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Office Hours NYC

With day after day of negative news pouring out of New York City, First Round Capital thinks its time to get together and start some positive entrepreneurial thinking.   On March 13, 2009 from 2:00PM-4:00PM, Josh Kopelman, Chris Fralic, Howard Morgan and Phin Barnes will be hosting office hours in Manhattan at Live Bait Restaurant and Bar. 

As with all of our office hours meet-ups, this is your chance to meet with the First Round Capital team and chat about anything from starting a new business to joining an existing start-up, in an informal environment.  We’ll provide the napkins to write on and some drinks while you wait.  

Please help us load balance meeting times by signing-up at this link to let us know if you plan to attend in the first hour or second hour of the event. It’s first come, first serve, but we’ll be sure to message you with an update.

You can find the Facebook Event page here.

Date: Friday, March 13th

Time: 2:00PM-4:00PM

Location: Live Bait Restaurant and Bar, 14 E. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010

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Office Hours SXSW

Now that the First Round Capital team has hosted Office Hours in two countries, we thought we might be ready for Texas. In October, we met with more than 50 entrepreneurs in Palo Alto. In January, we heard great ideas from more than 40 entrepreneurs in Vancouver. They say everything is bigger in Texas. Now it’s time to prove it.

On Monday March 16th, Rob Hayes, Christine Herron and I will be hosting Office Hours SXSW . Just like the original Palo Alto edition, we’d love to meet with entrepreneurs, people thinking about becoming entrepreneurs or folks who would like join a start-up. We’ll be available for a bunch of informal ~10 minute chats. No agenda. We’ll provide the napkins to write on and maybe some margaritas while you wait. Maybe. Details below.

Date: Monday, March 16th

Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm

Location: Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant, 301 San Jacinto Blvd, Austin, TX

Please help us load balance meeting times by signing-up at this link to let us know if you plan to attend in the first hour or second hour of the event. It’s first come, first serve, but we’ll be sure to message you with an update. You can find the Facebook Event page here.

And, yes, I’ll be sure to have my ropers on.

Announcing: First Round Capital Office Hours (and free coffee)

Remember when you were in college and you had lots of questions about how the world worked and yet being around a university environment you still felt safely isolated from the crazed gyrations and threats of the real world? If you wanted to think of the world off-campus, you could sign-up to meet a faculty member for Office Hours and discuss the world in theory (realty was still Graduation Day and Senior Week away).

Well, all of the recent doomsdayism and naysaying has made me a bit wistful for campus life. I remember the safety of those college days. And I miss them. So do my colleagues. In that spirit, Rob Hayes and I will be holding our own Office Hours. On Tuesday, October 21st from 11am to 1pm, we’ll be camping out at the University Café in Palo Alto.

Despite what others may be saying, at First Round we still think it’s a great time to think about starting a company. At Office Hours, we’d love to meet with entrepreneurs, people thinking about becoming entrepreneurs or folks who would like join a start-up. We’ll be available for a bunch of informal ~15 minute chats. There’s no agenda. Ask us what we think of the market environment or share an idea for a company – we’ll be sure to have plenty of napkins available to help draft that first product plan. We’ll listen, share our perspective and pay for the coffee (which may be of more value than our advice).

When: Tuesday, October 21st , 11am – 1pm
Where: University Café, 271 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301

More details and RSVP (not required) here.

We’ll plan to meet people as they arrive, but if you have time constraints send me a note and we can lock down a slot.