TECH cocktail Testimonials: Bring ‘em on!
May 21, 2007
Did you meet someone at TECH cocktail that:
- You did business with?
- You hired?
- Hired you?
- You started a company with?
- Gave you some great ideas?
- Asked you on a date?
Well, we don’t really care about the last one but if it happened for you then congrats!
OK, enough of my attempts to be funny. Please send along your testimonials to eric [at] techcocktail.com or simply add them to the comments here. This is for both Chicagoans and DC folks and it will hopefully show us that the events have been adding value to the communities they are part of. We’ll also wrap up some of the best testimonials in a forthcoming post.
Thanks in advance from Frank and I and stay tuned for more TECH cocktails to come.
Photo Credit: Joel Telling on Flickr
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To make a long story very short: TECHcocktail brought me to an amazing web 2.0 startup, FeedBurner. I’ve also met a handful of very ambitious and entrepreneurial people I now consider close friends.
Long version:
I moved to Chicago in 2005 after graduating from Purdue. I was in consulting and worked continuously for 8 months and had no life. Then I added a gmail label called “entrepreneurs.” I realized very few of my daily emails fit into this label. I had to do something to correct this.
I started going to user groups (chirb cjug, chiPHPug and DLC). I meet Somewhat Frank and things start getting good fast. We have dinner and say how we need a calendar for Chicago web entrepreneurs. That weekend I launch Techsocial.
Fast forward. I attended (and helped slightly) with TC1 and met a bunch of great people.
Fast forward. I was ready for new challenges at a startup and for the last six months my friends (originally met via TECHcocktail) were encouraging me to apply to FeedBurner. I apply and lickety-split they swoop me up and here I am, having the time of my life and working with brilliant engineers. (You business folks are alright too
Thanks Frank and Eric!
Jonathan Andrew Wolter
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