[ashraymalhotra]

Can someone please elaborate on how (and how much) value attending this event adds? Is it geared more for helping you apply to YC, answer generic startup related questions etc?

Specifically, I am selected in YC Startup school and will have to spend at least a day to travel to attend the session. Is it worth the extra time and money?

[SeanAppleby]

I've gone to office hours and I thought it was very useful, although I'd imagine it would vary very widely based on who you actually end up talking to, how much experience/insight they have into your sector/product/(even better) the specific problems you're having, as well as how interested they are in what you're doing.

The people from YC (at least the few I've met) spend a crazy amount of time around startups and have a lot of insight into all kinds of random problems that startups have that they see from being so deep in the startup world, so if you can talk to one of the people from there who's in your general area, and you have specific issues that you're grappling with how to approach and how to avoid pitfalls, they might be able to add a lot of value pretty quickly based on having seen people go through similar kinds of problems.

If you just want to go to the general Q&A, already are around hackernews and are already in startup school, I'm not sure it would necessarily be worth a whole day of travel. The Q&A is necessarily pretty general, and you probably are already getting a good general footing from startup school, although I second the other guy's exception of if you're really good at networking, since there will be interesting people there.

[probdist]

Went to a similar event at Harvard some years ago. Was interesting but if you are a HN regular you probably get as much out of blog posts following happenings online as at the event.

YMMV if you are a better net-worker than I am.

[thisisit]

> get as much out of blog posts following happenings

Curious, what are some of the best blog posts/sites to follow?

[Cenk]

I was at the Stockholm evening two (?) years ago when they visited the company I worked for then, Wheelys Café. It was certainly an interesting evening and a fun event, but I would not have travelled a day to attend.