Date: Thursday 19th April (this coming Thursday)
Time: 18:00 (6pm)
Venue: Extreme Hotel, Corner New Church and Bree Streets, CAPE TOWN, Western Cape, South Africa Tel: +2721 488 2555
Charge: Free
Register (optional - if you prefer to just show up on the day, that’s fine as well): entrepreneur.meetup.com/1144/
Facebook Group: OpenCoffeeClub Cape Town
CoffeeClub is exploding around the world - take a look at www.opencoffeeclub.org
And this week, the first Coffee Club meet up is taking place in Cape Town.
If you’re an entrepreneur in the Internet space and are interested in meeting investors who are looking to invest in this space, then come have a cup of coffee at the Extreme Hotel.
No need to book - just show up on Thursday and come meet some other Internet entrepreneurs and Internet investors.
If you have any questions, post them below…
See you all Thursday.
UPDATE: April 16th 09:16 am
Thanks to Rafiq for submitting the Open Coffee Club Cape Town meet-up announcement I did to muti.co.za. We’re currently number 2 on the MUTI HOT LIST.
UPDATE: April 16th 09:25 am
As many of you know, I enjoy socialising working on Facebook, so I’ve set up a group on Facebook for the OpenCoffeeClub in Cape Town - the group is “OpenCoffeeClub Cape Town”
UPDATE: April 16th 10:15 am (this proves Internet speed!)
Saul Klein, the founder of the Open Coffee Club worldwide, just sent me the following email:
“Any pics you tag opencoffee in flickr will show up in opencoffeeclub.org as will
any blog posts tagged opencoffee”
So when you blog about the Cape Town event, include “opencoffee” as one of your tags, so that it shows up on the global opencoffeeclub.org site.
UPDATE: April 16th 10:44 am
Rob Stokes from Quirk posted the following on the GottaQuirk blog which nicely summarises the Open Coffee Club:
“The OpenCoffee club it seems was the brain child of Philip Wilkinson but is driven entirely by ex-Skype Marketing VP (and South African!), Saul Klein.
It began in London as an open forum for networking entrepreneur’s and investors in a way that reminds me of First Tuesday except with a far more open source or unconference vibe. I remember chatting to Nic about the first one which he attended and the feeling then was that it really had potential to grow into something great. Turns out he was right and thanks to Saul, after only 6 weeks it has already spread to over 25 events across the globe.”
17 responses so far ↓
1 hash // Apr 15, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Eric, this is a good idea. Thanks for making me aware of the other coffee clubs happening around the world too. I’m going to see if I can make the one in Palo Alto, CA this week since I’m here for a conference anyway.
Let us know how it goes.
2 Henk Kleynhans // Apr 15, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Awesome idea Eric!
See you there!
3 Marc // Apr 15, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Interesting Eric,
will come by for the ‘coffee’.
Marc
4 Marc // Apr 15, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Interesting, good to see something connecting the professional internet industry.
5 Eve D // Apr 15, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Sounds great! What time?
6 Eric Edelstein’s Entrepreneurial Escapade | Mike Stopforth // Apr 15, 2007 at 10:42 pm
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7 Eric // Apr 16, 2007 at 12:12 am
Eve - 6pm @ the Extreme Hotel (the building behind Relish)
EE
8 Max Kaizen // Apr 16, 2007 at 9:00 am
Rockin’ EE our RBBC grows up >> looking forward to it
9 Dave Duarte // Apr 16, 2007 at 10:18 am
Looking forward to it!
10 Vinny Lingham’s Blog » Blog Archive » Web 1.0 De Ja Vu // Apr 18, 2007 at 9:55 am
[...] it was started by Saul Klein in London. There will be a Cape Town meeting tomorrow so check it out. Eric Edelstein (incuBeta co-founder) also has some coverage on his [...]
11 Eric Edelstein » OpenCoffeeClub Cape Town - Thursday 17th May // May 8, 2007 at 10:36 am
[...] time round it’s going to be a little more organised than the first opencoffeeclub cape town meetup, although I’m not sure whether name badges or stickers are too formal? But it would be nice [...]
12 Jean // Dec 6, 2007 at 9:44 am
Will you hold a meeting in Durban anytime soon?
13 Eric // Dec 6, 2007 at 11:17 am
@Jean - I don’t think there is a Coffee Club happening in Durbs at the moment
There is one in Cape Town and a group in JHB (see DigitalGarage.co.za for details of the JHB one)
EE
14 Warren.Muir // Jan 14, 2008 at 10:23 am
hi eric.my name is warren.my friend and i have come up with a concept to improve a golfers swing,.light ,mobile,and viable to manufactor.im searching for potential investors.your help would be highly appreciated
15 Eric // Jan 14, 2008 at 10:42 am
Hi Warren - I replied to u via email. All the best EE
16 imraan // Feb 9, 2008 at 10:12 am
in an age where internet business are booming, i really want to start an online fashion store. i have a few idea’s. do you think South Africans consumers are ready to shop for trendy clothes on teh net??
17 DamionKutaeff // Mar 22, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I’m glad to join your conmunity,
and wish to assit as far as possible.
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