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April 20, 2007
Inside OpenCoffee London
Over at Tbites blog, from journalist Mike Butcher, there is a post and some pics of the latest London OpenCoffee event that was launched by Saul Klein, an early stage Web investor and a venture-partner at Index Ventures. If you haven't been to one but like us have seen the announcements from various cities, it's a rare low-down on who goes to these things (at least the London one) and why.
He's been covering Internet trends since the last cycle and can add some informed opinion in addition to just reporting who was there.
Tbites photos show standing room only.
Despite the idea coming from a rival VC, several others in Europe have picked up on it and are promoting get-togethers in their own cities under the OpenCoffee name, people like Paul Jozefak of Neuhaus Partners in Hamburg and Larry McDonald and Per von Zelowitz from Nordic Venture Partners.
It's typically held at Starbucks coffee shops, ones that didn't have much business during the mornings (which explains why Butcher was speculating about the presence of a Starbucks PR man).
Not all are at Starbucks though - in CapeTown (SA) it's a hotel and free drinks affair (Read Eric Edelstein NO Coffee @ 1st Open Coffee Club Cape Town)
Read OpenCoffee Roundup
Technorati search OpenCoffee
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