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TechCafe Happy Hour @BlueBoxGroup
Tweet I must say that I am pretty excited to go check out the event on Friday – nearly sold out (10 spots left)… We have been planning this one for some time and can’t wait to see all the great people in the Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond tech community come out for Happy Hour. Last year was an awesome year for TechCafe events – so awesome we took a few months off from getting geeky with the best startups and technologists in the area – rest assured though we are back and planning a few awesome events. If you are interested in sponsoring or hosting one – let us know! First up is one of our personal favorites. Blue Box Group! We have been watching this team grow for a while now and it has … Read entire article »
Filed under: NW events, Seattle, seattlelunch20, Startups, TechCafe
TechCafe Presents
Tweet TechCafe Presents – August 19th 4:30-6pm 1191 2nd Ave. Seattle, WA 98101 Register Back already!! TechCafe is putting on our second demo event!! Everyone really enjoyed seeing a few young startups last time, the startups really enjoyed the opportunity to pitch, and of course we loved putting the two groups together!! So please join us for our (I don’t want to jinx it) Quarterly TechCafe Presents… It is a demo event where we have carefully selected two startups from the community that are early enough in their lifecycle that paying to pitch or demo is outrageous – we are talking ramen eating, consulting on the side, (maybe some friends and family money), but really anything to make their passion happen startups!! Like all of the TechCafe events of the past – this is a sponsored event, thanks to our friends at Fenwick … Read entire article »
Filed under: Seattle
TechCafe Happy Hour @Pinchzoom
Tweet TechCafe Happy Hour @pinchzoom – July 9th 4:30-6pm 707 N 35th Seattle, WA 98103 Register This will be our first event in Fremont!! We’ve done all over downtown (including pioneer square, belltown, sodo, capitol hill), Ballard, Redmond, Kirkland, Bellevue – but this will be the first ever in Fremont… Pinchzoom builds mobile applications for themselves and others – in other words they have an interesting business model that includes services for other entities and building products that they sell themselves. Certainly an interesting model to look at… and looking at pinchzoom’s new digs it’s easy to see that they are doing executing very well!! … Read entire article »
Filed under: Seattle
Thoughts on Networking
Tweet I promised a follow-up to my last post, how to get plugged-in to the local network after I spoke at NWEN‘s Entrepreneur University. It’s also a great follow-up to the last post about working less. So if you are looking for work, there are some things here that are good to learn. Thanks for everyone who sent feedback on their thoughts about the Seattle Startup community and networking in general. Here is half of the talk we gave at the NWEN EU event… NWEN EU – Plugging-in It was a lot of fun and interesting to learn from the attendees and co-panelists (Nathan Kaiser, Danielle Morrill, and Dave Schappell) what problems they had with networking and how hidden the local community appears when you are an outsider looking in. The five points that I found most applicable … Read entire article »
Filed under: Seattle
How to get plugged-in to the local network
Tweet I am going to be on a panel about getting “plugged-in” to a local network of people. Obviously this has a lot of uses, from networking for a job, to networking to find business partners, to finding customers, to finding a significant other. There are loads of reasons to network and everyone has their own approach. I’ve had some success with it and built Seattle Lunch 2.0 in the process (btw, there is a lunch this Friday with some cool Demos and another next Friday over at Gist). While I do have a lot of my own thoughts, I would be more interested in your thoughts about how to build a network and how to get plugged into a network where you previously have not been active. There are a lot … Read entire article »
Filed under: Lunch2.0, Lunch20-Seattle
Experiences Attending and Hosting Seattle Lunch 2.0
Tweet In response to a discussion about events and what value they have for people, I wanted to post my thoughts on the experience of attending and hosting a Seattle Lunch 2.0 event…. I can’t speak for the “Think Tanks” or WTIA events, but the Seattle Lunch 2.0 events are Mingling events and they contain great startup-relevant information. Over the few years that I have been leading/attending these Mingling events I have participated in numerous group discussions about how companies grew their startups. When I say discussion, I mean an active audience participation in discussions about what is most interesting to the group at large. The CEO/Founder contributions to the conversations have ranged from “started in college”, to “spun out of Microsoft or other BigCo”, to “had a bright idea coding one day”, to… … Read entire article »
Filed under: career, NW events, Seattle, seattlelunch20, Startups, TechCafe
The Value of Networking
Tweet Networking is one of the most valuable skills an individual needs to have when navigating society. Without establishing a good network individuals navigate the world with only the opportunities and knowledge that they come across directly. It is true, the opportunities and knowledge that an individual comes across in life are usually good enough. Yet, the potential opportunities and knowledge that are available to that same individual through a good network are nearly always far greater. Individuals can find success all on their own. However, with the power of a solid network more opportunities and knowledge become available to an individual that can be turned into successful situations. Those situations can be valuable in a number of ways from family reasons to political reasons to business reasons. My favorite example of … Read entire article »
