Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast, August 12th (16)
Thanks everyone for the feedback on the Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakast! The post was up initially to “gauge interest” for these breakfasts, and I think the comments went beyond expectations, proving that there’s strong interest for meetups and meeting entrepreneurs. Even if there were a few diverging comments, most wanted an informal event, that would be scheduled early and where they could exchange in detail with other attendees. And also still have a vibe different than those found in the usual 5 à 7 business networking events. We’ve got now a wiki for those who want to continue contributing ideas.
Ben Yoskovitz has published the event for tomorrow on facebook. It’s 8am to 10am (instead of 9am to 11am), although as everyone knows, you can come up and leave at any time.
If you plan to come tomorrow, you need to sign up there so that others can have a minimal idea of who will be there.
The place is always Bistro Etc, 1291 Avenue Mont-Royal. It’s about 5-10 minutes from the Mont-Royal metro station. Original plan was to choose a new place, somewhere between the plateau and downtown, but we couldn’t find one in time. Still, Tanya is making a list of potential places for next month. There’s also one at Praized (add the “mteb” tag to places)
Hope to see everyone there tomorrow! As everyone knows, everyone’s welcomed and it’s pretty much informal. In the past, we’ve had bloggers, video-bloggers, technology consultants and developers, marketing specialists, tech entrepreneurs, reporters, technology lawyers, angel investors (and a few VCs) etc.
Again, special thanks to Ben, who even if he’s running Standoutjobs, still finds the time to contribute to the community. He’s a great model for everyone.
That’s great news! I’m sad to miss it tomorrow (out of town) but I’m looking forward to the September breakfast!
I’m not in Montreal yet :( I look forward to the Sept one!
[...] stay up-to-date on the event, check out our Facebook Group and keep an eye on Montreal Tech Watch. Tanya’s also got a wiki in the works that she’ll be posting about [...]
I wish I could come, but mornings are kinda hectic for me… 5 hour time difference with the UK and all :)
If anyone else is interested but can’t make a morning meeting, I’m hosting an OpenCoffee: http://www.opencoffeeclub.org/forum/topic/show?id=609012%3ATopic%3A47709
The event is also posted on Facebook.
hmm, basil:
- startupdrinks
- montreal tech entrepreur breakfast
- mtl new tech meetup
- 5 a 7 technomontreal
- yulbog, yulbliz, 3rd tuesdays
- … and now Montreal Open Coffee ?
I applaud everyone’s enthusiasm but maybe this needs a little bit of synchronization
Hi Heri, I sent you an email :)
Basically I see from feedback to your last post about this that there is interest for a more central location, and interest for non-business hours time frame. MTEB and StartupDrinks are cool, but they’re both at odd hours (mid morning when people are working, or late at night). I think that people might like being able to choose whether they are tired the next morning and avoid losing business hours, so having a OpenCoffee type event at a pub downtown seems perfectly reasonable.
Also, this is a little less unstructured and casual than the other events- I have reserved a section of Hurleys for our use, and I was hoping to have people present 10 minute elevator pitches and do some Q&A.
That said, I’m new to this community, and I really don’t know anyone that well yet. If you really think this is crowding events too close together, I’ll postpone.
Basil,
It’s just that I think the MTEB and OpenCoffees are very similar in nature. StartupDrinks has different objectives, also Felipe who wants to do the new tech meetup is also very different in principle.
You need to think about fragmentation and cannibalization of audience. What I think is that it’s better to have 30 people at a breakfast than have 10 people at the breakfast then 10 other people at OpenCoffee.
Then again, it’s just my personal opinion. And also, you might be right. We’ll see for the first one if people come up. I mean, I’ve been encouraging people to meetup and do things, so I this is great in a way.
I agree in principle, but I can’t go to the MTEB because of the day job. If I really am alone in this, I’ll consider it a lesson learned.
To be honest, I can’t believe I’m the only person who has trouble meeting people during business hours- maybe OpenCoffee will get people out who normally can’t make it! Also, I hope that a couple of weeks between the events (the 12th to the 25th) is enough time for people to start missing each other ;)
but have you heard of StartupDrinks? we are holding it the 27th (always the last wednesday of the month), and it starts from 6pm to 8pm
We did announce it from 5pm previously but people came up late so that’s why it’s now 6.
For some reason I thought it started at 10:00 PM… mea culpa :)
I’ll put OpenCoffee on hold for now. Thanks for your patience ;)
Hey Basil and Heri, in my opinion the more options we have the better it is for the community. However I do think we should coordinate so we don’t overlap the dates.
I was browsing through the other events and I think things are looking pretty cool… It looks like we have a lot of good options!
You all have fun tomorrow and I’ll see you on the September breakfast.
@Basil: Why not take the plunge and quit your day job?
Wow:
What an Excellent Montreal Tech Breakfast this
morning.
There must of been at least 30 people or more.
I’ve been attending the Tech breakfast for sometime and today it was very successful for me.
I was looking to increase my network contact to include a Source Agent for China, and today I found one.
The Montreal Tech Breakfast really works, you can meet people that will truely help your business.
Regards Robert
Hi everyone.
It was great to attend the breakfast and meet many of you that I’ve only been fortunate to know in digitized formats!
If you didn’t get a chance to add your name and email address to the document we’d passed around, please get in touch with me via the Facebook group.
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5502019497
We’ll be using this list to keep you up to date on future tech events and contact you.
@George Heh, it’s tempting, but I have my first kid due in weeks, and my wife would kill me if I left a cushy and reliable IT job for a 6 month old startup based in England.
Glad to see that the start time was moved from 9h to 8h. I second the motion to move the event to a more central location.
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