[ECE PhiBar] Startups in the Bay
Jesse Guss
jesseguss at gmail.com
Thu Mar 5 21:49:47 EST 2009
Now, I love messing with Genevieve as much as the next guy. In fact, my
irrational love of Free Bird is almost entirely a result of how angry she
gets when someone puts it on the Juke box. I started this email intending
to defend Genevieve and chastise you for being such a cad, but the energy I
spent phrasing the second sentence made me forget why I cared. Who will be
responsible for providing the curly straws during carnival? She *hates*that.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Jonathan Cornell <cornell.jonathan at gmail.com
> wrote:
> 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:
>
> - Show quoted text -
> 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>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>> 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>
>> > >
>> > > 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>>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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