 PM
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