Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Meetup a Success

February 14, 2007

A couple weeks ago I announced the first ever Montreal Technology Entrepreneur Breakfast Meetup, spurred on by Julien Smith, Hugh McGuire and others. It was easy to do and I had no real expectations on turn out.

Well, people came. 30 or so people showed up and it was amazing. We took over half the restaurant and everyone was surprised to see so many other people.

And there are more people in Montreal doing cool, secret startups than you know.

I wish I had pictures, but I’m possibly the worst photographer ever. We’ll make a better effort next time.

Round II of the Meetup is scheduled for March 13, 2007 – 8:00am – 10:00am. Please sign-up.

I hope more people will come, spurred by the success of the first gathering. I’d also like everyone who was there to contact me via email – I got most of your cards but not everyone had one, and I don’t have everyone’s contact information. I’d like to list everyone and stay in touch. And if you blog about it, let me know. Carl Mercier might be the first…

And thank you for showing up early in the morning, talking tech, entrepreneurship, business and more.

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Comments
  • Good work Ben, it was fun. We should make a group on like Facebook or something else with profiles and photos, so we can have an idea of who everyone is, cause the group's probably gonna grow...
  • a list of URLs (blog & business) would be useful too! good job organizing ben.
  • Hugh - that's my plan - to put a list together and at minimum put that list on Instigator Blog somewhere for people to check out. So hopefully everyone sends me their contact info soon...

    In the next day or so I'll put up the ones that I know / and the information I have.
  • Rob
    I hope to be at the next one - congrats on its success.

    May I also suggest "Marketers Anonymous", for those of us who prefer the pub to the breakfast table. Could be a good spin-off event. ;)
  • Rob - although the evening affairs can be quite fun, I've got too many responsibilities at home (read: young kid) to do the pub scene too often. That's why I picked breakfast...but I'm all for spin-off events.

    And I hope to see you in March.

    If you use Upcoming, the event is listed here.
  • Sounds like a cool event...you should podcast the next one!
  • Sorry I missed it. I've added the March date to my Outlook. See you then. I'll bring my M-Audio for some recording fun.
  • Hope to see you there Mitch.
  • I'll there tomorrow.
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