Here at SXSW, and I had the pleasure to attend the "Life After YC" session with Brian Chesky (Airbnb), Dane Hurtubise (JobSpice), Drew Houston (Dropbox), and Jessica Mah (inDinero). It was fantastic. More than any other session, I felt like I was among peers. I got thinking, screw SXSW, we need a HN Conference. Or at least a HN track at SXSW.<p>Make it hacker-oriented, with technical and startup topics, invite the YC partners, maybe current and former batch founders to speak, maybe some angels, maybe help for people interested in applying, maybe a hack day? Who'd be interested?
Sounds quite similiar to startup school, which I would highly recommend<p>While the speaker at startup school are generally the big name guys, lots of the YC founders are around during that time.