The Open Coffee idea was born in London “to encourage entrepreneurs, developers and investors to organise real-world informal meetups to chat, network and grow.”
Started one year ago, and held on alternative Friday mornings, the Open Coffee Lisburn branch has proven to be a huge success, drawing in techies, bloggers, entrepreneurs and more. Most importantly this random, free and open networking group has, for a lot of us, created real-world friendships.
The openness and social nature of Open Coffee, compared to the strict regimented structure of other business networking groups, such as BNI means that we can try different things. So on Saturday 16 January, we’ll be having our first Open Coffee Lisburn outside of Lisburn, in Banbridge. “On Tour” as I like to call it, we’ll be meeting at 9:30AM in Starbucks at The Outlet. With most attendees being married and with kids, we encourage you to bring the family along too, it’ll be a great social event.
If you’ve never been along to an Open Coffee meeting, this is the perfect opportunity to come along and meet the group.
You can contact us on twitter through http://twitter.com/oclisburn
The majority of us are on Google Wave and if you add me, I can invite you to the group – andrewgribben.com@googlewave.com
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