Are you a hacker who has thought about one day starting a startup? Have you already started it? Then you're invited to a free, one-day startup school this October 29 at Stanford. We'll have a range of experts speaking about startups from their own experience.

The atmosphere of energy in the room at startup school is something you have to experience to believe. Many founders have told us that this event was what finally made them take the leap.

The application deadline has now passed. If you got an invitation, please let us know if you're coming. If you didn't, we're sorry. We couldn't invite everyone we wanted to. But this is an annual event: we'll have another in 2012.