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Reverse VC Pitch Party (#vcSecrets)


VCs are here to charm you during Stanford's eWeek. eWeek = Entrepreneurship Week February 22-26.

Normally, you pitch VCs.

Well at my event on February 24, VCs will be pitching you. Think of it as Sadie Hawkins night for entrepreneurs.

Sadie Hawkins are turn-about dances are where girls ask guys out. Since VCs have been compared to popular high-school girls, I thought Sadie Hawkins themed entrepreneur event might be cool.

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"This is a party I'd crash if I weren't hosting it."
- Larry Chiang
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This is launching at Stanford. We will be doing events in Portland, SD, Pasadena, Evanston, Manhattan, Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley, San Francisco, Dallas, Columbus, Bloomington, Champaign IL and debuting in Austin at SXSW


Where : Near the GSB. Address texted 5:05pm night-of-party. Hint, it's near Stanford Oval in Stanford CA 94305
Co-hosts : HBS-ers, engineers, founders and VCs
Featured Guests: VCs, VC admins, associates, and Future VCs (i.e. I sold my company to AmericanExpress/ Intuit/SalesForce/eBay)
Party Secretary : Larry Chiang*
* Larry Chiang is also the founder and only member of his fan club on facebook :-/

When : 6pm - 8:30pm, Feb 24, 2010
RSVP here: http://bit.ly/vc0224

How to redundantly RSVP : Text message, 650-283-8008, to RSVP. Include your full name, title AND org, email address, eWeek.

FOR example, text message, "hi Larry, John Smith / CEO-founder / John @ProsperAss .com/ vcGSB RSVP yes for 24th". One RSVP per text message. One person per text message. Preference will be given to proper RSVPs.

How to value addedly RSVP : Genius stuff they don't teach you at B-school: Coincide a tweet with your RSVP. "I am looking forward to @larrychiang's Reverse VC Pitch Party Feb 24 - http://bit.ly/vc0224"

Capacity : 220. This party will sell out. No, we won't be booking a bigger venue. No, there is no waitlist.

PRESS : If you're an editor / blogger / writer / photographer, text or tweet me, the party secretary, @6502838008 / @larrychiang My office hours are 11:11 am/pm


My Agenda: Produce a party where VCs woo and charm YOU.

** SCHEDULE **
5:55pm - 6:20pm Registration
6:30pm - 8:00pm Passed Start-Up Hors D'oeuvres (aka pizza)  (No-host drinks)
6:40pm - 6:50pm VCs Introduced
6:50pm - 8:30pm Networking

8:40pm - 9:30pm Afterparty at Tressider Fraiche (sponsored in part by Topix )

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See you soon,

Larry Chiang
P.S. Tweet out this party, www.duck9.com/24

 

The last party was here:

LAST MIN RSVPs (press ONLY): Text message, the party secretary, Larry Chiang at 650-283-8008 Include your full name/twitter, title & blog URL +email address, #vcSecrets.

FOR example, text message from 925-342-xxxx:, "Mike Arrington / Editor -founder / tips@TechCrunch.com/ #vcGSB". One entry per text message. I did the contest before Web 2.0 Summit too and the winner was picked on a blog called VentureBeat. One blogger per text message.

Text me your questions