Startup School 2008 is one of the initiatives sponsored by the YC folks. This time it was held on 19th April and the guest talks featured some of the most eminent folks of our industry including Jeff Bezos, Paul Graham, DHH, Michael Arrington and Marc Andreessen. The videos are available at justin.tv and omnisio. The talks that are available at omnisio are great, the video and audio quality is good and the presentation slides are clear. However, after nearly half of the presentation the talks seem to get stuck. So I would advice you to use the justin.tv to listen to the talks and use omnisio to look at the presentation slides.
Though I have not looked at all the videos myself but the talk by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), the creator of Rails is a must listen to and seems to be the best of the lot. While all the other guests were stressing on how to pitch to the VC's and raising funds and how to be bought by the googles and yahoos, DHH went the complete opposite way and talked about how to build a business that sustains itself by charging the customers for the service. DHH is a great communicator and puts across his views really well with some slick slides. And hence his talks are always enjoyable. The links for DHH talk are here for justin.tv and here for omnisio.
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