Last call: Don’t forget to register for BlogCampSwitzerland 3.0 on Friday, August 29 2008 at Technopark Zurich. Already more than 130 Bloggers have signed up!

PS: We’re looking for more speakers. If you have something to talk about, sign up here!

Don’t forget to register for BlogCampSwitzerland 3.0 on August 29 2008 at Technopark Zurich. Already 100 Bloggers have signed up!

PS: Help us spread the word!

Yesterday I’ve been to Techcrunch Meetup Zurich (see also my Trigami-post). It was an awesome evening on the 15th floor of the Bluewin-Tower and I met a lot of friends.

Congratz to the organizers Wuala, Doodle et al.

My list of interesting Swiss Startups:
Mydeskfriend
Cassiber
Optionrating.com
Poken
Webnode
–> all Startups from the Event

Please note that the event will take place on a Friday (not Saturday) because we’ll do it during the “Computer Science Day” (Tag der Informatik).

Please save the date and register on www.blogcamp.ch.

PS: Help us spread the word!

PPS: Here is the official trailer :-)

[flash]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H7mKOCJ2wU[/flash]

Where:
AYA, Drinx & Talx
Hardstrasse 260 (Steinfelsplatz)
8005 Zürich
www.aya-bar.ch

Who:
Entrepreneurs & Investors (everybody is invited)

More information:
XING Event page

Where:
AYA, Drinx & Talx
Hardstrasse 260 (Steinfelsplatz)
8005 Zürich
www.aya-bar.ch

Who:
Entrepreneurs & Investors (everybody is invited)

More information:
XING Event page

Next Venture Cocktail will take place on Thursday, 28th June from 7pm at Pier West.

Important Links:
# Venture Cocktail website
# Event-details on XING

See you there!

After another successful Venture Cocktail, we’ve decided to keep up the momentum and hold the next event next week Thursday, the 14th of June. Plenty of investors and entrepreneurs have expressed their interest in coming, so I hope you can come too.

As for the venue, we will meet next week at the same place (Aya Bar – Heinrichstrasse 269 on Steinfelsplatz near Escherwyss tram stop, Hardbrucke train stop) and at the same time (7PM on).

Feel free to contact Elizabeth at 078 784 78 57 with questions and please pass the information on to anyone you think might be interested in joining us.

Please bring plenty of business cards, and I look forward to seeing you there!

Venture Cocktail

The idea for Venture Cocktail was born, like many great ideas, out of an informal chat. We observed, as many of you probably have, as we sat in the lobby of the hotel hosting Red Herring’s Venture Market Europe – a conference celebrating top tech startups and financiers – that some of the most exciting business gets done over chats like these – over coffee or drinks. That day in Cannes, my friends Prodosh and Remo suggested that I, with a background in media and public relations, should launch an event which brings together international entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators on a regular basis, to exchange ideas – to create an informal environment where people with common interests could gather for inspiring conversation. Though this is not a new idea, the setting is.

And what better place than Zurich, where the appetite for innovation is clear. While global companies such as Google, IBM, eBay and others settle in to create a critical mass for technology, the Banhofstrasse provides the financial resources for innovation. My role is simply to offer the glue to put the pieces together.

My plan is to meet at least every last Thursday of the month at a designated place in Zurich. Red Herring Magazine’s Farley Duvall will be there as our first supporter, as will blogger Remo Uherek (http://www.remo.fm – Remo about Entrepreneurship), Prodosh Banerjee, local technology entrepreneur and photographer Oliver Pages. No fees, no sponsors, and people will buy their own drinks. This will be an organic event which will grow as we do!

So, whether you’re an Investor, an Entrepreneur, an Innovator or simply Interested, join us for cocktails.

(Farley and Elizabeth)

Here is the invitation to the next Venture Cocktail:

Dear Friends,

The first Venture Cocktail was a huge success! The energy was extremely positive and all signs say the interest is there. VCs, Investors and Entrepreneurs alike seemed to enjoy the evening immensely. Thanks again to all who made it great. As promised, the next event will be the last Thursday of this month. So, the 31^st it is! Same place, same time.

May 31st, 7PM – 9 or so.

AYA, Drinx & Talx
Heinrichstrasse 269 (Steinfelsplatz)
8004 Zürich

Tram: Escherwyss

Train: Hardbrücke

Elizabeth’s phone: +41 78 784 59 35

Email: eperry@perry-productions.com

We will try again to be outside. If the weather doesn’t permit, however, we’ll go upstairs. Hope all of you can make it.

This time, please bring your business cards, as we will use them to play a game!

In other news: we are building a web site for this event. Coming soon: www.venturecocktail.com.  The site will talk of our events and the people that make them happen. Like the event itself, it will grow as we do. We will have a links page where we will list attendees’/members’ web sites. Very excited about this!

About Venture Cocktail

The idea for Venture Cocktail was born, like many great ideas, out of an informal chat. We observed, as many of you probably have, as we sat in the lobby of the hotel hosting Red Herring’s Venture Market Europe – a conference celebrating top tech startups and financiers – that some of the most exciting business gets done over chats like these – over coffee or drinks. That day in Cannes, my friends Prodosh and Remo suggested that I, with a background in media and public relations, should launch an event which brings together international entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators on a regular basis, to exchange ideas – to create an informal environment where people with common interests could gather for inspiring conversation. Though this is not a new idea, the setting is.

And what better place than Zurich, where the appetite for innovation is clear. While global companies such as Google, IBM, eBay and others settle in to create a critical mass for technology, the Banhofstrasse provides the financial resources for innovation. My role is simply to offer the glue to put the pieces together.

My plan is to meet at least every last Thursday of the month at a designated place in Zurich. Red Herring Magazine’s Farley Duvall will be there as our first supporter, as will blogger Remo Uherek (http://www.remo.fm – Remo about Entrepreneurship), Prodosh Banerjee, local technology entrepreneur, and photographer Olivier Pages. No fees, no sponsors, and people will buy their own drinks. This will be an organic event which will grow as we do!

So, whether you’re an Investor, an Entrepreneur, an Innovator or simply Interested, join us for cocktails and conversation.

For more information on our next event, please call Elizabeth on

+41 78 784 59 35

Unfortulately, this time I won’t make it again (I’ll be in Copenhagen at reboot9.0). But I’m sure there will be photos :-).

The idea for Venture Cocktail was born, like many great ideas, out of an informal chat. We observed, as many of you probably have, as we sat in the lobby of the hotel hosting Red Herring’s Venture Market Europe – a conference celebrating top tech startups and financiers – that some of the most exciting business gets done over chats like these – over coffee or drinks. That day in Cannes, my friends Prodosh and Remo suggested that I, with a background in media and public relations, should launch an event which brings together international entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators on a regular basis, to exchange ideas – to create an informal environment where people with common interests could gather for inspiring conversation. Though this is not a new idea, the setting is.

And what better place than Zurich, where the appetite for innovation is clear. While global companies such as Google, IBM, eBay and others settle in to create a critical mass for technology, the Bahnhofstrasse provides the financial resources for innovation. My role is simply to offer the glue to put the pieces together.

My plan is to meet at least every last Thursday of the month at a designated place in Zurich. Red Herring Magazine’s Farley Duvall will be there as our first supporter, as will blogger Remo Uherek (http://www.remo.fm – Remo about Entrepreneurship), and Prodosh Banerjee, local technology entrepreneur. No fees, no sponsors, and people will buy their own drinks. This will be an organic event which will grow as we do!

So, whether you’re an Investor, an Entrepreneur, an Innovator or simply Interested, join us for cocktails and conversation this Thursday, May 3^rd at:

AYA, Drinx & Talx
Heinrichstrasse 269 (Steinfelsplatz)
8004 Zürich

Tram Stop: Escherwyss

And please feel free to call me on my cell with any questions or directions:

Elizabeth Perry
+41 78 784 59 35

I am very excited about this event. There is definitively a lot of potential for such things, especially in Zurich.

Unfortunately I will not make it to this first event. Due to a time conflict I’ll be in Hamburg at the Next07. But next time, I’ll definitively come! Don’t forget to make pictures and movies of the first event and don’t forget to blog about it!

Update:
The event takes place from 7-9 pm