Recent Goings

Last week I attended TECH Cocktail on Thursday evening in Wrigleyville. The evening was quite cold and a bit of snow, but that didn't hold down more than 400-500 local technology professionals from attending. It was a great networking event. I spoke with some of the local Chicago VC's and many of the local tech leaders from the area. TECH Cocktail leaders Eric and Frank (who I have not yet met) are to be congratulated for continuing to organize and pull off such events in Chicago and other cities. Chicago is sorely lacking in local networking and leadership in the tech community and events like these help to erase that problem.

This week I'm off to the (RW) Baird 2008 Business Solutions Conference in Boston. Devin Mathews here in Chicago invited me to the event and I'm looking forward to meeting some of the public and private firms that are presenting at the conference, as well as many from the investor community that will attend. The highlight just might be the conference dinner on Wednesday evening. The guest speaker is patriot's Head Coach, Bill Belichick. After the season they just completed I'm sure there are going to be a few great stories. I wonder if the event will be taped? :)

Comments

[Frank Gruber]

Thanks for coming out to TECH cocktail Chicago 7. Sorry we didn't get to connect. Maybe we can grab coffee sometime soon. Aside from last mixer event we just announced our first TECH cocktail CONFERENCE which will be followed up by TECH cocktail Chicago 8. Check it out here: http://techcocktailconference.com

[Eric Olson]

Thank you for the kind words Nick. Frank and I are really excited about Chicago tech and have been working (primarily through our TECH cocktail vehicle) to make things happen here for the last couple of years.

I would love to get together with you for lunch or a coffee in March. Any chance you would be interested? Let me know!

Cheers,
Eric