Startup gang what day & time?

I'm interested -- I'm free Wednesday of that week. Week after I'm free Wednesday & Friday evenings.

I'm going to make a possibly radical suggestion: that we thing about making a 3-hour meeting in the lunch time framework. I think folks can find a way to take an hour off on each side of lunch hour, and it'd make it easier for folks (in town) to make it.

Suggestions?

Shlomi

Wednesday that week (5/13) works great for me. Happy hour is best for me -- honestly, due to workload and an office in eastern time, it's a major ordeal to get away for even a half hour at lunch most days.

The following week, I'd be free on Friday (5/22), same limitation.

My pref. is a 6pm start time.

Others?

Name the date, time, and location, and I'll do my best to kill any schedule conflicts. Thank you for setting this up.

After 5/13, otherwise no Mon, Tue or Wed evenings for me. (After 5/13, I prefer to avoid scheduling this on Tuesdays, 2nd Fridays or 4th Thursdays.)

- John

Unfortunately this May and June are shaping up to be very bad months for me to do anything. I've got a bunch of cross country travel planned (upper midwest to California to Florida) and my wife is training for the Danskin triathalon so I've got extra work around the house to do...

Anyway, it sounds like there is an excess of software people already, so it may be best if I just bow out in favor of others who might need the opportunity worse than I do anyway. Not to say I wouldn't be interested in participating at a later date if there was a place where I could contribute.

While I would like to help, I cannot come up to Austin that day as I will be otherwise occupied. But I have a few suggestions that I hope you'll take under consideration.

* someone should draft an agenda (yes I know that brainstroming meetings are supposed to be unstructured)

* it might be useful to have some idea of the skill sets (not resumes) to be represented so as to have an idea of what you're all capable of doing [Note to Matt: Is there a web place like the scheudling one that you set up where skill sets and possible types of businesses people are interested in could be posted?)

* I haven't read one post or comment yet that speaks to the type of business [See above].

* "Are there any managers in the house?"

Also note my earlier comment on the "other" thread about sacrifices made by entrepreneurs.

There are many sacrifices ahead.

No, I am not well versed in IT and software, even though my Company's technologies both require sophisticated software to enable the systems. That doesn't negate my experiences as a technology entrepreneur and risk taker.

What do you think is the first sacrifice to be made (aside from the uncertainty of next week's paycheck)?

I also think that this could be a great place for Tech Ranch to play a role. These are just a few "random" thoughts.

Note to "Start-up" gang. Above I suggested that a catalog of skill sets be established. Yesterday, Matt Scherer made me aware of TwtJob where you are focused to do your "resume" in 140 characters.

Can you do it? Might be a good shorthand way to have a list of who is in the group. How well can you position yourself in "tweet speak?"

Here's mine:

Tech/Game Biz Dev & Entrepreneur, indie game producer/design, S/W QA, netcafe/event mgmt, web design, volunteering, OSS dev, open networker

Guys & Gals; we can use The Hills in Westlake??? I do not know where most of the hotshots live??? Just a suggestion, and now here comes all the snotty comments....but I guess I asked for it!

Good date and time for me. Not been to either place, but can find either one.

< Mark