Open Coffee Club - real world networking
Do entrepreneurs and investors looking for something new get much chance to meet up with skilled developers? That chance probably does not arise as often as it should. Except that now something is being done to create that very opportunity, by the Open Coffee Club – and you don’t even have to drink coffee, juice will be just fine. The Open Coffee Club creates the opportunity for business people, developers and ideas people to meet up informally face-to-face, and this opportunity happens regularly at a specific place, in a number of major cities worldwide. You don’t have to attend every time – not at all, it’s just that the opportunity is there if you happen to feel like it, or if you have something specific you want to discuss.
The Open Coffee Club, which allows people to chat, network and grow, was founded by Saul Klein, who is also VP of Skype, amongst other significant internet work. In a blog post back in February 2007, Saul suggested the idea of the club as an attempt to establish an open and regular meeting place where entrepreneurs could meet with investors, and anyone else who cared to come along, with the setting being totally informal. The key point was establishing a regular place and a regular time, rather than who actually comes along. Saul suggested this as an idea that could be replicated globally, and a list could be drawn up of all the places where people could meet.
And so it came to pass that the first Open Coffee Club meet up was held in London on March 1st 2007 at Starbucks inside Espirit, Regent Street in London, the idea rapidly being taken up by others with Open Coffee meet ups being organised in places as diverse as Dublin, Barcelona, Zagreb, Sacramento and Capetown.
So if you fancy getting together and discussing business and ideas with some like minded people … coffee anyone?