[ECE PhiBar] Startups in the Bay
Jonathan Cornell
cornell.jonathan at gmail.com
Thu Mar 5 21:36:46 EST 2009
I miss the days when Phi-Bar was about Blue Moon specials before the
drink tax and a night was not complete without finding a reason to not
give Genevieve a tip. I expect a complete 180 come carnival.
<3 Cornell
Jesse Guss wrote:
> Did anyone else see Boris's email long before Dmitriy's? Did anyone
> else notice that the possessive versions of Russian names look silly?
> Is anyone else concerned that the ece-phi list is no longer being used
> for its intended purpose? That last one's probably my fault. I've
> just been hijacking threads this week. There's no stopping me.
>
> Oh, hey, a foreign national just sent you an email with "Boris"
> "Russian" and "hijacking" in it. Congratulations, you've been
> blacklisted by the US Government!
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Boris Lipchin <blipchin at ece.cmu.edu
> <mailto:blipchin at ece.cmu.edu>> wrote:
>
> Excellent. This is going to be the deal from now on.
>
> For every startup company contact I get, you win 2 beers from me the
> next time I'm in your area, and if you're in the bay area I'll be up
> there a whole bunch. So you can accrue quite a treasure if you
> try. And
> since this is all over email it's very easy to keep good score. Not to
> mention you guys know I'm good for it.
>
> Repeat companies, if it's a different contact win you only 1 beer
> after
> the first contact.
>
> Let the games begin. =) Dimitry currently has 2 beers.
>
> Boris
>
> Dmitriy Solomonov wrote:
> > I know of a good startup for that,
> > NgMoco.
> > They are an iPhone game company, but most of their success and
> > business resides on good marketing and business strategy to push out
> > games rather than a bunch of hackers in a room
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Boris Lipchin
> <blipchin at ece.cmu.edu <mailto:blipchin at ece.cmu.edu>
> > <mailto:blipchin at ece.cmu.edu <mailto:blipchin at ece.cmu.edu>>> wrote:
> >
> > She does a lot of business work, business plan development,
> and would
> > actually be of considerable help to a company. Many a
> company have
> > failed because they haven't had good
> > entrepreneurship/business/economics
> > sense. I'll chat with Bowei, thank guys. =)
> >
> > Boris
> >
> > Heer Robin Gandhi wrote:
> > > After Susan Bowei is your second best bet in Cali. His
> email is
> > bowei.gai at gmail.com <mailto:bowei.gai at gmail.com>
> <mailto:bowei.gai at gmail.com <mailto:bowei.gai at gmail.com>>
> > >
> > > He'll help out for sure.
> > >
> > > Heer
> > >
> > >
> > >> "non-engineering" isn't a field, and startups are generally
> > trying to
> > >> avoid spending money on account of how there isn't going
> to be
> > any more
> > >> for them in the foreseeable future. I'd talk to Bowai,
> though,
> > he knows
> > >> everybody.
> > >>
> > >> I have no idea how to contact him.
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Kendall Lowrey
> > >> <klowrey at andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:klowrey at andrew.cmu.edu>
> <mailto:klowrey at andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:klowrey at andrew.cmu.edu>>>wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> Walk around the bay area saying, "la-di-da-di-da, i'm a
> venture
> > >>> capitalist looking for young impressionable startup-ers to
> > pour money
> > >>> on!" - Show quoted text -
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Kartik Subramanian wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Start one!
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Boris Lipchin wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> Hey guys,
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> An old friend of mine is looking for startups in the bay
> > area to do
> > >>>>> some work (non-engineering) related. Does anyone have
> a good
> > >>>>> resource of where to find these 10-15 engineer
> companies? Or
> > >>>>> perhaps, personal recommendations would also work really
> > great. The
> > >>>>> ultimate question of the day is, how does one find
> startups?
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Cheers, Boris
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