Follow up from June meeting. See you in August.
{ June 28th, 2009 }
Last Wednesday was our kickoff shinding for the Detroit Chapter of Startup Drinks at historic Cliff Bells, the same night of the Tigers spanking the Cubs as well as the Detroit Fireworks. The serious about startups and drinks were in attendance.
Their selection of beers was pretty impressive, including the coveted Hitachino from Japan. I was also told by Alok Sharma they house a fine selection of rye whiskies. The Albert Kahn décor was inspiring and conducive to good conversation about what we’re all working on. Jake Sigal also had wise words of advice and inspiration as he shared information about livioradio.com’s meteoric rise this past year with the Pandora Radio. A very cool piece of gear. Many thanks for bringing down the presentation.
We casually discussed the goal and vibe of our Chapter and thought it best to make our meetings bi-monthly as all of us are busy trying to start something up. Be on the lookout for the next meeting in August. Please post your ideas and thoughts about where might be a good place as well as ideas for the group.
Big up!
A simple concept: startup culture in cities around the world gathers around a bar to have a pint and discuss what they are working on, what they need help with and what they can do for each other.
July 27th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Congrats!
Let us know if there there’s a good time to have a crew from Ann Arbor visit, esp. if there’s another event of interest to pair up with or help support (we’ve had Ann Arbor startup folks out at TechNow 09 in Royal Oak, Momentum-MI in Grand Rapids, etc.).
We welcome everyone further east of us to stop by sometime for our monthly a2newtech meetup (http://a2newtech.org), monthly Ann Arbor Startup Drinks (http://annarbor.startupdrinks.com), weekly CoffeeHouseCoders (http://coffeehousecoders.org), or any of the other geek/startup events here (see our review of the last 6 months at http://bit.ly/VYVgr ).
Cheers!