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MiniBar September Meetup

Sep 2008 26

Fri 6:00 PM

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Estimated attendance: 246 people attended.
4.0022
Who organized?
Christian

In September we have special focus on 'Swedish web startup's' in partnership with LBi (who also happen to be listed on the Swedish stock exchange). Anders Fredriksson - one of last years SeedCamp winners - is organizing the trip to London.

The program is:

Bambuser: Måns Adler, Founder; Jonas Vig
CEO & Co-Founder

Videoplaza: Alfred Rut, co-founder; Sorosh Tavakoli, CEO & co-founder

Jaycut: Jonas Hombert, Founder

Moyume: Peter Sandberg, co-founder

The MiniBar Mantra

MiniBar is a social evening in East London which offers people a chance to snaffle some free beer while discussing p2p, Creative Commons, web applications, social networking and general Web 2.0 (3.0) mayhem & fandango.

Here you can find people who will help you making your next project work. The event is what we call 'useful fun'. Usually there are 200+ of London's - and beyond - finest web entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, tech journalists, bloggers, VC?s, and technology freaks.

What we offer:

- Web-Entrepreneurs can present their start-up and tech ideas
- Presentations will be archived at openbusiness.cc/minibar
- Some start ups will be featured on O'Reilly GMT, the European O'Reilly blog

And of course, Free Drinks, A Lot of Fun and many Useful People

Who you will meet?

From famous digerati and tech investors such as Esther Dyson (angel investor in Flickr and delcious), Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu), to tech journalists (Guardian, BBC), bloggers (OpenBusiness etc), Open Source developers (Drupal, Ubuntu), web designers, Creative Commons enthusiasts, web entrepreneurs (last.fm, eCourier, Tioti) to many coders, media artists and other generally useful, interesting and hyper connected people.
Past presentations include: Drupal user group, Esther Dyson, Directionless.info, Magnatune, BookMoch, Tioti, Modfilms, BurnStation, Mix&Mash

More Info at: OpenBusiness.cc and barcamp.org/minibar

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Who attended?

246 attendees
- Anthony Hunt
  
  “ Great to hear about some exciting and progressive startups from Sweden. ”
- gawain
  
  “ couldnt hear anything. bad audio venue chaotic didnt get any free drinks ”
- Nick Donnelly
  
  “ Sweedish angle - interesting to see what other countries are doing. ”
- Kate Mayfield
  
  “ Very good - I will attend again and ensure I can stay for all the pitches Useful for me on both awareness of things that clients might want to use/licence Developing ideas for one's own business that use new web applications ”
- Sanchez (+3 guests)
  
  “ I was really looking forward to this, but it was an awful location, **extremely** noisy and inappropriate and hard to find. I wasn't greeted by anyone upon my arrival, wandered around for a few minutes and just decided to leave without speaking to anyone. I would much rather this was in a more upscale bar, with low chill out background/elevator music where I was greeted by someone at the door. Having "tagged" tables that are more inviting to join would also help a lot. Never again!! :-( ”
- Ade (+1 guest)
  
  “ I really enjoyed it. I got to meet people with different views to mine but who could articulate their views well. I also thought the mix of entrepreneurs was good. However, I didn't feel many of them could clearly express what their business models were and the long-term sustainability of their businesses. ”
- Richard Gallon (+1 guest)
  
  “ Great presentations and interesting ideas, but hard to hear what is being said some of the time. ”
- Steve Ganly
  
  “ A great meetup group, as ever. Caught up with some old contacts, made some new ones, including one potentially fabulous one... Highly recommended group. ”
- Ian Dowson
  
  “ Another excellent Mini Bar meeting - the Swedish theme was a good idea. Forue very well worked out ideas presented. I can't believe there are that many smart people out there in London to network with. Keep at it and be persistant youll make it ”
- Yuri (+1 guest)
- Michelle Lyons
- Julia Eilon
- Luke Aviet
- Vincent Camara
- Dan Mackie
- orange squash
- Alfred Ruth
- Alison
- Anna Bance
- Charlie (+1 guest)
- Richard Taylor
- Christian (+2 guests)
- Radek
- Ged Carroll
- Jonas Hombert
- hermione
- Darren
- Meg
- James Norris (+1 guest)
- Paul Magnowski (+1 guest)
- Linda Mattacks
- Andrew McDonough
- Cragg Nilson
- Samuel Serra
- Greg Harvey
- jodie
- Melanie
- Paul Dowling
- Dieter Lang
- Jon Reay
- Simon Turner (+1 guest)
- David Owens
- Dan
- Barry Vitou
- Richard Ashley
- Nuno
- Alex Moore
- Danvers Baillieu
- Andrew
- Oliver Mardling (+2 guests)