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1982 Sun
1984 Cisco
1994 Yahoo
1998 Google, VMware
Rightly or wrongly, I interpreted the article as being about current startups, e.g. since the last bubble. It seems a lot more accurate in that context. Of course there are exceptions - "MIT" startups on the west coast and "Stanford" startups in the east - but the more important point is about the models themselves rather than the catchy monikers.
Many luminaries including Peter Thiel have been saying this but I see a little bit of a contradiction while comparing their statements to their backgrounds. Peter Thiel, for example, went to Stanford undergrad and law school. Chris Dixon has an MA from Columbia. PG has a PhD from Harvard etc...I'm also wondering if the reverse is happening in the startup world where investors see you unfavorably if you're not a 19 year old college dropout but instead have an advanced degree. In addition, like the previous poster pointed out, credentialism exists everywhere. People want to trust one source for vetting multiple candidates. This happens with YC for example. YC startups are more likely to raise money because investors trust the partners' judgement in vetting the founders.
These sorts of people have every incentive to target those more likely to be willing to serve as grist for their mill; young, idealistic, inexperienced individuals that will take the bait.
Never mind that most of them will fail, or that they're really not remotely qualified or experienced enough to produce good work in their field of interest. The amount invested is effectively pocket change, so much so that it doesn't matter if you have a 100 failures for every Dropbox.
It's a fools game to see the VC market as anything other than just another business industry, with different set or empty credentials. They use those credentials to convince 'entrepreneurs' to make themselves into a product to be sold, for pennies on the dollar.
Yes. I did the application form on their website several months ago. I never heard any response. Due to the distance and the fact that their need-based assistance is available only to women, I left it at that. I can't chase every opportunity all-out, so I've focused on the places in SF where I thought I had the best shot. And while I haven't gotten in, the teachers have been extremely kind and I do feel like I have at least gotten close.
Would you send a note to admissions@hackerschool.com with the email you used on that application so we can sort that out? We certainly don't mean to ignore any applications, and if you didn't hear back by the date stated on the app when you applied, I'm sorry about that and I would like to figure out what happened.
I just searched all our applications from our past four batches (our first two batches didn't have a formal application), and we never got an application from anyone with your email address. I also did queries on your first and last names and didn't find any matches.
Maybe you're confusing us with a different program (or could you have applied with a different name)?
Very odd. I could have used a different email, but I can't imagine having used a different name. I just went back to the application page and went through it to test and make sure it did a submission after just filling out one page of stuff. I do clearly remember both the questions and the look of the thanks for applying page. Given you just went through the DB, though... I don't know.
Either way, I'm clearly not the deomographic your program is looking for. There is another program with a different tuition model that I was really pursuing. That's the one I had really pinned my hopes on.
I roomed with 3 other hacker schoolers in a 4 bedroom apartment about 20 minutes away from hacker school (by train), and rent was $600 a month. I found the place through craigslist. Once you get accepted you can coordinate with other hacker schoolers and people from previous batches to help you find affordable places to live. Also, there were people from India, South Africa, Netherlands, Sweden and France during my batch. Most of them found housing in a similar way (through craigslist/airbnb or previous hacker school alumni)
I took a break from my startup and PhD in EE at Stanford as well as 6 years of work at Apple to do hacker school. It has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life and I would do it again if I could. There were people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences during my batch--from programmers who learned how to code before they could speak :) to a baker who had only started programming a month before the beginning of the batch. The only requirement is that you enjoy it so I encourage anyone who wants to grow as a programmer to apply.
