STIRR 1.8 Alum Kongregate acquired by GameStop
Back in November 2006 Kongregate took the stage at STIRR 1.8 to tell the world about the coming casual games revolution. After launch, I think we all blamed Kongregate for hours of lost time playing games like Desktop Tower Defense and the Fancy Pants Adventures. Our congrats to Jim and Emily on Kongregate being acquired [...]
STIRR Alum Metaweb Acquired by Google
If you were with us back in March of 2007 you may remember Metaweb came out of Stealth on the STIRR stage. Our heartfelt congrats to the Metaweb team on the Google acquisition! We look forward to what comes from the combination of Metaweb’s semantic technology and Google’s scale.
FoundersTable returns in Q1 2010
A big note of thanks to our first FoundersTable sponsor of 2010. FirstRound Capital was gracious enough to help sponsor STIRR in 2010. As soon as we get everyone’s schedule worked out we’ll have a special announcement for the first FoundersTable of 2010.
We’re honored to have a huge influx of new applications, wow. If you’ve [...]
FoundersTable Form Fixed
Much to our chagrin it looks like the FoundersTable form had been broken ever since we upgraded wordpress. If you tried to apply before, head on over now to the new shiny Google Docs form: http://stirr.net/founders-table/
Congrats to Mint (a STIRR FoundersTable Alum)
Our heartfelt congrats to Aaron, Matt, Poornima and the entire Mint team and all the investors (FirstRound, Felicis Ventures, SoftTech VC, Shasta Ventures, et all). Aaron and Sanford crossed paths back when Mint was still a prototype on Aaron’s laptop. Aaron asked, “Do you think this is fundable?” Sanford replied, “Are you kidding?? Cancel your [...]
Women2’s Pitch 2009 – Deadline April 10th
==PITCH 2009: Napkin startup competition==
Michael Moritz of SEQUOIA Capital is listening.
http://pitch.women2.org
DEADLINE: April 10, 2009 (firm deadline)
Do you have the world’s next big idea? Here’s your chance to PITCH.
Michael Moritz (Sequoia) is listening! Put it on a paper napkin!
Women 2.0’s third-annual Startup Competition will provide your alpha,
beta, or prototype-stage startup with exposure to early stage
investors. Our [...]
Entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter
Andrew Chen writes a great blog and recently posted a good list of some bay area entrepreneurs to follow on twitter.
The list includes our friends and some fomer STIRR speakers: David Weekly (pbwiki), Scott Rafer (lookery), Ted Rheingold (dogster) and more.
You can find the full list here [Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen]
And you can find [...]
Two Other Good Startup Events in the Bay Area
After over 2 and a half years of producing high quality monthly events, the Bay Area STIRR team has been taking a long deserved break from public events for a little while. FoundersTable is still ongoing and we are accepting PitchLab applications so please feel free to apply for both.
In the meantime there are two [...]
Women 2.0’s Napkin Pitch 2009
==PITCH 2009: Napkin startup competition==
Michael Moritz of SEQUOIA Capital is listening.
http://pitch.women2.org
DEADLINE: April 10, 2009 (firm deadline)
Do you have the world’s next big idea? Here’s your chance to PITCH.
Michael Moritz (Sequoia) is listening! Put it on a paper napkin!
Women 2.0’s third-annual Startup Competition will provide your alpha,
beta, or prototype-stage startup with exposure to early stage
investors. Our [...]
Looking forward to 2009
A warm thank you to everyone in the STIRR family for a terrific 2008. Bay Area FoundersTable and Salon events kick off again in Feb 2009 and we look forward to seeing you then.