Get this: LA has a tech community. And it’s huge.
Today’s Lunch 2.0 @ YellowBot was a blast. Here are some pictures for those of you who missed it. (More here.)
Organizers: Nicole Jordon and me (Andrew Warner)
Emad of YellowBot thanking everyone for coming.
Rachel, Jennifer and Adam of Music IP.
Rachel won a bag from Shaun Jackson Design.
Todd of Google and Jon of Yahoo.
Vak won an iPod from YellowBot. (Emad is on his right.)
Emad, Ask, Vani and Erron of YellowBot put together a great party. Thank you YellowBot!
October 12th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Thanks for setting this up, Andrew! We all had a great time and we hope to be able to hold more of these events at our offices!
October 16th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
[...] In terms of meetups and networking events: the major problem here is not so much the number of events — it’s the fact that there is a fragmentation in the market. I regularly run into people promoting events who don’t realize they are running an event on exactly the same night as someone else approaching the same market. LA is so spread out and populous, that you don’t end up with a single community–you end up with multiple communities who may or may not be aware of each other. In terms of networking opportunities, just looking at the past couple of weeks, there was Thursdays In The Mix on October 4th, on the same night as an Entrepreneur’s Mixer, which was followed by VentureNet on the 5th; then a OC Innovation Mixer on Monday in OC at the Hive from the Digital Coast Roundtable; then there was Lunch 2.0 on Friday the 12th at Yellowbot. And those are just a fraction of the networking events and opportunities here. [...]