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1. A lot of people seem to bring laptops to take notes. I wouldn't though. I'd rather take just a few important notes on paper.

2. The other people there. You should introduce yourself to people. They also don't know anyone. Also, Airbnb's going to host an afterparty that I recommend to everyone. Those guys know how to throw a party.

3. Learn as much as you can about the backgrounds of the speakers.

4. I should write something about this.

5. If you are a hacker and would possibly consider going to work at a startup instead of starting your own, visit some startups while you're there. Startups are desperately eager to hire right now. They won't consider it an imposition at all if hackers want to visit them.

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Strongly agree with #5: hiring sucks for startups, we'd all love to meet some entusiastic candidates.

Shameless plug: GazeHawk is looking for our first hires. http://gazehawk.com/jobs/

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You should post in the new October who's hiring thread. I browsed a lot of it last night and would have remembered your job posting.