Last Friday, May 1, 2009, our first LiveUmbrella Entrepreneurs Lounge was a huge success! Over 100 people showed, ranging from startup to investor, CEO to evangelist.
Mike Grishaver, CEO of Thingfo gave a brilliant speech on startups and his thoughts as an entrepreneur on VCs, running lean, and what to watch out for. A more full blog on his speech to come.
Super Rewards (http://www.srpoints.com) graciously sponsored our first event and educated attendees on their platform that allows monetization of online currency (in online games and social networks)
Some of the attendees I met were (and I won’t list them all):
Marston Alfred, Founder of SugarStats, an online tracking tool for diabetics (http://www.sugarstats.com)
Trevor Goss, Director of Business Development of DubMeNow, a mobile business card solution (http://www.dubmenow.com)
John Ramey, CEO and Founder of isocket, a commission free ad-platform (talk about great solution!), (http://www.isocket.com)
Mike Trotzke, Cofounder of SproutBox, an investor in startups (http://sproutbox.com)
Okan Arikan and Leslie Ikemoto, Founders of Animeeple, a place for 3D characters and animation (http://www.animeeple.com)
Fadi Bishara, Founder and CEO of TechVenture that helps match human capital with venture capital (http://www.techventure.com)
Devin Holloway of Merchant Circle which provides free online advertising for local businesses (http://www.merchantcircle.com)
Yukai Chou and Olina Qian of Viralogy, a site that allows social media rank of blogs (awesome!) (http://www.viralogy.com)
John Yamasaki of Seesmic, a place for you to communicate online via video conversation. (http://www.seesmic.com)
Arjun Sethi, Founder of Picktor, a photo management system that spans multiple platforms (http://www.picktor.com)
Damon Grow, Founder of SRInteractive (http://www.srinteractive.com) (Part of The TechCrunch 50 finalist)
..So many more startup, entrepreneurs, and dreamers were in attendance… our next event takes place Friday, June 5 at Melt Lounge in Palo Alto. Come join us and network. Registration required. http://ad.vu/bx2q
Thank you to each and every one of you for coming…
Full selection of photos by Michael O’Donnell (@photo) here: http://tinyurl.com/chwgkm
-LadyLeet
