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1. YC Startup School 2016 Info
Presented by Ofa
@2016.8.10

2. Agenda
My Experience
YC Startup School
Silicon Innovation Safari
Summary

3. My Experience
2013 YC Startup School
2015 SDR workshop +
TC Disrupt SF
2016 Silicon Valley
Innovation Safari

4. YC Startup School
An one-day event that
attracts entrepreneurs
from all over the world
Learn from the smartest
founders in Silicon Valley
Meet those passionate
people like you

5. YC Startup School 2016
Date & Time: Sep 17th, 9:30AM-7:30PM
Location: Flint Center@Cupertino
Speakers:
Marc Andreessen · Founder, a16z
Kalam Dennis and Reham Fagiri · Founders,
AptDeco
Ooshma Garg · Founder, Gobble
Reid Hoffman · Founder, LinkedIn
Gabe Leydon · Founder, Machine Zone
Ben Silbermann · Founder, Pinterest
Application due: Aug 15

6. YC Startup School: Apply
Step 1. Create a Hacker News
account
Step 2. Fill in the application form
Basic info
Company info
Personal website / LinkedIn
Personal project
Step 3. Wait and prepare

7. Silicon Valley Innovation Safari
About 2 weeks doing city
tour in SF, company visit,
and workshops in Berkeley
or Stanford
Cost around
2000~3000USD including
flight ticket
Real experience living with
the startup teams from all
over the world
Silicon Valley Innovation Safari
April 2016
@Zero: Twitter micro
service architecture
@Jack: Uber’s vision
@LingLing: One day
in Drap U
@Kuan-Yu: Hacker’s
Way
@Cat: Google
Engineering
@Cheng-Fu: Apple
design validation
@Steve: Connecting
Taiwan
@Andreas: Social
Data Revolution
Executive Summary
Presented by Chung-Hsiang Ofa Hsueh

8. Silicon Valley Innovation Safari
Fork-> Silicon Trip
if(YC_startup_school_gr
anted) > 3
SVIS again!
reduce our cost by
car sharing and
cooking
RoomToHack
•Gather data
•Build metrics
•Produce knowledge
Investors
•Invest the matched
•Provide boost program
•Get stock options
Partners
•Provide the infrastructures
•Get promoted
•Get stock options

9. Summary
5 days left to apply!
Do not worry about to go or not, just apply(You can
decide once you get granted)
Extra value = after party & the safari
One of the best way to create successful startups is to
live in the future, do not only live in Taiwan.

10. Reference
Google:
Silicon Trip: http://silicontrip.cf/
More about YC and Paul Graham: https://
ofafa.wordpress.com