Reminder: Minekey and Plug and Play tomorrow (Thursday)
Here’s a quick reminder that Minekey and Plug and Play Tech Center will host Lunch 2.0 tomorrow, Thursday, September 6 from 12 noon to 1:30 pm.
Location Plug and Play Tech Center – 440 N Wolfe Rd., Sunnyvale, CA 94085
RSVP at the original post or Upcoming.
Also, remember that this Friday, Los Angeles and Bangalore Lunch 2.0’s are launching at ThisNext and Opson respectively!
(Also, the Adobe peeps tell us that the AJAX AIR contest submission e-mail) is now live for the Adobe Lunch 2.0.)
Upcoming Lunch 2.0s
- Thursday, September 6- Minekey, Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley. THIS EVENT.
- Friday, September 7- ThisNext, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
- Friday, September 7- Opson, Bangalore, India
- Wednesday, September 12- Cardomain.com, Seattle
- Friday, September 14- Adobe, SOMA, San Francisco.
- Friday, September 19- RockYou, San Mateo, Silicon Valley.
- Friday, September 21- TBA, Financial District, San Francisco
- Friday, September 21- Adobe, Seattle
- Wednesday, September 26- TBA, San Francisco
- Tuesday, October 9- ZendCon H2.O, Burlingame, San Francisco
- Friday, October 12- TBA, Seattle
- Friday, October 19- TBA, Redwood City, Silicon Valley
September 5th, 2007 at 7:45 am
[...] We are hosting a Lunch 2.0 at Minekey on Thursday, September 6th. Started as an informal and regular gathering of Silicon Valley tech workers in corporate cafeterias, Lunch 2.0 has rapidly evolved through word-of-mouth into a national series of events. [...]
September 6th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
[...] Today I went to a Lunch 2.0 event at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale that was much more my speed. There were about 200 people there, and the majority were either the typical tech entrepreneur types I’m familiar with, or engineers from companies like HP or Apple. At lunch I met a new kind of banker. His firm specializes in loaning money to startups who need to make it between funding rounds. He claimed to make his loan decisions based on his personal knowledge and opinion of the founders, and didn’t seem to have any problem with loaning money to firms with no revenue. I’ve never heard of anything like that in Boston. The idea of a banker even trying to know entrepreneurs personally is a shock. When I opened the bank account for Grazr, after we got our funding, I put $1.5M into the account, and then asked for a corporate credit card with a few thousand dollars of credit to manage our travel expenses. They said they couldn’t possibly give us a card for at least 6 months. I bet if I asked to borrow money with no business plan or revenue, they would have laughed. [...]
September 7th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
The Minekey Lunch 2.0 was a great success! 263 guests attended. Everyone seemed to really enjoy the outdoor BBQ, DJay, networkin and presentation by CEO Delip Andra. Thanks to the Lunch 2.0 crew for all your help.