DealHacks May 14th – Palo Alto [**SOLD OUT**]

Posted on April 30, 2008 by admin

Update: event is **SOLD OUT**. Please join us next time.

STIRR Brings Back the Startup Mixer for 2008 with a Twist.

Join other founding teams for STIRR’s first Startup Mixer of 2008.

STIRR Celebrates It’s 3rd year with a twist on the FounderHacks series. This time we bring you two of the best early stage investors and a terrific founder for contrast in ‘Deal Hacks’. Each speaker will be sharing personal stories from the the investment side of the fence.

If you haven’t joined us before, STIRR brings together founding teams of startups to connect and forge relationships. (This isn’t a pitch session and please don’t attend if your only goal is to find funding.) We feature great short-talks from notable founders, investors, and key thought leaders around the globe. This isn’t a sit-down event.

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FounderHacks All The Talks from 2007

Posted on April 30, 2008 by admin

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Migration Hiccups (Broken Images, Links, etc)

Posted on April 29, 2008 by admin

Moving In

We’re migrating the main STIRR site over to a shiny new WordPress blog. Pardon the chaos until things are settled. Much is broken: images, broken links, duplicated posts and all sorts of fun. More updates soon.

RSS Subscribers, you may wish to re-subscribe to STIRR (see links on right via feedburner).

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Women 2.0 Business Plan Competition

Posted on March 26, 2008 by patrick
Our friends over at Women 2.0 are hosting a terrific event targeted towards encouraging women entrepreneurs. Grab a napkin and a pen and enter before April 15th.

Most good business ideas are not germinated from a spreadsheet or powerpoint. All you need is a pen and a cocktail napkin. Doodling is a universal language and visual thinking has created many great companies (e.g. Southwest Airlines). Check out these great doodles on napkins on BusinessWeek, or the cool doodles at thebackofthenapkin.com.

The deadline to enter the Women 2.0 Business Plan Competition is EXTENDED TO APRIL 15, 2008. So pull together a team of at least 50% female representation to be eligible to enter (you can also enter as a solo female entrepreneur) and get started! All submissions will receive written feedback from the judges (read their bios here).

Top 5 finalists present LIVE to the judges at the Women 2.0 and Stanford Women in Business Conference on May 10, 2008 at Stanford. Winner is announced at the end of the conference and scores a meeting with the iconic Esther Dyson, along with a grab bag of legal and PR goodies.

ARE YOU IN? More info at http://pitch.women2.org

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Ev Williams “the accidental entrepreneur” in the Economist

Posted on January 2, 2008 by admin

Ev Williams Courtesy of The Economist

You may have seen him share a hack at FounderHacks III (talk video is here), but if you’d like to know more about Ev Williams there’s a great writeup about accidental entrepreneurship in the December Economist.

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Aydin Senkut Writeup in the NYT

Posted on December 28, 2007 by admin

The New York Times is running an article including Aydin Senkut from Felicis Ventues (STIRR Soiree 2 sponsor).  Congrats Aydin!

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STIRR’s Startup Holiday Soiree 2 Writeups and Photos

Posted on December 26, 2007 by admin

Photos and writeups of Soiree2 have been coming in:

STIRR Swings into the Holiday Season “STIRR has outdone themselves, yet again, with this year’s elegant and stylish Holiday Soiree in San Francisco. It summoned the a-listers and the up-and-coming entrepreneurs alike, and everything in between. All adorned suits and gowns – who knew geeks cleaned up so well. Champagne flowed, chocolate paired, conversations planted clusters of entrepreneurs in their place, and Lavay Smith decorated the ambiance with sultry swing.”

Stay Classy San Francisco: “Can a city go, in a year, from geek to chic? Unlikely. But consider this: A year ago, Stirr held its holiday mixer in the Exploratorium, a children’s museum full of science exhibits. This year, the place was the Julia Morgan Ballroom in the Merchants’ Exchange Building, right on the California Street cable-car line. Last night, as I made my way in, I was thinking to myself, “2007, or 1907?” Alas, the aura of gilded-era chic didn’t last much past the elevator ride up to the 15th floor. The first person I met was ubiquitous egoblogger Robert Scoble. Check out our gallery for pictures of actually-not-bad swing dancing — Stirr cofounder Sanford Barr, above, showed off his moves — and people in formal attire playing Wii.”

Julia Morgan Ballroom Elevates Startup Scene Thanks to STIRR.: “Sanford Barr, Sean Ness, and Dan Arkind have outdone themselves. The amazing organization of guests and kind hearted sponsors benefitted as well by mingling with the big personas that attended such as Robert Scoble and Brian Solis. The special details that kept on coming throughout the night were hors d’oerves from Chef Paul, Lavay Smith performing, and magician Robert Strong. It was obvious that everyone enjoyed their evening with these special touches that were promised and delivered by the thoughtful men of STIRR. Gold Sponsors Felicis Ventures, Gabriel Venture Partners, and Sun Microsystems made this event possible and I for one appreciate their support. After a night like last night, I would have to go way back to my college Prom in Manhattan to compare the venue.”

It sold out in under 6 days. All told we had about 420 people attend and a knockout time. There are additional photos from the event from Brian Solis, Alex Ho and if you have more, send us a note to ‘photos’ at this domain. Wishing everyone a terrific New Year. More photos after the fold:

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Details for Soiree2

Posted on December 18, 2007 by admin

Hello Soiree2 Ticket Holders. Have we got an evening in store for you!

Here’s the important stuff:

*) Dress up, this is semi-formal

*) Bring cards (raffles for 3 nice bottles of wine from Bottlenotes.com and one Sun server)

*) Wear shoes you can dance in

*) Show up at 6:30pm for Champagne and Chocolate – see below

*) Wine and Champagne are free until we run out, the rest of the bar is $cash and they don’t accept credit (atms down in the lobby if needed).

*) Our Soiree isn’t a sit down dinner but there will be plenty of freshly cooked of food both passed and stationed and nice tables and places to sit with a group if you’d like to. Chef Paul promises he’ll be producing fresh plates of yumminess out of the oven until 9:30pm. This isn’t re-heated catering faire, Paul is cooking on site.

Schedule:

6:30pm Champagne Reception by Bottlenotes.com with Chocolate from Charles Chocolates

7:15pm Brief Swing Dance lesson with Robert Strong

7:30pm Lavay Smith and the Red Hot Skillet Lickers Performance

8:30pm Brief Talks

8:40pm The Comedy Magic of Robert Strong (www.strongentertainment.com)

8:55pm Raffle drawings (Sun Server, 3 bottles of wine)

9:00pm Lavay Smith Set 2

10:00pm Dancing DJ’d by Pandora.com

12:00pm Event Ends

Recommended Parking Lots:

St. Mary’s Square Garage Richard Fehr

c/o Parking Concepts Inc. 415.956.8106, 415.433.4724 Fax

651 California Street

(between Grant & Kearny)

San Francisco, CA 94108

Each 30 minutes $2.00

All Day $24.00

Weekday Rates, After 6:00PM $10.00

Weekend Rates, All Day $10.00

Portsmouth Square Garage Roger Lee

733 Kearny Street (Between Clay & Washington) 415.982.6353

San Francisco, CA

Weekday & Weekend Rates

0-1 hours, $2.00 1-2 hours, $3.00

2-3 hours, $5.00 3-4 hours, $8.00

4-5 hours, $11.00 5-6 hours, $14.00

6-7 hours, $17.00 7-8 hours, $20.00

8-24 hours, 24.00

Between 6:00PM-4:00AM $8.00

Bank of America Center Ti Calija/Daron Kapeghian/Chi Wang

c/o Shorenstein Realty Services 415.433.4787, 415.433.7101 Fax

555 California Street (Enter on Pine Street)

between Montgomery & Kearny)

San Francisco, CA 94104

Each 20 minutes $4.00

All Day, Weekday Rate $33.00

Weekday Rates, After 5:00PM $10.00

Weekend Rates, 24 Hours $12.00

Embarcadero Center Parking Jeff Ogle and Alfred Chin

c/o AMPCO System Parking 415.772.0671

One Embarcadero (Between Battery & Clay)

Two Embarcadero (Between Clay & Davis)

Three Embarcadero (Between Clay & Drumm)

Four Embarcadero (Between Clay & Drumm)

San Francisco, CA 94111

Weekday Rates, Each 20 minutes $2.75

All Day, Weekday Rate $27.50

Evenings, 5:00PM-3:00AM $2.50 per hour

Weekend Rates, 10:00AM-3:00AM $2.50 per hour

 

 

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Soiree 2 is *SOLD OUT* (in 6 days)

Posted on December 14, 2007 by admin

It happened in less than 6 days, but Soiree2 is *sold out*. In case we receive additional sponsorship to offer more tickets, you can add yourself to the waitlist here.

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Holiday Soiree II

Posted on December 6, 2007 by admin

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