SF New Tech: Demos, Schmoozing, Drinks, Tacos
Last night, I had the pleasure of attending my first SF New Tech, a monthly gathering of the tech industry – over demos, schmoozing, drinks, and free tacos!
SF New Tech has been held every month for 3 years, since 8 people including founder Myles Weissleder first started getting together for beers at Mars Bars. It’s since grown into what Myles referred to (lovingly) last night as “the heart and soul of the tech community.”
There were about 150-200 people in the audience – half of whom were attending for the first time. (By the way, nearly 100% of the audience is on Twitter and 3/4 involved in a start up.) We heard 5 great companies demo, including itiBiti (on their new NBC Communicator which is live), Webvanta (a new CMS), reframeit (a web annotation service), NationalBLS (a listing of real estate buyers), and Smedule (an appointment service).
It’s great to be a part of such a vibrant community. Really intelligent, passionate, creative and hardworking people under one roof. And, I imagine that attending a monthly event where new start ups demo can really keep the excitement and creative juices flowing. It certainly did for me – I’ve got a couple ideas for blog posts.
The pic above is from the SF New Tech website at a previous venue. Unfortunately I don’t have any pics to share of my own because the current venue, The Mighty, is a nightclub on most other nights and too dark for my iPhone camera.
When I was younger :), I used to get all done up to go dancing at The Mighty. Now I’d prefer to sit around and geek out with a bunch of other geeks!
