Montreal StartupDrinks April

By Heri May 13th 2009 in entrepreneurship, Events

Thanks to everyone who went to StartupDrinks, we had a good turnout (about 70-80), and as usual great conversations, with people staying up to 10pm and then afterwards to the (usual) late night restaurant dinner nearby.

I was planning to discuss about Blitzweekend and also the ongoing talks about having a digital and physical tech space, but it turns out a cocktail is not at all the way to get this started. It’s all about one-to-one conversations, meeting lots of people from the community around a drink, in an informal way, and maybe planning to see a few of them afterwards in a more appropriate setting.

Here are pictures I took, at around 9.30pm, with slightly less people than around 6 or 7pm

StartupDrinks April

(see them here)

If you want to see who came to the event, see the event page

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mtltech May 14, 2009

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