March 30, 2011

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We’re Expanding

We are looking to add five more chapters to our lineup by the end of the year, and we want your help selecting the cities.  Currently we have chapters in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Boulder, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, London and Seattle.  We will be doing our first event in Austin this fall.

So… what fantastic cities are we missing?    Chicago?  Washington DC?  We are looking for one entrepreneur and one angel in each city to take on the role of chapter heads.  These should be folks who share our vision to help entrepreneurs gain access to quality investors based on merit (and without fees).

Let us know your recommendations in the comments, or email us at info@openangelforum.com

  • Kgeier

    TORONTO CANADA, please :D

  • http://www.JustinSanchez.com Justin Sanchez

    Oklahoma City, Oklahoma!

  • http://bradleyjoyce.com bradleyjoyce

    Dallas Dallas Dallas!!

    Jason can ask his buddy Mark Cuban to be the anchor angel. A great option for supporting entrepreneur would be Alex Muse, co-founder of ShopSavvy, as he is really anti-payola and well known within the community.

    I also run launchdfw.com and we would love to support Open Angel Forum Dallas in any way we possibly can.

    Feel free to contact me directly… bradley [at] launchdfw.com

  • Adrian

    Sydney, Australia, and make it open to New Zealanders as well

  • http://yountlabs.com Marshall Yount

    +1 for Dallas

  • http://explorence.com Mike Suprovici

    I think you should strongly consider San Diego. Our tech community has been rapidly expanding over the last 3 years. We have some of the best engineering schools in the country and are a hub for the wireless sector. In addition, the Founder Institute is graduating 30+ quality start-ups a year. There is a lot of great talent in San Diego that is poised to break out…

  • http://www.facebook.com/nikhil.nilakantan Nikhil Nilakantan

    +1 for Dallas. Great startup community here.

  • http://www.facebook.com/justinbigelow Justin Bigelow

    Dallas man, come to Dallas pronto (please)!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1288330627 Brad Anderson

    definitely need you in Dallas. Great devs and designers and overall entrepreneurs

  • http://twitter.com/sepdfw Saket Porwal

    +1 Dallas, great potential

  • http://www.facebook.com/benmorrow Ben Morrow

    Would love to see OAF come to Dallas. We’ve got a growing tech community that was showcased last week at TechWildcatters, one of our coworking spaces, with the Startup Career Fair (http://launchdfw.com/news/reminder-free-startup-career-fair-today/) and guest Panel on Failure (http://techwildcatters.com/2011/03/silicon-valley-invades-dallas/).

  • Gabriella

    One more vote for Dallas! I run a seed accelerator here and there are some amazing companies and lots of angel investors (not to mention big name customers and acquirers).

    We’re excited to support the effort!

  • http://twitter.com/chrissundberg Chris Sundberg

    I also recommend Dallas. There’s a vibrant startup scene here already that could really benefit from an organization like OAF.

  • http://twitter.com/mobilesymmetry Jim Patterson

    St. Louis or Kansas City. I just came out of Invest Midwest and over 1200 folks there. Medical and animal health research corridor, Koch industries, Sprint, Cerner, Garmin, TradeBot/ BATS and now Google in Kansas City. St. Louis has lots of data centric companies born out of Wash U, Savvis, Cequel3, Charter, and best of all Budweiser.

    In KC, I would get Dave Cummings and Jon Darbyshire to lead; for St. Louis, there’s a lot to choose from on both sides.

  • Eric Vanderschaaf

    Dallas! This place is heating up! DALLAS!

  • http://twitter.com/ObviousApps Obvious Apps

    Another Dallas vote here. So many great things happening, and I know the community would respond really well to having an OAF in Big D (as is apparent by the comments). Our team at Obvious Apps would support it in any way possible!

  • http://twitter.com/JeffDaugherty Jeff Daugherty

    The only two cities in Texas are Dallas first and Austin second.

  • http://twitter.com/JeffDaugherty Jeff Daugherty

    Dallas first, Austin second.

  • http://www.unabellavita.com Billy Joe Mills

    Chicago has a big tech community that is bustling and hungry for investors. We have big startups like Groupon and a great incubator in Excelerate Labs. I know about 50 people starting companies here. I’m willing to be the founding entrepreneur here in Chicago. 

  • http://www.daniel-james-scott.com Daniel James Scott

    Tampa Bay, FL. Why?

    A strong and vibrant support infrastructure, including
    the Tampa Bay Technology Forum, Florida Venture Forum, Creative Tampa Bay, and
    a handful of nationally recognized incubators.

    An innovative, growing entrepreneurship undergrad program
    at USF St. Petersburg, top 5 entrepreneurship grad program at USF Tampa, and 27th
    top ranked research institution in the nation.

    Brand new Gazelle Lab program launching in August (a
    charter member of the TechStars Network) and home to the state’s second
    Entrepreneur Commons Chapter (the other is in Miami).

    Great entrepreneurial success stories to date, including
    Wikipedia, Wufoo (just purchased by Survey Monkey), Tour Wrist (popular
    iPhone/iPad application), TV Goods (started by Kevin Harrington of ABC’s Shark
    Tank), TechData, Raymond James Financial, Jabil Circuit, and tons more.

    Most of all, we have a fantastic community of investors
    here, and Open Angel Forum would be an excellent resource to match these folks
    with outstanding local opportunities.

    Please feel free to contact me directly for more information.

  • Naeem

    I really think Toronto needs one of these. Toronto has been recently named the 2nd based city for entrepreneurship after NYC, I find it hard to believe that we don’t have open angels here!

  • http://twitter.com/ryandodds Ryan Dodds

    Orlando, Florida
    It would serve as a central meeting location for the state’s forum. Orlando is poised to be a leading city for post recession recovery and is a great place to launch a company.

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