PaddysValley Tour Silicon Valley

Chris, Gary, Krishnan and I just hosted 25 Irish entrepreneurs in the Web 2.0 space who humbly refer to themselves as 'PaddysValley'. They are visiting/touring the Valley this week to network, understand how to best raise capital, how to build/scale their Web 2.0 businesses, how to partner (and to shop given the €/$ exchange rate!) Their trip this week to the Valley includes visits with Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Seesmic, SocialText, Ning... and Milestone Group! It was really exciting to hear how switched on and plugged in this group was. I applaud them all getting organized to coming across and making the investment, it'll pay dividends for all of them in the months and years to come. I got a Guinness out of the deal, t-shirt that is. Next time I'm in Europe, I'm definitely making a trip to Ireland to meet up with this group again, and collect on a 'real' Guinness, the one with the fancy shamrock foamy bit on top! Good luck PaddysValley, you're all on the right track!

Author: Mark Zawacki