Re: Sunday afternoon interesting event

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Sadly, I have other plans this afternoon.

Sounds pretty interesting and a good chance to "geek out".  Oh, well.

 > From: Bill Bruns <http://profiles.yahoo.com/billbruns>
 > Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 08:48:34 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > Hello Robert,
 > 
 > Tim Draper asked Consuelo (cc'd) to pull together 40 developers for a Private 
 > Reception to meet students at Draper University (www.draperuniversity.com) and 
 > Founders at Boost.vc (www.boost.vc).  Very specifically she was  asked to 
 > invite engineers/developers with back-end expertise.
 > 
 > would you be interested in attending?
 > Here is a little bit about the event. (It is this afternoon/evening).
 > 
 > The purpose of the Reception is to bring people together and spark 
 > conversation. We are hoping that new relationships, ideas, projects, and/or 
 > jobs form. Quite a few of the entrepreneurs are young with a business idea they 
 > are working on and lack technical expertise.
 > 
 > Tim Draper is the founder of Draper University, Adam Draper (Tim's son) founded 
 > the Boost.vc incubator. 
 > 
 > While Tim will be in attendance, he will be watching with interest to see who 
 > connects and if any unusual ideas form - he will not be taking pitches. However,
 >  if any interesting ideas are sparked they may be funded by Tim and others.
 > 
 > We are hoping that the following conversations might result:
 > 	* ideas / products are pulled together
 > 	* an engineer/developer may be compelled to join a team as CTO
 > 	* a business concept/product is intriguing and an engineer/developer expresses 
 > 	an interest in acting as a technical adviser
 > 	* perhaps a project or two might be identified