Time to announce the next Open Coffee event. We’ll be hanging out from 2pm until 5pm on Wednesday July 30th at the Panera Bread at Perimeter (4531 Olde Perimeter Way, Atlanta, GA 30346). Come and hang out, chat about your new venture, or just come and meet some new folks.
Remember, the goal here is to have entrepreneurs, investors, and related folks out to these events. If you’re a service provider, this isn’t the right venue for you. Clearly, I can’t stop you from coming but you’ll be shunned by those who do attend. So do yourself a favor and spend your time doing something more worthwhile.
Feel free to leave a comment and let me know you’re coming or drop me an @ on Twitter. That way I’ll know to look out for you.
You’re killing me. Another business trip, back late on the 30th. So I’ll miss this one, too.
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Isn’t a service provider also, sometimes, an entrepreneur?
Alexis – I assume you ask this because you’re a part (or maybe the founder, I didn’t look) of a business coaching company. You may view yourself as an entrepreneur, but by and large folks with service companies like yours come to these events to sell their services. That isn’t the purpose of open coffee events or any events that I organize.
Like I said, I can’t stop you from coming but you’ll likely have a more productive time by doing something else on July 30th than coming to this open coffee.
Your call just be warned that I occasionally publicly abuse service providers who crash my events:
http://www.sanjayparekh.com/startup-riot-the-good-and-the-bad/#comment-2276
Sanjay
Sanjay: I have exactly the same issue with Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs. I wanted to create a peer forum for people building business based on web apps, but in many ways it has become a much broader forum because so many people view themselves as “web entrepreneurs.” It is unfortunately the nature of the beast. Still I think I have recently recognize some ways for turning it around over the coming months, next month’ Twitter meeting being one of them.