3rd Annual Alpha Party
October 27th, 2008 under Joining Alpha. [ Comments: none ]

We are proud to announce the Annual Alpha Party in November 2008.
When:     9pm- 12am on Thursday November 6th, 2008
Where:    Harlot
46 Minna Street, San Francisco, CA (parking nearby)
Who:       Alpha Members and special guests

By Invitation Only


Building Online Communities
September 10th, 2008 under Joining Alpha. [ Comments: none ]

The next Alpha Event is focused on how to build successful online communities.
Location:

http://www.pampaspaloalto.com/

Date:

10/2/2008 starting at 6:30PM

Guest list:

  • Amazon - Andreas Weigend, Former Chief Scientist
  • Billshrink - Peter Pham, CEO
  • CafePress - Fred Durham,CEO
  • DocStoc - Jason Nazar, CEO
  • First Round - Rob Hayes, Partner
  • Fixya - Yaniv Bensaadon, CEO
  • Flowplay - Derrick Morton, CEO
  • Flowplay - Doug Pearson, CTO
  • Fluidity - Ming Yeow Ng, Founder
  • Footnote - Brian Hansen, COO
  • Heidrick - Mercedes Chatfield-Taylor, Partner
  • Instructables - Eric Wilhelm, CEO
  • Jaxtr - Konstantin Guericke, CEO
  • Mayfield - Raj Kapoor, GP
  • MoFo - John Campbell, Partner
  • Overstated.net - Cameron Marlow 
  • Raptr - Dennis Fong, CEO
  • Savvian - Steve Fletcher, MD
  • SoftechVC - Jeff Clavier, Partner
  • StumbleUpon - Garrett Camp         
  • Techcrunch - Michael Arrington, Founder
  • Three Rings - Daniel James, CEO
  • uStreamTV - John Ham, CEO
  • Watercooler-inc - Kevin Chou, CEO
  • WeGame - Jared Kim, CEO
  • World Golf Tour - Yu ChiangCheng, CEO
  • Yahoo! - Jim Stoneham, VP Community Products
  • Dogster - Ted Rheingold,CEO


Monetization
September 10th, 2008 under Joining Alpha. [ Comments: none ]

July’s Alpha event is based on the theme of “Monetization”.

RSVP list is as follows:

  • AdBrite – Philip Kaplan, Founder
  • Billshrink – Peter Pham, CEO
  • CBS Interactive – Michael Marquez, EVP Corporate Development
  • CoolIris – Soujanya Bhumkar, CEO
  • DocStoc – Jason Nazar, CEO
  • Fortune – David Kirkpatrick, Journalist
  • Fox Interactive – Adam Bain, Fox Ads
  • GMG Entertainment – Rob Goldberg, Founder
  • Google – Bradley Horowitz, Head of Social
  • Google – March Leibowitz, VP Syndication
  • Hotornot – James Hong, Founder
  • IMVU – Will Harvey, Founder
  • IPG – Bant Breen
  • IPG – Lori Schwartz
  • IPG – Michael Hayes, EVP
  • Jaxtr – Konstantin Guericke, CEO
  • LaLa – Geoff Ralston, Chief Product Officer
  • Like.com – Munjal Shah, CEO
  • LinkedIn – Reid Hoffman, Founder
  • Meebo – Martin Green, VP Business Development
  • Mobissimo – Beatrice Tarka, CEO
  • MySpace – Jason Oberfest, VP Business Development
  • Pureplay – Jason Kellerman, CEO
  • RockYou – Lance Tokuda, CEO
  • Rubicon Project – Frank Addante, CEO
  • Scribd – Trip, CEO
  • SGN – Sherwin Pishevar, CEO
  • Slide – Mike Huang, VP Products
  • Social Media – Seth Goldstein, CEO
  • SoftechVC – Jeff Clavier, Partner
  • Tagged – Greg Tseng, CEO
  • Techcrunch – Michael Arrington, Founder
  • Twofish – Lee Crawford, CEO
  • VideoEgg – Matt Sanchez, CEO
  • World Golf Tour – YuChiang Cheng, CEO
  • Zynga – Mark Pincus, CEO


Alpha Quarterly Dinner - “User Engagement”
April 18th, 2008 under Joining Alpha. [ Comments: none ]

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


GDC 2008, SF.
February 6th, 2008 under Joining Alpha. [ Comments: 2 ]

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 21st, 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


Alpha Advisory Board Dinner Thursday Nov 29th.
November 14th, 2007 under Joining Alpha. [ Comments: none ]

Annual Advisory Board Dinner Meeting…

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

Where: Village Pub, Woodside, CA

_____________________________

  • 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


Alpha’s Annual Party - Oct 16th in SF!
September 27th, 2007 under Joining Alpha. [ Comments: none ]

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

This invite-only cocktail party will mark our 23rd 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 16th, 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



September Alpha Event is Social Media
September 13th, 2007 under Joining Alpha. [ Comments: none ]

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


Alpha July is Virtual Goods and Virtual Worlds
July 13th, 2007 under Joining Alpha. [ Comments: none ]

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)


Alpha in June: Services & Networks
June 5th, 2007 under Joining Alpha. [ Comments: none ]

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)


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