We’re sticking OTP for the next Open Coffee.  It’ll be March 2, 2009 from 2pm until 4pm at the Northern Star Coffeehouse in Norcross.

If you’re an entrepreneur, angel investor, or VC you’re welcome to join us. If you’re not one of those three things, you’re welcome to stay away from this get together.

Feel free to RSVP below or on the Upcoming event. Or don’t and just show up. Whatever.

Also, do you find keeping up with these local events tough? If so, I’ve started an announcements only mailing list that you can subscribe to. Just send an email to atlstartups-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and you’ll get the announcements. I plan to keep the list postings to about one every few days at most but in no case more than one a day. Or you can just keep coming here to read the latest event scoop.

For the next Open Coffee, we’re heading OTP. It’ll be January 22, 2009 from 2pm until 4pm at the Northern Star Coffeehouse in Norcross.

If you’re an entrepreneur, angel investor, or VC you’re welcome to join us. If you’re not one of those three things, you’re welcome to stay away from this get together.

Feel free to RSVP below or on the Upcoming event. Or don’t and just show up. Whatever.

Also, do you find keeping up with these local events tough? If so, I’ve started an announcements only mailing list that you can subscribe to. Just send an email to atlstartups-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and you’ll get the announcements. I plan to keep the list postings to about one every few days at most but in no case more than one a day. Or you can just keep coming here to read the latest event scoop.

For the next Open Coffee, we’re heading back in town. It’ll be December 17, 2008 from 2pm until 4pm at the Starbucks at the Georgia Tech bookstore located at:

If you’re an entrepreneur, angel investor, or VC you’re welcome to join us. If you’re not one of those three things, you’re welcome to stay away from this get together.

Feel free to RSVP below or on the Upcoming event. Or don’t and just show up. Whatever.

Also, do you find keeping up with these local events tough? If so, I’ve started an announcements only mailing list that you can subscribe to. Just send an email to atlstartups-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and you’ll get the announcements. I plan to keep the list postings to about one every few days at most but in no case more than one a day. Or you can just keep coming here to read the latest event scoop.

For the next Open Coffee, we’re heading way, WAY outside the perimeter.  To Athens in fact.   It’ll be November 12, 2008 from 12pm until 1:30pm at the Espresso Royale located at:

297 E. Broad St.
Athens, Georgia 30601

If you’re an entrepreneur, angel investor, or VC you’re welcome to join us. If you’re not one of those three things, you’re welcome to stay away from this get together.

Feel free to RSVP below. Or don’t and just show up. Whatever.

After the event I’m heading over to UGA to speak to an entrepreneurship class.  I’ve been told I can bring along people too.  That class runs from 2pm until 4:45pm so if you want to come afterwards, you can just follow me along to UGA.

Also, do you find keeping up with these local events tough? If so, I’ve started an announcements only mailing list that you can subscribe to. Just send an email to atlstartups-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and you’ll get the announcements. I plan to keep the list postings to about one every few days at most but in no case more than one a day. Or you can just keep coming here to read the latest event scoop.

For the next Open Coffee, we’re heading to Buckhead. It’ll be November 5, 2008 from 2pm until 5pm at the Caribou Coffee located at:

3261 Peachtree Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30305

If you’re an entrepreneur, angel investor, or VC you’re welcome to join us. If you’re not one of those three things, you’re welcome to stay away from this get together.

Feel free to RSVP below or on the Upcoming event. Or don’t and just show up. Whatever.

Also, do you find keeping up with these local events tough? If so, I’ve started an announcements only mailing list that you can subscribe to. Just send an email to atlstartups-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and you’ll get the announcements. I plan to keep the list postings to about one every few days at most but in no case more than one a day. Or you can just keep coming here to read the latest event scoop.

For the next Open Coffee, we’re heading to Norcross.  It’ll be October 14, 2008 from 1pm until 4pm (note slightly earlier start and end times).

If you’re an entrepreneur, angel investor, or VC you’re welcome to join us. If you’re not one of those three things, you’re welcome to stay away from this get together.

Feel free to RSVP below or on the Upcoming event. Or don’t and just show up. Whatever.

Also, do you find keeping up with these local events tough?  If so, I’ve started an announcements only mailing list that you can subscribe to.  Just send an email to atlstartups-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and you’ll get the announcements.  I plan to keep the list postings to about one every few days at most but in no case more than one a day.  Or you can just keep coming here to read the latest event scoop.

I’m going to stop recounting how many people are showing up to these events now.  The number ebbs and flows depending on time, location, and other events.  Needless to say, it’s quite a few.

We’re going to mix it up for the upcoming Open Coffee and head up to Roswell.  It’ll be September 23, 2008 from 2pm until 5pm.  Keith McGreggor‘s wife is a co-owner of a shop up there and has agreed to let us hang out.  Before you ask, yes there is free WiFi.  I’ve also heard (mainly from Keith on Twitter) that the cookies are fantastic.  I’ll be the judge of that.  :-)

The address of the shop is: KellyKakes/Party Chic, 953 Canton Street, Roswell, GA 30075.  If you’re an entrepreneur, angel investor, or VC you’re welcome to join us. If you’re not one of those three things, you’re welcome to stay away from this get together.

Feel free to RSVP below or on the Upcoming event. Or don’t and just show up. Whatever.

We keep chugging along.  We had some 30+ people show up to Cafe Intermezzo last week to hang out for Open Coffee.  I won’t go through the list of folks who showed up but you can take a look at the photos and see who was there for yourself (thanks to Josh Watts for taking and posting the photos!).

The next Open Coffee will be back at Georgia Tech but this time we’re going to be in the Entrepreneurs Resource Center at ATDC.  We’ll be convening at 2pm until 5pm on September 9, 2008.  If you’re an entrepreneur, angel investor, or VC you’re welcome to join us.  If you’re not one of those three things, you’re welcome to stay away from this get together.

ATDC might be hooking us up with some drinks but I’m not sure how much and if it’ll sustain the large crowd that this tends to attract.  Feel free to RSVP below or on the Upcoming event.  Or don’t and just show up.  Whatever.

We really picked up steam for the last Open Coffee (get it? steam..  coffee.. ha!).  There were probably 40-45 people who came by to mix and mingle.  We had VCs, angels, and a bunch of entrepreneurs and hackers who came by to hang out and chat.  There was some discussion at the start about recent blog commentary but we quickly broke into smaller groups to talk about all kinds of random topics.

Thanks again to Greg Foster for letting me announce his attendance before hand (he posted a comment as to why he couldn’t stay the whole time).  I think Greg is going to try and come as is Alan Taetle from Noro-Moseley.  Also, thanks to Alan Koenning for showing up.  I totally didn’t know he was going to show which I think bodes well for how much folks want to get engaged in the local community.  Kudos!

So with that, here are the details of the next Open Coffee.  We’re going to do it on August 27th from 2pm until 5pm or so at Cafe Intermezzo Dunwoody across from Perimeter Mall (unlike the Starbucks at Georgia Tech, there is definitely free WiFi from 10am until 7pm at Cafe Intermezzo).  Some of you may realize that this is the same day as Capital Lounge.  Hopefully Open Coffee will be the pre-lounge get together for some of you.  I’m planning on grabbing some food after Open Coffee (perhaps at Alon’s?) and before heading to Capital Lounge.  Feel free to plan for that and tag along with me.  I’d be happy to have the company.

Note, I don’t manage, organize, or control Capital Lounge.  That’s another crew in town.  So don’t beg me for a pass to get into Capital Lounge.  I won’t be able to help you.

Feel free to let folks know you’ll be attending by leaving a comment, posting on the event on Upcoming.org, or just go stealth and show up.

Okay, so with all that activity last week I thought I’d hold off on announcing the next open coffee so that this didn’t get lost in the hub-bub.  On August 12th we’re going to do an Open Coffee at the Georgia Tech bookstore Starbucks.  We’re going to run from 2pm until 6pm.  I’m going to hang out and catch dinner afterward and then head to the AWSome meetup.  Anyone and everyone is welcome to join me (make sure you RSVP for the meetup if you’re going to that as well).

Also new for this event will be the announcement of one of the attendees.  Greg Foster, who recently joined Noro-Moseley Partners, will be there and happy to talk to any and all entrepreneurs about raising money from venture capitalists.  This is not an opportunity to pitch your deal to him but it is an opportunity to get some feedback from him to help you along your way.  Use the opportunity wisely.

And if you are a spreadsheet jockey, you’re welcome too.  We can help you understand why taking a purely financial view of companies is a silly way to think about things.  :-)

UPDATE: The Upcoming group for Open Coffee Atlanta is here.  The Upcoming event for this day is here.