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Web 2.0 is one big party — if you live in SF
Om Malik has a great Silicon Valley story about how Scott Johnson — ex of Feedster — closed an angel investment for his new company Ookles (top secret) while sitting in Om’s bathroom, as the blogger and his podcast partner Niall Kennedy recorded their latest in the living room.
Later, Om says he met legendary venture capitalist Bill Draper Sr., shared a car with Seth Steinberg of the online messenger service Meebo, and sat in a cafe with Dave Winer, when Kevin Burton of TailRank dropped in. Then Matt Mullenweg of Wordpress.com and Scott Beale of Laughingsquid.com showed up, along with venture capitalist Jeff Clavier and Dave Sifry of Technorati.com.
And that’s not even a party like the ones Mike Arrington of TechCrunch.com throws, where 200 invitations fill up in a matter of hours and there’s a room at the back for startups to demo their wares. Om’s just talking about a regular day (okay, maybe not totally regular) in San Francisco tech-land. Yes, it seems that Web 2.0 is one big party.
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Om Malik had a post (hat tip to Mathew Ingram) about a 24-period where he stumbled into a series of high-profile entrepreneurs and VCs, which, I guess, is just another day in Silicon Valley. It certainly seems like a great time to be there given the ex...
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arrington's parties and hang out at the cafe om was talking about :-)
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Not that I don't like a good party jammed with smart people talking about interesting things. And beer :-)
Hey, why don't we try to fire one up here? Like First Tuesday used to be (they still around)? I'd spring for some brews if we could get some cool people out. I'm serious, btw.
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too, though :-)
maybe we should try to do a meetup/first tuesday kind of thing
(doesn't look like the latter has a presence in toronto any more from
the website). at least it would be a good excuse to get out of the
house.
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the market will only reward the appearance of innovation for so long. sooner or later you have to deliver something real people will highly value. by 2008-2010 this will probably be a product in the alternative energy space (the world does not "need" another website), and the rewards will be very large. this will change the focus of young thinkers again, back to a field with a high barrier to entry, where the rewards are also high.
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California in a lot of ways :-)
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A usual day contains mountain biking on The Shore with Paul, skiiing at Whistler with Dick or catching a Canucks game with Tim. Ok maybe that's not quite how it happens for me but maybe for a high flyer like Andre ;)
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PS: My blog's URL is blog.softtechvc.com :-).
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Seriously though, I know you guys do work too. It's just hard to read posts like Om's sometimes when you live so far from the action, as it were. It also reinforces how much face-to-face type stuff still matters, even with Web 2.0 or Business 2.0.
Anyway, thanks for the comment -- I enjoy your blog.
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