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One of the great benefits of moderating FoundersTable is getting to see some terrific veteran entrepreneurs in action solving startup challenges of the attendees on the fly. Munjal Shah (Like.com) is one of those sharp thinkers that’s a pleasure to … Continue reading →

Back in November 2006 Kongregate took the stage at STIRR 1.8 to tell the world about the coming casual games revolution.  After launch, I think we all blamed Kongregate for hours of lost time playing games like Desktop Tower Defense … Continue reading →

A big note of thanks to our first FoundersTable sponsor of 2010.  FirstRound Capital was gracious enough to help sponsor STIRR in 2010.  As soon as we get everyone’s schedule worked out we’ll have a special announcement for the first … Continue reading →

Hats off to Aaron, Matt, Poornima, the entire Mint team and all the investors (FirstRound, Felicis Ventures, SoftTech VC, Shasta Ventures, et all).  Aaron and Sanford crossed paths back when Mint was still a prototype on Aaron’s laptop.  Aaron asked … Continue reading →

Our friends over at Women2 asked us to put in the good word about their Pitch Night event featuring a meeting with Michael Moritz of Sequoia.  We’ll let the Women2 team put it in their own words: ==PITCH 2009: Napkin … Continue reading →

Andrew Chen writes a great blog and recently posted a good list of some bay area entrepreneurs to follow on twitter. The list includes our friends and some fomer STIRR speakers: David Weekly (pbwiki), Scott Rafer (lookery), Ted Rheingold (dogster) … Continue reading →

After 2 years of producing multiple monthly events, the Bay Area STIRR team has been taking a long deserved break.  FoundersTable is still ongoing and we are accepting PitchLab applications so please feel free to apply for both. [update: we … Continue reading →

********************************************************************* WOMEN 2.0 “MUSIC MAKERS AND TECHNOLOGY SHAKERS” Event details – http://www.women2.org/october-2008-music-and-tech/ Eventbrite registration – http://musicandtech.eventbrite.com/ ********************************************************************* Women 2.0 proudly showcases an impressive lineup of artists and entrepreneurs in the music space. Join us for “Music Makers and Technology Shakers” … Continue reading →

As promised, some more details on the upcoming STIRR Canada Tech Mixer in Calgary: How Canada’s AbeBooks engineered its multi-million dollar sale Boris Wertz, CEO at Nexopia & Director at Abebooks (photo courtesy of Kris Krug, via a Creative Commons … Continue reading →