Soiree 2 is *SOLD OUT* (in 6 days)

It happened in less than 6 days, but Soiree2 is *sold out*. In case we receive additional sponsorship to offer more tickets, you can add yourself to the waitlist here.

Holiday Soiree II

The talks from FounderHacks III

Evan Williams, Jonathan Abrams and Michael Cerda shared their insights at STIRR’s FounderHacks III.

There were over 300 in attendance. Over 75% founding teams of early stage startups.

Here are the talks:



Ev Williams “Just Say No”



Jonathan Abrams “Common Wisdom sometimes isn’t”



Michael Cerda “Stick to your DNA”

The good folks over at Found|Read wrote about the talks here.

Kudos to Chef Paul for catering and the STIRR Armored Door Team for keeping the flow moving smoothly.

FounderHacks III - Nov 13th, San Francisco

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Founder’s Table Wed and a thanks to Jangl

It’s hard to believe we’ve been hosting our Founder’s Table dinners for a year and a half now.

We’re holding our next Founder’s Table in San Francisco this Wednesday. It’s a unique invite only working-dinner. If you’re a founder haven’t participated before, see the description here. and email founderstable [[at]] stirr [[dot]] net to apply to attend a future event.

A tip of the hat to Jangl for sponsoring Founder’s Table this month. There’s nothing nicer than a Founder’s Table Alum giving back. A big thanks to Michael, Tim and the Jangl crew!

FinNode’s Mobile Rules! Business Plan Competition is back

STIRR friend, Mark Addison, is again working with FinNode on a world-wide Mobile Rules! Business Plan Competition.  There are two tracks this year:

  • Mobile Applications (including multiplayer/connected games, multimedia, enterprise and infotainment):  entry deadline is January 25, 2008
  • Mobile Business Plans (novel ideas that create new value within the mobile ecosystem):  entry deadline is November 16, 2007

There will be one Grand Prize winner and two Runner-Up winners in each track.  Prizes will be a combination of cash, development assistance, high-level industry introductions and free products.

Good luck to all who enter!

The Talks from FounderHacks II

Our thanks to Scott Rafer, Patrick Koppula and James Currier. Here are the talks from FHII:



James Currier



Patrick Koppula



Scott Rafer

Thank you SF!

What an incredible turnout.  Thanks for the warm welcome back to SF.  It was 1 year ago today that we held our first event in San Francisco.   We’ll be back again soon.

A big round of thanks to James Currier, Scott Rafer, and Patrick Koppula for sharing their insights.

If you have photos, tag them ’stirr’, ‘founderhacks’, ‘founderhacks2′ on flickr or just send us a link to your favorite sharing site.

[update: the videos are here]

FounderHacks II - Prices go up at 12pm

If you haven’t grabbed tickets yet, head over to http://founderhacks2.eventbrite.com before the prices go up at 12pm.

Discount tickets end at 12pm today

Over 240 attendees, well over 65% founders in attendance, 3 great serial entrepreneurs speaking, 3 new startups demoing

Ticket prices go up at 12pm today (why? Because that’s when we print nametags and we’d like you to have a nice printed one).

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