This March 2005 plan for a startup school morphed into Y Combinator, which then organized a startup school much like this. A friend of mine who works for an investment bank is considering organizing a one-day conference for tech types who think they might want to start a startup one day, and want to learn more about how the whole thing works. It would probably be possible to round up a good selection of founders and VCs to explain what to do, and what not to do. The conference would probably be free, or nearly so, and would probably take place in Boston.