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Title: open coffee for entrepreneurs, developers and investors (Forum)

Do you think Providence benefit from another event?

Anyone have experience with OpenCofee event or similar?
http://www.opencoffeeclub.org/

There is one up in Boston, weekly on thurs 10-12. I'm going this week if anyone want to check it out w/me or carpool.

John johnz@getmemo.com

 

 

 

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Source: The joint was hoppin' at RI Nexus Open Coffee (Blog) Submitted: May 30th, 2008 - 1:18pm link

I noticed that our open coffee is not listed on the main OPEN COFFEE website. 

http://www.opencoffeeclub.org/ 

Getting listed would only widen the circle and give potential attendees a good reference to the purpose.

 

Source: open coffee for entrepreneurs, developers and investors (Forum) Submitted: October 27th, 2007 - 9:52am link

There were about 8 people, many first/second time visitors. There was no format and very loose. The leader/organizer (VC guy) was not there. I only spoke with half the people, but most were startups. Some were just out of college, others were professionals with an idea all the way to up&running with small client base. 

Overall it was interesting to have a very open format to talk, listed, get//give feedback. I did find a good potential developer groups and 2 leads for potential business partnerships (reseller type).

The value seems to come from the ebb/flow of new faces and ideas. Being able to make new connections and have a easy point of entry.

Given the events that already exist in Prov and the relatively small/close community, I'm not sure of the value add and longterm viabilaty for a opencoffee in Prov.

On the flip side - why not. Give it a try and see how it goes. Everything is what we make of it and we seem to be making cool things lately :)