This Monday, April 13th, 2009, from 9 to 11AM, all the writers that blog for Startup Pittsburgh will be attending Open Coffee Club at AlphaLab. If you’re interested in the Pittsburgh startup community, feel free to drop by and say hello.
The Open Coffee Club was started to encourage entrepreneurs, developers, and investors to organize real-world informal meetups to chat, network, and grow. This is a place to meet people, find out what’s going on nearby you, and then take part. Imagine it as a big open lounge where people come and go, talk to others in their industry, and informally showcase demos of what they are working on. The main goal of Open Coffee is to make investment more transparent to entrepreneurs, and to move away from the formalized “pitch” to an open conversation. Investors can give entrepreneurs really valuable feedback, and this environment is meant to foster that in a pressure-free way.
