Lunch 2.0

Andrew Hyde has been running Startup Weekends nationwide. Occurring in cities across the world, Startup Weekend is the new way to allow your local entrepreneurial community to come together and incubate a company from concept to completion in just 54 hours.

This weekend the crew will be in San Francisco and Andrew would like us to know the Lunch 2.0 crowd is invited—it’s a free event!

Hosts: Startup Weekend
Address: Microsoft San Francisco, The Landmark, The Landmark at 1 Market Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, 94105
Date: Friday, November 16th 6PM – Sunday November 18th 12PM
RSVP by registering on EventBrite

Have you ever wondered what a group of highly talented and motivated people could accomplish in a weekend? Could they start a company from concept to completion?

Startup Weekend answers that question and more. A unique three-day experience, Startup Weekend brings the best and brightest people together in a local office space to select the concept, break into teams, and develop the product, marketing and revenue model.

Hi Lunch 2.0ers! Anand, our friend over at Microsoft, has passed us a registration code good for up to 300 RSVPs for Microsoft’s Halo 3 pre-launch party on 9/24!

Here’s the info:

Location: Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus
Address: Building 1, 1065 La Avenida, Mountain View CA 94043
Date: Monday, September 24th, 2007, 6:30PM – you drop(?)
RSVP on their site http://iammasterchief.com/ using the code “L20″

Please register only if you’ll be able to come since there are limited RSVPs available. See you guys there!

Upcoming Lunch 2.0s

• 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.
• Wednesday, 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

Hi everyone, just a quick reminder that we’ve got Lunch at MSFT in downtown SF tomorrow!

Also, on Wednesday we got one for the peeps in the South Bay: the 2nd annual interns Lunch 2.0 @ Meebo! (Everyone’s welcome though, you don’t have to be an intern )

Anand Iyer points out that it’s been a while since we’ve been lunch-ssimilated (and enjoyed it).

Did you know that Microsoft had an office in the city? Join “AI” and the rest of the Microsoft Evangelism team for Lunch 2.0 at One Market Street!

Location: Microsoft San Francisco
Address: The Landmark at 1 Market Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, 94105
Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2007, noon-2PM
RSVP on upcoming

Hmm, Tagged used to have offices at the Landmark. If they really wanted to convince us that Microsoft isn’t the evil borg collective, they should see if One Market Restaurant caters.

Due to a surreptitious order of the regeneration command, the drones at Microsoft SF went to sleep, and someone snuck in an reservation for one of the common rooms on Lunch 2.0 day. Because of that, space is limited to only 65 peeps. So, be sure to RSVP on upcoming and sign up while you can.

We had great weather for the Lunch 2.0 at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus yesterday. Bubba and Dennis helped get everyone checked in and even got our lunch paid for (for those of you who didn’t come becuase lunch wasn’t free you missed out! ). All these company cafeterias are starting to look the same, but here’s what the MSFT cafe in SVC Building 1 looks like:

We had quite a showing, at least 20 or so people from lots of different companies: Jajah, Yahoo, Roxio, knowesys, and slipabuck.com just to name a few

After lunch, Bubba took us around for a tour of the campus. It was opened in 2000 and is really nice (the weather probably made it even nicer); Bubba says if you want to experience the nice campus on a daily basis, let him know – they got plenty of job openings right now

Thanks for hosting Bubba, Dennis, Anand, and Natala!

Speaking of the borg cube at Y!, we’re heading over to the Silicon Valley campus of MSFT on Wednesday May 10th.

Location: Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus (SVC), 1065 La Avenida St., Mountain View, CA 94043
Date: Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
Check out the evil empire! (I hear they’re looking for people who want to be assimilated as well )

Mark your calendars!