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Dallas Startup Happy Hour Roundup

July 8, 2008

Last night’s ‘Startup Happy Hour’ (still thinking about an official name) went off last night without a hitch.  Around 5PM, Brad Merritt (CEO of WhiteBox and my partner), George Carter (inventor of Laser Tag) and I were the only attendees (except of course for Jennifer and Masha who agreed to help sign people in and hand out name tags).  But within 30 minutes we had around 20 people.  By seven we had upwards of 50 people (34 of which filled out Jennifer’s sign in sheet).  I closed the tab around eight and there were still about seven or eight people.  I was really surprised we had such a good turnout. The best part of the evening was the mix of people.  The majority of people worked at startups.  There were a few angel investors, perhaps not as many as we would like (it is July after all).  Anyway, if you missed this event there will be another in two weeks (July 21st, 5PM at the High Tech Bar in the INFOMART).  Oh, and I think we are going to require an RSVP (more on that later this week) so we can better accomodate the turnout (I have a feeling more people will be coming next time).  Love to get your feedback:

  • What did you like? What did you dislike?
  • How can we make it better?
  • What can you do to help us make it better?

Just leave your comments, ideas and thoughts below. . .

Startup Attendees included:

Charles Humphreyson    Prova    www.provagroup.com
Brian Wiblin    Concepla Systems    www.comceptasys.com
Jason Hudgins    Droidworks    http://blog.droidworks.com
Brian Lee    Profit Stars    www.profitstars.com
Ty East    Symon    www.symon.com
Carri Craver    Nomee    www.nomee.com
Justin Bigelow    Adshuffle    www.adshuffle.com
Marc Archin    Web Algorithm, Inc.    www.webalgorithm.com
William Watts    Intelivox    www.intelivox.net
Paul Sanderson    Near Port    www.webalgorithm.com
Jay Ramirez    Marblehead    http://blog.marbleheadllc.com
Marshall Lawrence    Architel    www.architel.com
Abdullah Jibaly    Ayoka    www.ayokasystems.com
Scott Whigham    Learn It First    www.Learnitfirst.com
Mark Blaskovich    Ayoka    www.ayokasystems.com
Paul Johnson    Lomans Rx    www.lomansrx.com
Kevin Theppharaj    Architel    www.architel.com
Stormy Shippy    High Form    www.highform.com
Micah Davis    Roov.com    www.roov.com
Andres Fabris    Traxo    www.traxo.com
Eknauth Persaud    Ayoka    www.ayokasystems.com
Andy Chen    Traxo    www.traxo.com
Brian Mann    Rank One Sport    www.rankonesport.com
Scott Ticer    n/a    www.scott&tieless.com
Charles Cecil    MCG Group    www.mcggroup.com
Scott Ryan Architel www.architel.com
Brad Merritt WhiteBox www.whiteboxco.com

Of course there were more, but they didn’t give us their name, URL and email…

Written by Alexander Muse · Filed Under Blog, Startups 

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