Brian Dear rocks the house
I just wanted to thank last night's guest, Brian Dear of EVDB, who raised the bar for all 106 guests now and forever! He was frank and informative about his experiences, brought Eventful schwag (black...
View ArticleNew year, new city
Happy New Year, 106ers! For our first session of the New Year, we're going to hold the session in San Francisco on the 11th. We're trying to see if there would be enough interest to justify spawning a...
View ArticlePM seeks engineer
Here's a super cool thing: a 106 member with lots of experience in product management and marketing seeks an entrepreneurial engineer for possible venture formation! Mr. Blueshirt has an MBA and a EE...
View ArticleFebruary meeting
Ooops, I forgot to post this!This month we're hoping to have a good old-fashioned cage match about whether stealth mode and closed alphas are dead. In the blue trunks, taking the "release anything even...
View ArticleLost little lambs
Hans Jacobsen and Barry Holroyd, please send me email with working email addresses. Your emails are bouncing, and unless I hear from you within a month I will delete you from the list. Thanks!
View ArticleMy dark secret
Brendon Wilson, a longtime member and guest speaker last year at the "why do engineers become PMs?" session, has uncovered my secret shame [hangs head].
View Article106 Miles in SF w/ Dave Winer
What: 106 Miles meeting in San FranciscoWhen: 3/8 @ 7pmWho: Dave Winer and all of you wonderful peeps!Need I say more? ;-)Invites to come soon. Hope to see you there...
View ArticleNext two topics
Who says 106 Miles does not plan ahead? We have now lined up our next TWO speakers and topics! On April 12th in Menlo Park, we will be discussing "Old School vs. New School Venture Capitalists". And on...
View ArticleMake that April 13.
The speaker needed us to change the next 106 Miles to Thursday, April 13, instead of Wednesday, April 12 as originally planned. Invitations will go out Real Soon Now (TM).
View ArticleMay Topic: Technology for Developing Nations
Tomorrow... in San Francisco (not Silicon Valley)...On Wednesday, May 10th in San Francisco, entrepreneur Eric Brewer will be leading a discussion of "Technology for Developing Nations."Email 106 Miles...
View ArticleFollowup to May meeting
Many thanks to Eric Brewer for a revelatory 106 session on technology for developing nations. The thing I appreciated the most was a peek at how he applies the same principles of product design to the...
View ArticleJuly 27 in Portland for OSCON
After a hiatus, 106 Miles will resume in July... in Portland, Oregon at OSCON 2006.The session Entrepreneurship For Engineers: From Open Source to New Venture will be moderated by Joyce Park, and held...
View ArticleHiatus is over!
After all those years of back-to-school, autumn is now inextricably associated with new beginnings in my mind. So now that the frost is on the pumpkin, we're very happy to announce a new session of 106...
View ArticlePictures from the November 106 Miles.
Meng Weng Wong took some beautiful pictures at Thursday's meeting. Thanks to everyone who attended, and all of our speakers!The next 106 will be on December 13; the topic will be what big company...
View ArticleBouncing emails
Can the following users please contact me on the 106 Batphone (aka invites@106miles.org) to update your email addresses: Dave Hodson, Mike Rubin, Benjamin Grant, Ches Wadja, Brendon Wilson. Thanks!
View ArticleBe our guest!
This is the first time that we've allowed 106 members to bring a guest to a regular meeting! We figured that due to the topic -- "Everything you wanted to know about jumping from a bigco to a startup...
View ArticleScott on Options
106er Scott Johnston -- who was one of our panelists last month -- just produced an impressive blog post about stock options. Everyone who is thinking about joining a startup from a big company should...
View ArticleNext 106: February 15th in Menlo Park
This month's 106 Miles will be in Menlo Park on Thursday, February 15. The topic is When is the right time for a startup to hire a product manager? We will also talk about product development practices...
View ArticleApril 106 meeting
The April meeting of 106 Miles will be on a special date this month, April 25th, to coincide with friends who are in town for the MySQL conference. Our speaker this month will be George Schlossnagle of...
View ArticleApril meeting CANCELLED
Due to a series of unexpected events, we are going to have to cancel this week's meeting. Very sorry for any inconvenience to the members!
View ArticleMay 106 Miles
106er Naval Ravikant (who has spoken in the past about mergers and acquisitions) recently introduced a new kind of incubator, Hitforge. On May 9th, come hear him explain his Darwinian, engineer-centric...
View ArticleJune 106 Miles
Before we take our traditional summer hiatus, we'll be meeting on June 13th. The topic this time will be a question I'm getting asked a lot lately, namely "How hard is it to become a webdev anyway?"...
View ArticleRands in Repose at 106 Miles
Hi! Remember 106 Miles? Did you miss us? :-)On Wednesday March 19th, Michael Lopp aka Rands in Repose will be our guest. We'll be discussing the ever-fascinating topic of herding kittens.Please try to...
View ArticleRands in Reboot
We had to cancel last month's session, but on April 30th Michael Lopp aka Rands in Repose will be our guest. We'll be discussing the ever-fascinating topic of herding kittens aka engineering...
View Article106 Miles has Moved!
And we've shifted format to a meetup. Links:106 Miles Meetup HomeTwitterFacebookNew Blog at PosterousWe hope to see you soon!
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