Only For "STARTUPreneurs" in Altanta.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11823

by rokhayakebe • 19 years ago

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rokhayakebe14• 19 years ago

If you are working on a startup and you live in Atlanta, we should all get together, talk about our ventures and help each other. Three entrepreneurs so far.

mattculbreth3• 19 years ago

Sure, good idea. My email address is in my profile here.

nandan4• 19 years ago

Count me in. :) My email address is also in my profile.

rokhayakebe14• 19 years ago

What's up Nandan. I can't see it. Email me at globalrep@tmo.blackberry.net. We can set something up.

jonesmc4• 19 years ago

I'm in as well but you know there is a meetup group in Atlanta called Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs? http://web.meetup.com/32/ hopefully that link works, if not just search it on meetup.com. I think the meetings do have some fee though, like $10 or something (maybe that was a special meeting, not sure).

It would be nice to just have a very casual time and place to hang out and discuss wisdom of crowds, python vs. ruby, turbogears vs. rails, Mochikit, etc... and see what each other is working on, no fee, no requirements, just meet at Carribou at Perimeter Mall (Abernathy) on Thursday evenings? you will be recognized by your Mac book and a Rage Against the Machine t-shirt :)

rokhayakebe14• 19 years ago

I totally agree. Nothing complicated. I don't know about anything that makes me pay to chat. I am not too far from perimeter. Send me an email and we can set up something for all of us. Globalrep@tmo.blackberry.net

rokhayakebe14• 19 years ago

PS. John. C cool que tu parles francais. On devrait vraiment se rencontrer ASAP.

jonesmc4• 19 years ago

Je parle français un peu :) There is a French language meetup group that hopefully is going to move their normal meetup location to the Le Madelaine on Abernathy soon, their fee is only a $1 donation and it's pretty difficult to find people interested in speaking French in these parts so probably worth it. Soon everything will be attainable on Abernathy! C'est vrai!

azsromej• 19 years ago

Add me to the list. I'd also be curious to know where in the metro area everyone lives. That might suggest the most convenient meetup location.

http://www.blursoft.com/devFarm/gmeetup/index.php?m=33

rokhayakebe14• 19 years ago

Watch out PG. here comes the Acombinator.

brianculler4• 19 years ago

I'm in a startup with azsromej, so count me in as well.

As far as having meet n greets, I'd propose somewhere in Midtown. Thats where Tech is, its where Technology Square is, its where all the growth is. The Perimeter area is just full of old established insurance companies, marketing and spamming companies -- the "old school" suits. Midtown is where all the young professionals and visionaries are, plus its literally the only place centralized to all of the metro atlanta area instead of just the northern edge like Perimeter would be.

Just my two cents ;)

rokhayakebe14• 19 years ago

What's up. That sounds ok. Guys can you all send in your email addresses so we can round up. Your profile does not show your email addresses. Or everybody can just throw in a place to meet and time and we vote for the best. That way no one will spam noone in the future.

brianculler4• 19 years ago

Send in our email addresses to whom? We need to elect one person to be the organizer of all of this or something.

Just as a note, we (azsromej and I) registered the domain startup20.com a few months ago. Never really did anything with it except put up a logo. I'd be happy to put a wiki or something just to keep track of meet up dates / locations.

The ATL entrepreneurs link that was already posted would have worked but they are charging $10? Whats up with that? Just meet somewhere and have some sushi or drinks or something.

I have a friend who is originally from brazil who has a lot of VC contacts down there, and according to him they are all itching to get their claws into some american startups, because there's simply not much entrepreneuriship going on in brazil outside of banana stands. He lives in tennessee though, but he said he is very very interested in coming down for some of these meet n greets with atlanta area startups. So I'll see if I can get him to tag along to one or two.

nandan4• 19 years ago

i second midtown! :) perimeter is a little too far for me to be able to make it on a consistent basis. my email address is nandan.naik (at) gmail.com

rokhayakebe14• 19 years ago

Update. On top of our team, we got Brian (and friends), Matt(and friends), Azromej, Nandan, and Jonesmc ( si on peut te joindre, sinon je ferrais une update avec la date et le lieu )

wammin• 19 years ago

I am totally in. I'm in the buckhead area, but meeting location doesn't matter. nate@wamily.com

rokhayakebe14• 19 years ago

Hi everybody. I am sneaking this comment while on my boss time. Man I hope he truly the last one I ll have. We are getting a good response. Now meeting up is only a matter of making sure everyone make s it. So far most of you want to meet sometimes next week (frankly I am so exited that I would do it tonight, but it would not work for the rest of us). Most of us are suggesting midtown. That is fine. As soon as we know the best time and date for all we will email and put another post on yc news. PS. Everybody seems to have dbe some work with RoR. Well I hate to say it but I am not a coder(please don't be mad), although I like to learn about coding languages. Well maybe this group will throw in some help. LOL. Can't wait to meet you guys.

mattculbreth3• 19 years ago

NOT A CODER?! Ok, we're gonna fix that immediately.

rokhayakebe14• 19 years ago

Please Help.

nandan4• 19 years ago

LOL :)

rokhayakebe14• 19 years ago

Update. Nate from Wamily is IN. That's what's up.

jonesmc4• 19 years ago

I still think Perimeter or maybe Buckhead is the most central to where the majority of people in the Atlanta tech industry live and work but I'm up for any location at least once. If I have to sit in hours of traffic to get there though you guys better be really f'in interesting and visionary.

cyu• 19 years ago

I'm in as well. -- Calvin (cyu at mynextdive.com)

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