On Friday November 20, Scribd is teaming with a bunch of other well known startups in San Francisco to hold a new event called Startup Crawl, where they’ll be taking shuttles to check out the offices (and meet the teams) of a dozen different companies, including Engine Yard, Justin.TV, and Yammer (you can see the full list below).
The event is contracting three or four 56 passenger buses, which will be driving in a circuit between the startups (you can expect a bus every 15-20 minutes, but many of the offices are close enough to walk between them). Each office will be doing something different, with activies including everything from hacking sessions to happy hours. The first shuttle leaves the Embassy Suites SFO/Burlingame at 5:30, and the last bus begins its last run around the circuit at 11 PM. To participate you don’t have to start at the Embassy Suites — you can also show up at any of the participating startups beginning at 5:30.
Love the concept…
Hysterical. Scribd hasn’t done anything note worthy (ie. press worthy) this whole year. Except maybe a few articles about law suits, SEO trickery and lost page views. So why not attach your rope to the ’start-up crawl’ comet. That is great press and will surely get a ton of attention. Helps reinforce the 20something start-up founder mystic. How do these guys do it? Drop out of college, steal content, get suited, then have time to do a crawl of such huge magnitude?
Great logic, just because the PRESS hasn’t said anything means Scribd is stagnating. You don’t need press to be a successful startup idiot.
We need something like that in Midwest!
Seems Columbus has tried one in the past… Poor attendance. Technically, that’s still east coast.
The east coast could use events such as this too.
Can any one tell me is it is 5:30 AM or 5:30 pm.
That would be fun. Startup Weekend is that Friday, already committed to that.
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You didn’t mention that this event was created for attendees of RubyConf IX. The conference is being held in Burlingame, so this is a way to get some city flavor into the conference (or maybe it’s the other way around). I’m not sure if all those companies are down with half the Bay Area geeks dropping in for an open house…
This is so stupid.
There are way too many startup events happening at the end of next week, all of them conflicting with RubyConf.
wow this is the lamest thing I’ve ever heard of
Having an event like that in the midwest, Columbia, MO area to be exact would definitely open up some doors to frequent collaboration, and innovation.
Great idea, wish this event was the following weekend at Startup Weekend kicks off Friday night in Mtn View, but will try to double dip, BTW who is organizing this crawl? http://bayarea....tupweekend.org/
Wish we could be out in SF for this. Love seeing a few clients leading this charge. Sweet!
Awesome, very cool. This is why I love being in the valley. There’s no substitute for talking with the people who are making the change you otherwise read about.