Everyone’s been talking today about Startup School , Paul Graham’s one-day event for software “hackers” with an entrepreneurial spirit. Acceptance emails were sent out last night, and I got in! 
So I’ll be trekking up to Harvard University on Saturday, October 15.
I bought my airline ticket last night. The only cost-effective option was to fly up and back all on the 15th. (Cambridge hotels are starting at $269 that weekend! And the rest of Boston isn’t much better.) Fortunately I got a pretty decent airfare, so it looks like it’ll work out OK. I just hope the event is over by 7:30 PM or so — I’ll miss whatever’s after that.
Keith Casey, another DC-area resident (and Joel on Software fanatic) was also accepted. Keith has put up a page for people to coordinate travel plans. I suspect Keith’s page will be usurped by the official Startup School Wiki.
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Way to Go Ryan
Ryan Park is going to Startup School! I hear Steve Wozniak is a speaker. I WANNA GO TOO… but I’ll stick with Philosophy for the time being. Enjoy Boston, Ryan.
Glad to hear you’ve finally got to Harvard!!
When your startup gets off the ground, please keep me in mind for any jobs that are highly paid but don’t involve any actual work. :0)
Thanks, I didn’t see that they had it online so was just trying to get some conversation going. I may end up doing the flight thing too. For $40 and saving quite a bit of time, it makes lots of sense.
Also, *if* I do end up doing the flight and you need access back to the Metro system, my wife has already agreed to pick me/us up and drop you at Dunn Loring Metro. It will save you a trip on the Washington Flyer ($8 and 20-30+ minutes).
I’m trying to finalize in the next 48 hours or so.
Yay for Ryan. I’m jealous that you get to go to Boston. And your site is by far the coolest I have ever seen
NOICE!
Congratulations, hope you enjoy it.
As for hotels, try the Route 9 corridor (Natick/Wellesley/Newton … or farther out to Framingham)
You could also try up north to Reading/Salem, or even Lowell, but I would avoid Medford (pronounced Meffa), Winchester, Arlington and Malden.
Brookline might also work. Good luck.
See you there
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