BoomTown » Sand Hill Road http://kara.allthingsd.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:02:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Kara Visits The Lobby Party on Sand Hill Road (As Opposed to the Sandy Beaches of Hawaii) http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090612/kara-visits-the-lobby-party-on-sand-hill-road-as-opposed-to-the-sandy-beaches-of-hawaii/ http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090612/kara-visits-the-lobby-party-on-sand-hill-road-as-opposed-to-the-sandy-beaches-of-hawaii/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:55:23 +0000 Kara Swisher http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=14454 horizontal-final-fix-orange

Last night, BoomTown went to a lovely party thrown by David Hornik, the August Capital VC who also runs The Lobby conference in his spare time.

He threw the event because those who attend the annual invitation-only gathering in Hawaii wanted to get together again during the year in Silicon Valley for even more schmoozing.

I went to the first Lobby in the fall of 2007 (you can see my video of that below too), so Hornik let me in to have some pizza and beer at August’s offices on Sand Hill Road and use my Flip video to ask those in attendance where they thought the digital sector was in terms of the economy and innovation.

So here’s Hornik, angel investor Brett Bullington (who is also in the 2007 video, but in shorts) and BillShrink’s Peter Pham, as well a merger of MINIs.

Here’s the video (with my 2007 one below it):


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[ See post to watch video ] ]]> http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090612/kara-visits-the-lobby-party-on-sand-hill-road-as-opposed-to-the-sandy-beaches-of-hawaii/feed/ 2 A Tale of Two Parties in Silicon Valley, Part 1: Tony Schmoozing at August Capital http://kara.allthingsd.com/20070907/a-tale-of-two-parties-in-silicon-valley-part-1-tony-schmoozing-at-august-capital/ http://kara.allthingsd.com/20070907/a-tale-of-two-parties-in-silicon-valley-part-1-tony-schmoozing-at-august-capital/#comments Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:41:33 +0000 Kara Swisher http://kara.allthingsd.com/20070907/a-tale-of-two-parties-in-silicon-valley-part-1-tony-schmoozing-at-august-capital/ There’s is nothing lovelier than a sun-dappled summer night, terrific food and drinks and a giant gathering of khaki-wearing venture capitalists.

OK, strike that last one, but the valet parking was nice.

Last night, it was hearty partying in Silicon Valley, with two big events that attracted the digerati in numbers. Tech folks, for all their earnest seriousness about changing the world, like nothing better than schmoozing (and, last night, bellyaching about the iPhone price cut).

That was all to be found at the luxe affair thrown by August Capital at their even more luxe offices in the heart of Sand Hill Road last evening after work. It has long been one of the industry’s favorite events.

This is your quintessential top-line Silicon Valley party–heavy on VCs talking deals, entrepreneurs sucking up to them and also reps from big acquiring companies like eBay and Google and a passel of press drinking mojitos and being alternately snarky and annoying. Not so trendy, as the later iLike bash, but classic tech festivities.

Ah, it’s a grand life here.

But see for yourself:


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