Phoenix OpenCoffee Club

If you're an entrepreneur or investor in Phoenix looking to meet with like-minded people over great coffee, then come out to Phoenix OpenCoffee. OpenCoffee is a weekly meetup intended to bring together talented entrepreneurs and local investors in the informal setting of a coffee shop.

The OpenCoffee Club was started to encourage entrepreneurs, developers and investors to organize real-world informal meetups to chat, network and grow.  It originated in London by Saul Klein, a venture partner at Index Ventures. Since then it has expaned to over 80 OpenCoffee Clubs worldwide with the PHX version starting this past April.

Since the startup Community is beginning to sprout here in the Phoenix area, Curtis Miller at Flatterline thought bringing OpenCoffee to Phoenix would be a great idea. Curtis was inspired by a recent trip to Boulder, CO, where he attended an OpenCoffee Club get together. Seeing the Boulder startup community embrace such a vibrant event to discuss ideas, share problems, give advice and listen to each other made him motivated to bring this type of event to Phoenix.

Phoenix OpenCoffee meets every Thursday from 8AM to 10AM.  It bounces around to different coffee shops each week, so not only do you get to experience good conversation, you also get the opportuity to sample one of the Phoenix area's many locally-owned coffee shops.

For more information on Phoenix OpenCoffee, or for information on how to start an OpenCoffee in your neck of the woods, below are some helpful links.

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/15697/
http://flatterline.com/index.php/2009/04/24/phoenix-opencoffee-club/
http://www.opencoffeeclub.org/

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