Yesterday it was time for another OpenCoffee London and of course I went again. It was the first time I actually recognized some people from a previous meeting and I took some more time to actually talk with some interesting people this time.

I started out talking with a nice guy who was planning to start a kind of wired magazine for green startups. It really sounded interesting but there was no businesscard and therefore no plug on this blog. From green technology to gardening is a small step and therefore I was suprised to meet the guys behind GrowsOnYou.com a social gardening website. I loved their enthousiasm, green moo-cards, and plans to expand to video. Their site is sadly enough only in English but my mother loved the page anyway which means alot to me because she normally only reads Dutch or Italian sites.

From green moo-cards to meeting the founder of Moo.com is a story best told on David’s site. Richard Moross (founder of Moo) is a very funny guy and we tried to understand how they came up with Moo and what they were planning. The most stunning fact was that their “best value investments was £10,000 spent with an agency to get the design of the process into four slick steps” which sets them apart from guys like Vistaprint. I exchanged a lot of Moo cards lately and I’m still amazed how positively people react to them.

The rest of the meeting went a bit slow, talking about technology with guys like Sam Sethi, Simon Grice (etribes) and Amanda Lorenzani. Amanda and David both invited me to the Geek Dinner later on that day and so I spent my whole day in suit. I was clearly overdressed for the Geek Dinner but it was nice meeting guys like Ian Forrester and Tom Morris again. The talk by Mike Culver from Amazon reminded me a lot of the talk at the Girl Geek Dinner I went to a while back so I didn’t pay much attention. Next time I hope to be able to show my own mashup, because announcing that you have a product is just so much cooler than “I am a student”.

This entry was posted on Friday, May 4th, 2007 at 21:39 and is filed under London, OpenCoffee, event.