The whole invite only aspect of it makes me want to puke. Way to foster community and help other entrepreneurs meet up with like-minded folks. I'll stick to my hacker meetups tyvm (okay and i do attend tweetups, there really shouldnt be such stigma involved with them.. they're quite fun).
Agreed. I met my cofounders here in the bay at SHDH. The next SHDH is this Saturday (www.shdh.org). If you want to find your next cofounder, this is the place to be.
I kind of disagree. In a way Startup School is the same thing. I think when you can assure that all the people are really serious about being there (and are also reasonably qualified) it makes for a higher quality event. I would far rather attend Startup2Startup than Lunch 2.0 for example, the quality of the networking is orders of magnitude better.
In the case of looking for people to start a company with I think I would appreciate that the people who are there have been screened by some sort of process.
Well for startup school, there's limited seating, and high profile panel speakers. A founder dating session probably won't even attract 30 people if there's no indication of content.
It may benefit such an event to signal selectivity even if all invite-requests are granted.
Also, so many people just crash open free events (with beer!) that applying even the slightest seriousness filter could boost the event value a lot for its intended audience.
There are plenty of all-comers networking events, too -- it's not like the bay area tech startup community is either fragile, requiring gentle encouragement to finally grow, or exclusionary, starving for fresh blood.
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[ 0.19 ms ] story [ 35.3 ms ] threadIn the case of looking for people to start a company with I think I would appreciate that the people who are there have been screened by some sort of process.
Also, so many people just crash open free events (with beer!) that applying even the slightest seriousness filter could boost the event value a lot for its intended audience.
There are plenty of all-comers networking events, too -- it's not like the bay area tech startup community is either fragile, requiring gentle encouragement to finally grow, or exclusionary, starving for fresh blood.