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Founders of Airbnb, FourSquare, Dropbox & Quora To Speak at MIT’s Startup Bootcamp Tomorrow


It’s not often you can get the founders of Airbnb, FourSquare, Dropbox and Quora all under one roof. Tomorrow, however, they will be, along with six other highly successful entrepreneurs.

Startup Bootcamp, a free one-day event sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, kicks off tomorrow at 9 a.m. in the Institute’s Kresge Auditorium. Talks by startup founders will be happening throughout the day, with a lunch break from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. The specific schedule of speaker times will be posted in the morning.

Here’s who’ll be there, though –

  • Alex Polvi of Cloudkick, a company that provides cloud server and management tools
  • Paul English of Kayak, a tech company created by the co-founders of Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz, focused on improving online travel
  • Nathan Blecharczyk of Airbnb, a community marketplace that connects people who have a place to spare with those who are looking for a place to stay
  • Naveen Selvadurai of FourSquare, a location-based mobile platform that allows users to “check-in” at various locations, sharing their location with friends while collecting points and virtual badges
  • Leah Culver of Convore, an app that gives users a quick way to instant message with groups of friends in real time
  • Drew Houston of Dropbox, a free service that lets people bring their photos, docs and videos anywhere and easily share them
  • Patrick Collison of Stripe, a company that’s making it easier to accept payments online
  • Adam D’Angelo of Quora, a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited and organized by everyone who uses it
  • Anthony Volodkin of Hype Machine, a site that keeps track of what music bloggers are writing about
  • Andrew Sutherland of Quizlet, the largest flash cards and study games website with over six million free sets of flash cards
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