If you live in London, you can spend every day/evening attending events, meeting fellow “Silicon Roundabout” startups and if you are very lucky, you might even bump into a fabled VC or London’s very own “Super” Angel.
But not everyone lives in London and not every single successful VC, startup or serial entrepreneur is based in London which is why my friends and I (#flowerytweetup) have been hosting regional startup events in Manchester and Brighton, but oddly we’ve never hosted an event in Bristol?
So Mark Panay (@redeye) from ContactZilla, Angus Fox (@nuxnix) from Twitter’s Developer Nest and I (@ssethi) decided that it would be a good idea to organise an informal get together of local digital startups and investors in order to share experiences and ideas in a very cool venue with a few drinks and some music.
Or as Mark put it simply and elegantly ”An evening about how to get shit done outside of London“.
So we have gathered a small line up of start-up Founders and Angels, both locally and from London, who’ve already raised money, built their business and made a few mistakes, who are prepared to answer your questions and impart some of their experience.
So if you fancy coming along, please RSVP to get into the venue and redeem it for a free cocktail courtesy of Ruth at Amoeba. There will also be a limited free bar courtesy of Coull and Zubworld (Thanks for your support guys).
And finally … even though this event is free, I would ask you all to please consider donating a small amount to the Everyman Male Cancer Campaign.
So Friday 15th October, 200+ geeks gathered at the Odeon cinema in Covent Garden to watch The Social Network, a film focused on depicting the birth and growth of facebook. Well here at the Flowerytweetup HQ we wanted to make sure our friends got the best seats in the house with some drinks to help keep the conversation flowing.
Well as you can see, we had 200+ in a fully packed screen 5 and from the tweet stream it seems everyone had a great night, met some interesting people and also appreciated the wine and beer.
Thanks to our helpers on the night, getting 200 people into the cinema, allocating tickets and making certain they had a drink within 45 minutes was a challenge, but they did a great job and go check out the pictures from the night from our lovely one and only @dalmaine as well.
Lammars Restaurant & Bar
Fourways House
57 Hilton Street
Manchester
M1 2EJ
So we have the first Flowerytweetup Manchester, bringing the flowery apparel back home. Please join us for a few drinks provided by The man in the shirt, Journey 9 and Gabba in the first gathering of flowery loving northern based digital thinkers.
The idea is that you must be wearing flowery apparel to attend, and enjoy stimulating conversations with people from digital backgrounds, academia, creative, banking, music etc all walks of life, that will mean rather than attending a closed focus networking event you are at one which is open wide and has a vast reach in terms of getting up to date with the latest technology or whats happening in a sector.
We have a private room and bar, with no background noise so you can chat and talk in great surroundings whilst sharing information and making new contacts.
We’d just like to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who helped us with our very first #flowerytweetup, especially Dusan from Trader Vic’s and Simon Green from BLAQUA.
An extra special thank you also goes out to our flowery photographer Gail who managed to capture the atmosphere perfectly.
Finally, the biggest thank you MUST go to our fabulously floral guests. You made it the success it was and it just wouldn’t have been the same without you.
Our good friend Drew Ellis from LikeMinds has kindly donated a prize to be given away for the best flowery shirt at #flowerytweetup.
The Hawaiian Shirt is a comprehensive tome covering all aspects of that particular branch of the flowery shirt bloodline and would be a spectacular addition to anyone’s bookshelf or coffee table. All decisions of the judges will be final and there is no cash alternative, unless the winner would like to give the book to me as a kind gesture or in exchange for a Mai Tai
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