Here’s the important stuff:

*) Dress up, this is semi-formal

*) Bring cards (raffles for 3 nice bottles of wine from Bottlenotes.com and one Sun server)

*) Wear shoes you can dance in

*) Show up at 6:30pm for Champagne and Chocolate – see below

*) Wine and Champagne are free until we run out, the rest of the bar is $cash and they don’t accept credit (atms down in the lobby if needed).

*) Our Soiree isn’t a sit down dinner but there will be plenty of freshly cooked of food both passed and stationed and nice tables and places to sit with a group if you’d like to. Chef Paul promises he’ll be producing fresh plates of yumminess out of the oven until 9:30pm. This isn’t re-heated catering faire, Paul is cooking on site.

Schedule:

6:30pm Champagne Reception by Bottlenotes.com with Chocolate from Charles Chocolates

7:15pm Brief Swing Dance lesson with Robert Strong

7:30pm Lavay Smith and the Red Hot Skillet Lickers Performance

8:30pm Brief Talks

8:40pm The Comedy Magic of Robert Strong (www.strongentertainment.com)

8:55pm Raffle drawings (Sun Server, 3 bottles of wine)

9:00pm Lavay Smith Set 2

10:00pm Dancing DJ’d by Pandora.com

12:00pm Event Ends

Recommended Parking Lots:

St. Mary’s Square Garage Richard Fehr

c/o Parking Concepts Inc. 415.956.8106, 415.433.4724 Fax

651 California Street

(between Grant & Kearny)

San Francisco, CA 94108

Each 30 minutes $2.00

All Day $24.00

Weekday Rates, After 6:00PM $10.00

Weekend Rates, All Day $10.00

Portsmouth Square Garage Roger Lee

733 Kearny Street (Between Clay & Washington) 415.982.6353

San Francisco, CA

Weekday & Weekend Rates

0-1 hours, $2.00 1-2 hours, $3.00

2-3 hours, $5.00 3-4 hours, $8.00

4-5 hours, $11.00 5-6 hours, $14.00

6-7 hours, $17.00 7-8 hours, $20.00

8-24 hours, 24.00

Between 6:00PM-4:00AM $8.00

Bank of America Center Ti Calija/Daron Kapeghian/Chi Wang

c/o Shorenstein Realty Services 415.433.4787, 415.433.7101 Fax

555 California Street (Enter on Pine Street)

between Montgomery & Kearny)

San Francisco, CA 94104

Each 20 minutes $4.00

All Day, Weekday Rate $33.00

Weekday Rates, After 5:00PM $10.00

Weekend Rates, 24 Hours $12.00

Embarcadero Center Parking Jeff Ogle and Alfred Chin

c/o AMPCO System Parking 415.772.0671

One Embarcadero (Between Battery & Clay)

Two Embarcadero (Between Clay & Davis)

Three Embarcadero (Between Clay & Drumm)

Four Embarcadero (Between Clay & Drumm)

San Francisco, CA 94111

Weekday Rates, Each 20 minutes $2.75

All Day, Weekday Rate $27.50

Evenings, 5:00PM-3:00AM $2.50 per hour

Weekend Rates, 10:00AM-3:00AM $2.50 per hour

A sample of some of the logos from STIRR’s Winter Wonderland event.

On December 15, 2006 STIRR brought together over 120 startups for Winter Wonderland a full-scale holiday gala and sit down dinner for small startups that couldn’t afford a big end of year event for themselves. The event took place at the Exploratorium in San Francisco with a live Acapella group, Swing Band, terrific sit-down catered dinner and a space full of wonderful interactive science exhibits.

Gabriel Venture Partners brought together over 22k worth of amazing giveaways during the evening including a 42″ plasma TV, 150 high-end ipod stereo docks and more additional goodies than we could count. No one left empty handed.

A huge round of thank to the Gabriel team and all of the event sponsors that helped make the event possible. Also a special shoutout to Brian Solis for inspiring the name and hooking us up with Four Vines (including driving the bottles to us), Brian you’re the best. We look forward to next year!

Tim Chang and the Uprounds

Jingle Bells

Dishing out the dough
In the new Web two-oh way
O’er Sand Hill we go
Seeding all the way
Bells on cell phones ring
Mobile deals look bright
What fun it is when startups sell to Google overnight.

Jingle Bells, YouTube sells,
Facebook’s on the way,
Oh what fun it is to do
A hot deal every day.

Jingle Bells, YouTube sells,
Facebook’s on the way,
Oh what fun it is to ride
The bubble of the day.

A year or two ago
I thought I’d make a play
Put five million bucks
In a high-priced Series A…

The team was rather poor
The business plan was weak
But what the heck, it’s AJAX-based
We sold it at the peak.

Jingle Bells, YouTube sells
Facebook’s on the way!
Oh, what fun it is to do
A hot deal every day! (ka-ching!)

Transcription courtesy of Vallewag

The card matching mixer in action.

Winter Wonderland couldn’t have been made possible without the help of all of the sponsors who helped underwrite the cost of tickets down to $20. On behalf of the entrepreneurs and STIRR, a huge thank you to:

Platinum Sponsor

Gold Sponsor

Silver Sponsors

Benefactors

Wine Sponsors

Friends of STIRR

Special Thanks

Future Works PR

Flashpoint PR