PaddysValley Tour Silicon Valley

Chris, Gary, Krishnan and I just hosted 25 Irish entrepreneurs in the Web 2.0 space who humbly refer to themselves as 'PaddysValley'.  They are visiting/touring the Valley this week to network, understand how to best raise capital, how to build/scale their Web 2.0 businesses, how to partner (and to shop given the €/$ exchange rate!)  Their trip this week to the Valley includes visits with Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Seesmic, SocialText, Ning... and Milestone Group!  It was really exciting to hear how switched on and plugged in this group was.  I applaud them all getting organized to coming across and making the investment, it'll pay dividends for all of them in the months and years to come.  I got a Guinness out of the deal, t-shirt that is.  Next time I'm in Europe, I'm definitely making a trip to Ireland to meet up with this group again, and collect on a 'real' Guinness, the one with the fancy shamrock foamy bit on top!  Good luck PaddysValley, you're all on the right track!

Comments

[brendan Lally]

On behalf of the Paddys Valley 'crew' we THANK YOU and your team for your insight, candor and 'gold dust' advice.

Your 'homework' (checking out who we are, what we're trying 2 do, who we're seeing), engaging Q&A, complete flexibility and the get with it attitude is just so refreshing to all of us.

It was very well received and appreciated.

You will certainly have many takers 4 hosting you in Ireland and showing you a good time and just a couple of Guinness's!

Brendan

[elly parker]

Real pints of Guinness don't come with shamrocks on top, that's sacrilege! :-) Come to Ireland and we'll get you a proper pint of 'da black stuff'.

[Marcus Mac Innes]

Mark, many thanks for taking the time to meet with us! We really appreciated your perspective. Looking forward to returning the hospitality next time you are in Ireland.

[Alan O'Rourke]

Absolutely you are very welcome over any time. Really appreciated you sharing your experience. Thank you.

[Niall Larkin]

It was a great talk Mark. Not least for your totally unprompted remarks on what a huge market there is for solutions that really crack online privacy. Make sure to give us a call when in Ireland. We are located right next door to the St. James Gate brewery. So when you come over we'd love to host you and take you for a drink of our very own Kool-Aid. Right from the source.