The First YC Conference

@pg I think a great one would be "b2b customer acquisition". This was one of those things that we realized was CRAZY HARD and (anecdotally) I've heard a few other YC startups who have run into this wall. Stuff like inside vs. outside sales, lead generation techniques, hiring salesfolks, adwords, etc.<p>Of course this stuff only applies to maybe 25% of YC companies out of the gates (tho eventually, even the consumer plays have to hire ad-sales guys).

Now I want to do YC just to get into these conferences.

It was a blast-- as a panelist I learned a lot from Rand (who lives and breaths SEO).<p>Check out his post and certainly check out: <a href="http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors" rel="nofollow">http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors</a> - it's the most definitive work on ranking factors out there. Once you grok that, it's all about psychology-- figure out what would motivate the "linkerati" to link to you (and tweet about you).

The conference was incredibly useful. I'm looking forward to more of these.

Will these conferences be recorded, such that they're available for YC Summer 2010 companies and beyond?<p>I understand that people want to keep things private, and not talk to the whole world, but assuming YC continues to do well, there will be scores of companies for years to come. It would be valuable to have access to the presentations for the incoming class.

The powerpoint is really good:<p><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/27319437/SEO-for-Startups-YCombinator-February-2010" rel="nofollow">http://www.scribd.com/doc/27319437/SEO-for-Startups-YCombina...</a>

What is 'referral traffic'? :/

Was the conference recorded?<p>If not, I'm sure everyone here would love to watch the next one on uStream. If not, what are the reasons it shouldn't be streamed?

I would pay money to attend such a thing. Is this open to the public, or invite only? Not a whole lot of details listed here.

I wonder if this will eventually turn into a launch event for YC start-ups