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This is fantastic and beautiful!

I made a few sketches myself as part of a larger project I'm working on (a year without cameras): http://crafture.me/post/64711241777/startup-school-2013

Wow what an awesome project. Keep up the amazing work!
Love your project - were you experienced as an illustrator when you decided to do this? What was the purpose behind it?
Thanks for posting! If anything is unclear (it's always hard to find quotes without trimming too much context), let me know.
Hi Greg. Thanks for your work here -- it looks great! I have a few questions.

Which mistake was Zuck referring to with "That mistake cost me billions"?

What did he mean by "When a problem arises, lockdown"?

What did Chase mean by "The worst part of being a nonprofit is that nobody says no"?

What did Balaji mean by "Show people what a world run by Silicon Valley would look like (without disrupting)"? Politically?

How did you get the pictures to each person at the bottom of the page? Photoshop over their genuine pictures?
Simply want to join my voice to others by saying this is amazing and the design is very inspiring. It is simple, informative, and feels personal. Kudos!
Gregory, I think you did an amazing job! If you want, I can send you some pictures you can use, if you'd like to add them. Let me know.
Beautifully implemented. If it's not too much to ask, please consider making public the source code behind the display and design - really gorgeous way of showing a collection of notes.
Already is: https://github.com/gkoberger/startupnotes

(I did it fast; I need to refactor soon. Also, I'll add a license.)

EDIT: Open license added, have fun with it!

These are beautiful! You should sell these, maybe individually as mugs/posters - I'd definitely buy some key one-liners for our office.

For those of you who want a bit more context, here are two sets of notes from this weekend:

https://github.com/charlesfeng/startup-school-2013 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xo99mjzc4nyK3J4_GBiba_Kz...

There is some overlap between the two but also some differences so I'd suggest reading both.

[Disclaimer: I produced the first set - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6578780]

Beautiful! Did you tweet it? Can you post the link? We are curating a list of the best content on theneeds [1] and I'd like to add this one (we only import feeds or tweets).

[1] http://www.theneeds.com/learn/top-content/startupschool

Ciao Emanuele, nice to see you here as well :)
That is actually so slick. I wish more web services had designs like this.
Thanks!
Awesome. Much better than my hand-written notes.

http://justink.svbtle.com/my-hand-written-notes-from-startup...

I took the courtesy to convert these into pdf slides (for easier reading on iDevices, etc) you can download them from here (http://blog.websecurify.com/uploads/aa_StartupSchool.pdf) for now but it will be great if Gregory puts them on his website next to the github link.

Thanks for the great work Greg!

Great format, simple execution and presentation for us who were unable to attend, lots of valuable insights.

I think the theme that stands out for me personally from all of these notes is: Find something you can work on almost non-stop, expect to fail a lot (because you will), learn and adapt, keep trying.

Dude, sweet post!

Big fan of sketch notes myself so I'll definitely be forking that repo.

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22019990/V84GJ7NUzlOJ_V9l...

^ Sketchnote, but not from Startup School.
Is there a video of these presentations?
The official website says: "We'll have videos of the individual talks up as soon as we can." (http://startupschool.org)
Dat affiliate link ;). Only joking, you deserve it, this is great work.
I'm calling it a "Series A(mazon)" round
Wait, where's the affiliate link? I don't see it anywhere.

Small comment about the site: looks great and well-made, I just wish that every next page click didn't populate browser history, such that I needed to hit 'back' 10 times to get back to where I was.

Man this website is gorgeous. Great work. follows @gkoberger
Great Job! All of the startup school notes being posted on the internet have helped me make up a little bit for not being able to attend startup school 2013!
Great work. I noticed on the Dan Siroker (optmizely) slide that he states them having 140 customers, is that number right? Their site says 6000.
Excellent work! One thing you missed on Nathan Blecharczyk's talk... "VCs want the B's Baby! (not the M's)"
haha I wanted to include it, but I left that out because he didn't actually mean it -- he was quoting someone else and it was bad (albeit probably true) advice. Hard to convey all that in a simple doodle.
Awesome. Love the sketches. Did you use Paper?
Only in the most literal sense :)

Paper: Mixed Media, 5.5inx8.5in notebook by Strathmore

Pens: Uni-ball Vision Micro

Scanned; shading was done after in Photoshop. I tried using Paper, but it was too hard to write longer quotes.

This is beautiful!!.... Thanks for creating this. This will be good reading material whilst waiting for the videos.
This is great! Awesome summary, and your quote doodles kicked the pants off of mine for sure. :)
How'd you create the Doodles? Just sketched them by hand and scanned them? or Photoshop?
Sketched (pen+paper) and scanned, touched up and colored in Photoshop.
Can anybody elaborates on Mark Zuckerberg's note "That stupid movie..."? :)
I would buy this as a little hand book. That'd be awesome.
It looks really nice, but there might be a problem for someone reading these notes who didn't actually watch startup school. For example in Watsi's section you write "Worst part about being a non-profit: Nobody says NO", that could be a sarcastic comment, or it could be a problem of too much funding, or it could be it's actually meaning that everybody actually says no, but just not to his face. Also, the starting quotes without ending quotes drive me a little crazy, but that's just a personal thing.
Insanely great. I'm a huge fan. Thank you!
when we will have the videos?
Dear Gregory, this is really brilliant! Very well done!
You are ridiculous!
Simply. Excellent.
Great work!
Nice work.. and some good 1-liners.
Everyone is praising you on the look/feel of your website, which I agree is pretty cool; however, the content of what "people" learned from the conference seems all but completely useless (unless the conference sucked that much that all you got out of each speaker was a couple of 1 liner's??). Not sure if you were serious about the content or just messing around to demo your website.
Too bad your page flip animation violates Apple's patent.

http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?docid=D0670713&SectionNum=1&IDK...