Posted on March 2, 2007 at 12:49 am | 
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I attended the OpenCoffee meeting on Regent Street this morning. Well done to Saul Klein for kicking this off.
I expected to hook up with most of the usual suspects that I meet at other events around London. I envisaged 15 to 20 people huddled in a corner, exchanging stories about their investor related (or lack of) war wounds in between writing blog posts and email.
How wrong I was. Starbucks had been transformed into a business centre by approximately 100 entrepreneurs, investors and bloggers. If I’m honest, I hope it doesn’t continue to be that busy. I don’t want to bounce around the room like I do at other events. I just want to sit down to fireside chats that are more informal and relaxed. I get the impression the next one will be just as busy though as it’s likely to be attended by the people who couldn’t make it today.
It was cool to meet a new people I recognised from the MyBlogLog photos on this blog.
It’s a shame there wasn’t free WiFi though, perhaps investors should take it in turn to sponsor it each week. I’m sure they can afford it!
Thanks to Mike from Vecosys for the photos. Mike has also written a good post about the morning on Vecosys.
Eoghan has started something in Dublin too. I hope it went well.
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March 2, 2007 @ 
John Wilson
Paul, enjoyed meeting you today. As I’ve just posted on my blog, I don’t think we need wifi at the event - this is about “talent” introducing themselves to “money”. This means a brief 5 mins explanation of what you do and what you are looking for. If the investor is interested and you fit their investment profile (sector, size etc) then you can do a follow up meeting.
If people do think their site is the best communicator, then after doing an intro simply invite the investor to look at your site after the event and get agreement you can follow up.
Remember, the investor is there to meet lots of people as well.