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Eye Opening Event: Social MatchBox DC
Last night Keith and I attended Social MatchBox DC which was organized by Robert and Juliana of JobMatchbox.com and sponsored Network Solutions (Shashi)
It was a great event – lots of new faces in the crowd and of course quite a few familiar ones.
Social MatchBox DC was an event aimed at bringing members from around the DC startup and technology community together for what some like to call an open mic night for hiring teams and entrepreneurs. The open format is a fusion of resume clinic, startup job fair and networking event. Attendees included hiring teams representing top startup companies from around the DC area, job seekers, founders with entrepreneurial ideas looking for others to join them, and people interested in getting into the mix.
The list of presenting companies was pretty impressive and honestly eye opening since a good part of the startup community was well represented at the event. Curious who the startups were…I guess you should have been there last night!! Okay, okay I can’t list them all but here are…
The New Arrivals on My Radar
From yesterday’s Potomac TechWire another company that hit my radar was: Publish2.com
A representative from ComScore, Inc was also there last night – not a startup but definitely a success staple from this area. It was also great to hear from Ian at ClearSpring because that is another extremely fast growing (startup) company in the area.
I was personally having a really bad hair day last night and I’ve had a lot on my mind lately but it was nice to be in a room filled with entrepreneurs and tech guys and gals.
It’s events like Social MatchBox DC that will keep our community growing quickly and bring the right people together.
