Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Thanks to Newspepper.com for covering the event.

Alex Tew and I recently hosted the inaugural OpenSoho event and I’m delighted to say it was a great success. We expected 30 to 40 but ended up with around 130 in attendance.

Check out the Facebook group for more information and to see who’s likely to attend. The last one included the likes of:

1. Paul Birch, Co-founder, Bebo (sold to AOL for $850m) and BirthdayAlarm.com
2. Richard Moross, Founder, Moo.com
3. Alex Hoye, Chairman, SeedCamp and CEO, Latitude
4. Angus Banks, Founder, Moreover (sold to VeriSign for $30m)
5. Alex Tew, Creator, Milliondollarhomepage.com and Co-founder, PopJam.com
6. Paul Carr, Writer
7. Mike Butcher, Editor, TechCrunch UK & Ireland
8. Michael Smith, Founder, MindCandy.com
9. Tom Boardman, Co-founder, Firebox.com
10. Nick Bell, Founder, Quick.tv
11. Cate Sevilla, Founding Editor, BitchBuzz
12. Zoe Margolis, Writer
13. Me and about 120 others…

The next gathering

The next meet-up is on December 4th - put it in your diary now as we’re likely to keep the numbers down this time. Please get in touch if you’d like to sponsor one of these events.

Register your interest on the Facebook event page now.

Register your interest on the Upcoming.org Web site now.

I’m sorry if I failed to mention you in this post - maybe next time