The dinner will be hosted at the Village Pub in Woodside, April 24th starting at 6:30PM in the private dining room.

Guest list:

• BillShrink - Peter Pham, CEO
• Blubet - Song Kim, CEO
• Bunchball - Rajat Paharia, CEO
• CBS Interactive - Michael Marquez, EVP Strategy & Corp Dev
• First Round - Rob Hayes, Partner
• GetSatisfaction - Thor Muller, Founder
• Heidrick - Mercedes Chatfield-Taylor, Managing Partner
• Heidrick - Nhi Nguyen
• Hi5 - Akash Garg, Founder and CTO
• Instructables.com - Eric Wilhelm, CEO
• Jaxtr - Konstantin Guernicke, CEO
• Liberty Media - Mike Zeisser, SVP
• Like.com - Munjal Shah, CEO
• LinkedIn - Reid Hoffman, Founder
• Meebo - Seth Sternberg, CEO
• Morrison & Foerster - John Campbell, Partner
• MySpace - Amit Kapur, COO
• Photobucket - Alex Welch, CEO
• PurePlay - Jason Kellerman, CEO
• RockYou - Jia Shen, CTO & Founder
• Savvian - Steve Fletcher, MD
• Shopflick - Dan Strauss, Founder & CPO
• Shopping.com - Andre Haddad, CEO
• Slide - Max Levchin, CEO
• SocialMedia - Seth Goldstein, CEO
• SoftTechVC - Jeff Clavier, Partner
• Tagged - Greg Tseng, CEO
• TechCrunch - Mike Arrington, Founder
• Three Rings - Daniel James, CEO
• Wallop – Karl Jacob, CEO
• Wikia - Gil Penchina, CEO
• World Golf - YuChiang Cheng, CEO
• Yahoo - Jasper Malcomson, VP Consumer Products

On behalf of Byron Deeter, Eric Chin and myself, I’d like to invite you to join us for cocktails and dinner on Thursday, February 21^st, the week of the Gaming Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Many of you have previously attended either Byron’s ‘Gurus of Gaming’ dinner or an Alpha event hosted by Eric and me. This year, we are co-hosting a party that brings together what we believe are some of the best and brightest minds in the industry for an evening of great conversation over cocktails and dinner. In attendance will be founders and CEOs of cutting-edge startups, senior executives from both leading game publishers and media companies, as well as some leading VCs and pundits.

Details are below:

When: Thu, February 21

Cocktails at 6:30pm

Dinner at 8pm

Where: Lulu’s (click here for directions)

816 Folsom St
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 495-5775

info: dianne@baypartners.com

Annual Advisory Board Dinner Meeting…

When: Thursday, November 29^th, 6:30pm-10pm

Where: Village Pub, Woodside, CA

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• LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, Founder
• TechCrunch, Mike Arrington, Founder & Co-editor
  
• SoftTechVC, Jeff Clavier, Founder & Partner
  
• PhotoBucket, Peter Pham, Vice President of Business Development
  
• Yahoo!, Brad Horowitz, Vice President of Advanced Development
  
• Wikia, Gil Penchina, CEO
  

We are happy to announce Alpha’s 2^nd annual cocktail party on October 16^th in San Francisco.

This invite-only cocktail party will mark our 23^rd event over the past two years.

We’re expecting about 200 startup CEOs, senior executives from industry leaders like Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, CBS, Microsoft and IAC, some well known bloggers and pundits, and a host of leading VCs focused on the consumer internet sector.

Date & Time: October 16^th, 7pm – 11pm

Place: Fluid Ultra Lounge, 662 Mission Street, San Francisco

Details: Cocktails and nourishment courtesy of our gracious sponsors

Cheers,

Eric Chin, Founder | eric@baypartners.com

Mike Jung, Founder | mike@panoramacapital.com

The dinner will be hosted at the Village Pub in Woodside, September 26th starting at 6:30PM. Guest list:

• Karl Jacob - Founder and CEO, Wallop
• Geoff Ralston - fmr CPO, Yahoo (and Angel investor)
• Kevin Doerr - GM Windows Live, Microsoft
• Matt Cohler - VP strategy, Facebook
• Mike Speiser - VP Community, Yahoo
• Peter Pham - VP Bus Dev, Photobucket
  
• Brian Monhan - VP, Interpublic Group
  
• Aydin Senkut - fmr Google, angel investor
• Seth Sternberg - CEO,Meebo
• Jeff Clavier - Partner, SoftechVC
  
• Mike Jung, Panorama (Host)
• Eric chin, Bay Partners (Host)

STAY TUNED FOR NEWS ON ALPHA’S ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP PARTY THIS OCTOBER

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July’s alpha is focused on virtual goods and virtual worlds. The dinner will be hosted at the Village Pub in Woodside, July 25 starting at 6:30PM. Guest list:

• Lee Crawford – CEO, TwoFish
• Henry Chong – US CEO, Cyworld
• Tim Stevens – CEO, Doppleganger
• Dan Kelly – CEO, Sparter
• Daniel James – CEO, 3 Rings
• Steve Goldstein– President Americas, Flagship/Ping 0
• Robert Hutter – CEO, NR2B Research
• Corey Bridges – Multiverse co-founder
• John Cahill - CEO, ReeRaa
• Steve Hoffman - CEO, Rocketon
• Sean Ryan - CEO, Meez (Host)
• Eric Chin, Bay Partners (Host)
  
• Michael Jung, Panorama Capital (Host)
  

June’s alpha is focused on distributed services. The dinner will be hosted at the Village Pub in Woodside, June 28 starting at 6:30PM. Guest list:

• LiveOps, Bill Trenchard, Chairman
• Kingfish, Christian Dubiel CEO
• Axiom Legal, Mark Harris, CEO
  
• oDesh, Gary Swart, CEO
• HP/LogoWorks, Jeff Kearl, CMO
• LinkedIn, Redi Hoffman, Founder
• Ziizoo, Robert Einspruch, CEO
• Paul Ryan, Done Right!, CEO
  
• Rob Hayes, First Round Capital, General Partner
• August Capital, David Hornik, General Partner (Host)
  
• Eric Chin, Bay Partners (Host)
  
• Michael Jung, Panorama Capital (Host)
  

May’s alpha will focus on e-commerce. Alpha dinners are small and intimate by design. Guests bring their passion, their excitement, and their willingness to share and learn. The dinner will be hosted at the Village Pub in Woodside, May 30 starting at 6:30PM.  Guest list:

• Jennifer Dulski - Group VP, Local Markets & Commerce Division, Yahoo!
• Paul Martino - CEO, Aggregate Knowledge
• Ben Ling - Director of Commerce Initiatives, Google
• Munjal Shah - CEO, Like.com
• Tom Fallows - Founder & CMO, Mercantila
• Matt Bigge - CEO, ZenCon
• Bill Pryor - COO, Shoebuy.com
• Fred Durham - CEO, CafePress
• Alessandro Isolani - CEO, eBates
• Rob Hays - Partner, First Round Capital
• Mike Jung - Panorama (Host)
• Eric chin - Bay Partners (Host)

April’s alpha will focus on the Mobile Internet. Alpha dinners are small and intimate by design. Guests bring their passion, their excitement, and their willingness to share and learn. The dinner will be hosted at the Village Pub in Woodside, starting at 6:30PM. Guest list:

• Oman Hamoui, CEO, Admob
• Zaw Thet, CEO, 4info
• Philip Kaplan, Founder, Adbrite
• Om Malik, CEO, GigaOM
• Peter Pham, VP BD, Photobucket
• James Slavet, Greylock, Partner
• Anthony McCusker, Gunderson Dettmer (Host)
• Eric Chin, Bay Partners (Host)
  
• Michael Jung, Panorama Capital (Host)
  

This month’s dinner takes place on the first day of the WebVentures 2007 conference on Tuesday March 20th at the Village Pub in Woodside, starting at 6:30PM. This month’s theme is “Everything Local” Guest list:

• Kara Nortman - SVP M&A, IAC
• Peter Horan - CEO Media & Advertising, IAC
• Manoj Verma - VP Corp Dev, Ask
• Adam Cahan - EVP, BD & Strategy, MTVN
• Fraiser Miller - Local, Yahoo!
• Jordan Glazier - CEO, Eventful
• Mike Arrington - CEO, Techcrunch
• Tim Karman - MD, RBC Capital
  
• Rob Hayes - Partner, First Round Capital
  
• Angela Strange - Bay Partners
• Eric Chin - Bay Partners (Host)
  
• Mike Jung - Panorama Capital (Host)
  

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