The Glasshouse San Francisco April 2008 |Event report

The Glasshouse San Francisco April 2008 – Event report

As this is our first Glasshouse event in San Francisco for some time, we expected to have a very busy event. And it was a tremendous success. As part of the celebrations and to support the first UK Web Mission, The Glasshouse with association with HSBC, hosted a fireside chat with two outstanding entrepreneurs Michael Birch, founder of Bebo and Jim Buckmaster, CEO of craigslist.

Credit: Caroline McCarthy/CNET News.com

“SAN FRANCISCO--It's kind of cheating to showcase the dotcom scene by hosting an event featuring Bebo co-founder Michael Birch and Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster. An outsider, observing Buckmaster's interview of Birch on Monday night as part of the Glasshouse salon series on entrepreneurialism, would get the idea that Web 2.0's scions must all be tall, stylish, and exceptionally good-looking. ” Read further…

Paul Carr on WebMission

“There are a ton of Brit tech entrepreneurs in San Francisco, talking to each other and to American counterparts.”
And some more by Paul Carr here

Companies on the previous guest lists have included: Allen & Company, BBC News, Bessemer Venture Partners, Big Momma Productions, BusinessWeek, CBS MarketWatch, CollegeHumor, craigslist, Daily Candy, Elevation Partners, Fast Company, Flavorpill, Fresh Direct, Fortune, Greycroft Partners, Goldman Sachs, Google, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., thehappycorp, The Huffington Post, IAC, ICM, Inc., Kayak, Meetup, MTV, NBC Universal, The New Yorker, New York Post, The New York Times, The Onion, Portfolio, The Sunday Times (of London), TreeHugger, Union Square Ventures, and the UK Government.

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19-25 April 2008, San Francisco

Web Mission 2008 will see 20 UK Web 2.0 companies travel to San Francisco to explore new opportunities for growth with key people in Silicon Valley. This event will showcase innovative UK web talent, seek meaningful assistance for companies ready for expansion, and provide a platform for those involved to gain valuable media and business exposure.

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