Y Combinator Startup School expands to NYC, offering entrepreneurs a chance to learn from successful founders and investors and join a community of startup doers.

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  Startup School is being held in New York City for the first time.
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  The speaker welcomes the audience and acknowledges those who traveled to attend the event in New York City.
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  Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, participated in the first Y Combinator Startup School in 2005, which aimed to provide early stage founders with insight from their peers in an approachable and helpful way.
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  Be with people who are doing startups, not just talking about it, as the audience is filled with individuals doing cool stuff.
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  Take advantage of the intermission discussions and enjoy the talks, despite the World Cup distraction, as you are the right kind of founders.
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  28 Y Combinator companies are now based in New York, including Amicus, Hacker School, One Month Rails, Viable, Rant Hop, Weave, Rocket Trip, Parse, Scribd, and Startup School.
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  The speaker emphasizes the importance of something after visiting 80 universities across the country.
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  Entrepreneurship is thriving among students who are taking initiative to learn, code and build, and we are fortunate to have access to these opportunities in the new economy and technology age.