[ECE PhiBar] Startups in the Bay
Boris Lipchin
blipchin at ece.cmu.edu
Thu Mar 5 22:08:35 EST 2009
Not Jennifer, Genevieve rather, sorry. Mis-written.
Boris Lipchin wrote:
> Now that conversation has turned to Jennifer, I'm going to have to
> tell you guys a story.
>
> It was Thursday night, I had left my credit card at Phi Bar the night
> before, as I had used it as a tab. Upon arriving to Phi Bar and seeing
> Genevieve behind the bar I made eye contact and was about to start
> talking when Genevieve preempted me with a "I'm not working right
> now." At which point I turned to the other bar tended to ask for my
> credit card back. However, I was once more preempted by Genevieve's
> "Oh, did you ever get your credit card back?" I had to tell her that I
> had not, and I was in the process of doing so. She immediately awarded
> me something that might have been a smile and said "Oh that's fine,
> I'll get it, it's upstairs" and ran off. She came back moments later
> and handed me credit card and receipt with the words "But you can't
> pay tip." I was somewhat dumbfounded at this statement, but decided
> not to question it, so I reached for my wallet where I knew I had my
> $2 in cash, previously meant for Mountain Dew in the Hammerschlag
> vending machine, but now would have to be handed over to Phi Bar if I
> ever want to get drinks there again. Upon seeing my wallet Genevieve
> did something that perhaps none of us expected. She, now standing on
> my side of the bar, sat down, leaned on the bar sideways facing me and
> said "Why don't you just buy me a drink instead, I'm not working
> tonight." Thunder on a clear day rang, and I suddenly realized that it
> was time to make a decision that will have serious consequences
> whichever way I went. However, Heer and Many where patiently waiting
> outside, so my hand was forced. "Sorry, I'm actually kind of busy,
> gotta run" earned a disapproving stare that did little to improve when
> padded with my last $2 (I wasn't willing to part with the $10). I
> quickly escaped from the bar, and satisfied that we weren't being
> pursued, returned to the safety of the cluster.
>
> Your thoughts? This is all true by the way.
>
> Boris
>
> Jesse Guss wrote:
>> 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 <mailto: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 <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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