I have been to two great events this past week that I highly recommend to entrepreneurs in San Diego. I usually try to keep a balance by working, exercising, and relaxing so I typically don’t make it to a lot of groups, but these two were worth the time.
The first is the Social Media Breakfast held monthly. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I was pleasantly surprised. The group meets monthly at Milano’s coffee in Mission Valley. The structure consisted of a meet and greet, opening discussions about social media news, then a local business spoke about their use of social media, and then to close out the group opened up so people could share challenges they had with social media.
The speaker today was the founders of Carbonita Detailing. The two guys who founded this green car detailing company launched two months ago gave a great speech about their use of Twitter. They have gone from door knocking landing 3 jobs to using Twitter to land 100 jobs so far in the month of January. Great work by two guys who had never used Twitter before. They also have a great story and are passionate about what they are doing.
A couple cool things I liked about Carbonita is they only use one pint of water per detailing and they drive around in a smart car. So they are doing a great job and being ec0-friendly. Carbonita is already planning on franchising the company and I expect great things from the founders.
The second group/meet-up I attended this week was Web Leaders Collective. This is a group that has been going for about a year now and is comprised of founders and executives in technology or that run start-ups in San Diego. The group was founded by Chuck Longanecker from Digital Telepathy and is now being led by Lisa Tran.
The first meeting of the year was a poker game with about 16 local entrepreneurs and executives and hosted by Steven Cox at the Takelessons office. It was a a lot of fun and nice to relax with some entrepreneurs, but don’t be fooled the side conversations were top notch with some very smart people. There were discussions of start-ups doing well, new start-up concepts, investment intros, technology debates, life science topics, and overall a balance of fun and intellect.
If you are running a start-up and looking for a great environment to brain storm with peers I highly recommend attending.
Jimmy Hendricks
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