Andy Sack (of Judy's List) is hosting a weekly open forum for entrepreneurs, and I stopped by the first meeting this morning. I came late and talked with a few folks, but it seems like a good mix of people at different stages of their careers and businesses. It was a welcome dose of nostalgia — back in 1999-2000 when FiveSight was just raising an angel round and rolling-up its first customers, I was a regular attendee at monthly founder-only networking dinners (usually at Reza's downtown) hosted by Paul Doyle (of ProofSpace, then and now). The Chicago dinners scaled up to about 70 people at the peak but ended when the bubble burst and implosion of Divine Interventures dragged-down most of the companies.
I don't know that I'll go weekly, but I'll attend regularly.
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