STIRR Deal Hacks (and STIRR Birthday!)

STIRR Deal Hacks (and STIRR Birthday!)

• Wednesday, May 14...6-9pm
• Bistro 412
• 412 Emerson Street
• Palo Alto CA

Join other founding teams and investors for STIRR's first Deal Hacks.

STIRR Celebrates It's 3rd year with a twist. This time we bring you two of the best early stage investors in the spotlight for Deal Hacks. Each VC will be sharing personal stories from the the investment side of the fence. They'll be available afterward for group Q&A.

Year 3!

This event kicks off STIRR's 3rd year. We'll be clebrating by returning to the site that started it all back in April 2006: Bistro 412 (formerly F&A's). The venue has a beautiful back patio and we've reserved the whole space just for STIRR.

Tickets: http://dealhacks.eventbrite.com

Who should attend?

• Founding Teams of launched Internet, Mobile, Enterprise, Software related BioTech and Cleantech
• VCs
• Qualified Angels
• Top level engineering talent
• Press (must qualify for pass: press@stirr.net)

Who shouldn't attend (these folks bring us down):

• No deal finders/middlemen
• Non-investing advisors (aka 'Advisory Capital')
• Unrelated consultants, service providers, tourists

STIRR's mixer events are designed to bring together the founding teams of early stage startups and later stage entrepreneurs. The events are created and hosted by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. STIRR events are never PR stunts or sales pitches and we never sell/rent our email lists.

Some of the venue and food cost have been graciously sponsored by:

Sun Microsystems - http://www.sun.com/startup

STIRR's 2nd Annual Statup Holiday Soiree (Dec 19) is almost sold out!

Announcing the STIRR Holiday Soiree: An upscale holiday gathering for entrepreneurs, their teams, loved ones, investors, social media moguls and more. We've secured one of the most beautiful venues in SF (the Julia Morgan Ballroom at the Merchants Exchange Building) and will fill it with free flowing wine, a Champagne Welcome, the culinary delights of Chef Paul, Live music + DJ + dance floor, and a great crowd of entrepreneurs and those that support them. If your startup hasn't had a holiday party yet (or wants a second), feel free to bring the team. We're partnering with our friends at Women2.0 and Girls in Tech to make this a night to remember. Ticket prices will start ratcheting up as we get closer to the date so please purchase before
the prices go up!

STIRR Founder Hacks III -Tuesday, November 13 (San Francisco)

Mighty

119 Utah Street
San Francisco, California 94103

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

There's no single playbook for how to grow a startup. Come hear some of the current tricks of the startup trade from financing to hiring to managing the board to scaling up and more. Each of our presenters are bringing one of their favorite hacks to share in STIRR's short-form format.

The Presenting Founders will kick things off around 7:20pm:

• Ev Williams, Founder - Twitter / Obvious Corp
• Michael Cerda, Founder - Jangl
• Jonathan Abrams, Founder - Friendster / Socializr

Both Ev and Michael will be available to speak with the attendees after the talk. We'll also have a short Q&A this month.

Previous talks:

• FounderHacks II
• FounderHacks I

Purchase tickets here.

More details on the Facebook event page.

STIRR Founder Hacks 2 - Wednesday, September 12 (San Francisco)

We are pleased to announce FounderHacks 2 - Wednesday September 12th, 6pm in San Francisco!

What are Founder Hacks? There is no single playbook for how to grow a startup. Come hear some of the current tricks of the startup trade from financing to hiring to managing to scaling up and more. Each of our presenters are bringing one of their favorite hacks to share in STIRR's short-form format.

The Presenting Founders will kick things off around 7:30pm:

• Patrick Koppula, Founder - Vadver
• Scott Rafer, Founder - Lookery
• To be announced...

Details

• When: Wednesday, September 12th. Gathering begins at 6:00pm, talks at 7:30pm.
• Where: Mighty, 113 Utah St, San Francisco
  
• Cost: Founding Teams of internet, enterprise, mobile or bio/cleantech companies: $10 pre-event/$20 at the door. All others (consulting, hr, pr, legal, accounting, design, etc): $20 pre-event/$30 at the door.
• Food: yes. Open bar from 6-7pm, no host bar after 7pm.
• Pre-printed nametags will be ready at the door for all pre-paid registrants.
• Register here
  

STIRR Founder Hacks was covered by the San Jose Mercury News

Nice! STIRR and the Founder Hacks event made the cover of the Business section and here's some video of the night as well.

I'll add more to this post later...

Demos at the STIRR FounderHacks event

Sure, the presentations are one reason to come to the STIRR FounderHacks event. But we also have some great demos for you:

• - share more content to more people in more places

• - people-powered customer service

• - a new Voice Entertainment Network

STIRR Founder Hacks - Wednesday, July 18, 2007

We are happy to announce our next event: STIRR Founder Hacks! What are Founder Hacks? Tricks of the startup trade from financing to hiring to managing to scaling up and more. Each of our presenters are bringing one of their favorite hacks to share in STIRR's short-form format.

Presenting Founders:

• Ted Rheingold, Top Dog, Dogster
• David Marks, CEO, Loomia
• David Weekly, CEO, PBWiki
• Munjal Shah, CEO, Riya/Like.com

Details:

• When: Wednesday, July 18th. Gathering begins at 5:30pm, talks at 7:00pm.
• Where: Trader Vics, 4269 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306
• Cost: Founding Teams of internet, enterprise, mobile or bio/cleantech companies: $10 with RSVP ($20 at the door). All others (consulting, hr, pr, legal, accounting, design, vc/angel, etc): $20 w/ RSVP ($30 at the door).
  
• Pre-printed nametags will be ready at the door for all pre-paid registrants. (Referrals welcome.)

STIRR Founders Mixer 2.4 (Palo Alto, CA)

The next STIRR Mixer is tonight (April 11) at Illusions in Palo Alto.

Presenters this month include:

• applicationexchange.com, Tim Delhaes, CEO
• edgeio, Keith Teare, Founder and CEO
• Spinn3r, Kevin Burton, Founder and CEO
• Xcellery, Reto Laemmler, Founder and CEO

Thanks to Pivotal Labs, SUN, and K&L Gates for being our sponsors!

Hope to see you there!

STIRR Sydney announces their presenters for next week

STIRR Sydney host Martin Wells lists the next wave of startups at the next Sydney STIRR Mixer on March 29th:

Omnidrive - WebFS
Rave About It
dLook
3eep
Booking Angel

STIRR Alumni in the News!

Congrats to the following STIRR Alumni for making some noise this month!

(STIRR 1.8) has received $1 million in funding


(STIRR 2.3) is profiled in a NY Times story, "Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching"


(STIRR 1.1) is profiled in a Forbes story, "The Ebay of Loans"


(STIRR 2.1) is profiled in a Forbes story, "Send in the Clouds"

STIRR Sydney 2 is on March 29th

The Aussies are back at it! On March 29th, they'll have their second STIRR event in Sydney. Will you be down under at the end of the month? If so, head on over to Ivory. Presenters lined up (so far) include: Omnidrive & Rave About It. Good luck to organizers Martin Wells & Mick Liubinskus.

STIRR Founders Mixer 2.3 (Palo Alto, CA)

The next STIRR Mixer has been announced for March 21st at Illusions in Palo Alto.

Presenters this time include:

• Buxfer, Ashwin Bharambe, Chairman
  
• Criteo, Jean-Baptiste Rudelle, CEO
• Metaweb, Jamie Taylor, Minister of Information
• Wrike, Andrew Filev, Founder

We may add one or two more before next week. Hope to see you there!

Thanks to SUN & their Startup Essentials Program for being our sponsor!

Not too shabby for a year of work

I ran www.stirr.net through this little wizard and voila...

My Site is worth
$47,689

How much is your site worth?

STIRR Founder's Mixer 2.2!

Wow...are we growing or what???

At next week's STIRR Founder's Mixer, Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystem's Chairman/Co-Founder will be speaking about challenges founders face.

This month's presenters (after this event, we'll have had 41 of them!):

• Attendio, Gerardo Capiel, CEO
• Collaborative Drug Discovery, Barry Bunin, President
• Confabb, Salim Ismail, Chairman
• JobCoin, Keith Schacht, CEO

Hope you can make it!

STIRR Founder's Mixer 2.1 - January 17, 2001

Wednesday January 17th

STIRR Founder's Mixers are blend of a mixer for technology entrepreneurs, investors, bloggers and press and launchpad for new startups with an innovative format (the 60 second spot). This is not a sit-down event.

The Original '60 Second Spot'

Mixer 2.1

The companies start presenting at 7:15pm. The presentations are a compact 60 seconds or less. The speakers and their teams are available to speak with one-on-one before and after the presentations.

• Stickis, Marc Meyer, CEO
• Vizu, Dan Beltramo, Founder
• WeatherBill, David Friedberg, CEO

Apply Online to present at STIRR

Details

• When: Wednesday January 17th. Gathering begins at 6:00pm, presentations at 7:15pm.
• Where: Illusions, 260 S. California Ave, Palo Alto [map]
• Cost: With RSVP: Founding Teams: $0, Engineers: $0, Angel/VC/Accredited Investors: $0, Press: $0, Service Providers: (legal, pr, consulting, etc): $30. RSVP required to attend. $50 w/o RSVP. Pre-printed nametags will be ready at the door.

Sponsor

Mixer 2.1 is being made possible by Sun Microsystems and their new startup friendly Startup Essentials program. Sun's hardware scales better than any off the shelf PC and the new release of Solaris introduces great features like ZFS, Containers, and a hyper-fast TCP/IP stack. ZFS elminates most of the drudgery of disk/filesystem and volume management, Containers let you setup testing, staging and deployment on a single box without worry, and the new TCP/IP stack will keep the pipe at the data center full. Combine the new OS with custom designed high-throughput hardware and Sun makes it possible to scale your service faster and more cost effectively than any off the shelf PC solution. You can sign-up for Startup Essentials here

Nick named a drink after us!

In the latest Nick Douglas' diggbait series, we are provided a listing of specialty cocktails for the tech world. STIRR is honored by having our own drink. Thanks Nick!

The Stirr Looks boozy, but it'll only make you more alert as you cruise your more sauced-up colleagues at an industry mixer. Ingredients: Coffee and whipped foam -- it's an Irish coffee without the Irish

STIRR Sydney 1.1 wrap-up

STIRR Sydney (110+ RSVPs!) had a great night! Congrats on great launch! There are some blog posts & also some pics. I'm sure as we move forward to different locales, we'll pick up some interesting ideas: like having the audience vote with $1MM dollar VC bills for the best pitch. Again...congrats!

[Update...here's some video of the event.]