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I would scout specific meetups of interest on Meetup.com before you go next time. You can definitely find several good ones in the same week in SF. Besides th
by tedmiston 8y ago
I would scout specific meetups of interest on Meetup.com before you go next time. You can definitely find several good ones in the same week in SF.
Besides that it helps to be around other similar people, but I wouldn't necessarily spend my day in Philz / Ritual / Sightglass / Four Barrel / a co-working space if the trip was for vacation. I came to SF for a pre-accelerator once that brought a similar crowd.
Staying in the HI hostel helps too.
- archagon 8y agoDo the interesting people really come to meetups? Almost all the tech ones seem like glorified networking or recruitment watering holes. I'd love to hang out with chill tech folks à la Homebrew Computer Club, but I get the feeling that kind of thing doesn't really exist anymore. Everyone is too busy peddling their wares.
- tedmiston 8y agoI've had good luck at niche meetups like for one particular language or framework. And then less good specific but decently good networking at interesting side projects meetups. I think the general purpose tech meetups can be hit/miss. It takes some work to find the best big one in a city. The best one in my city asks that only startup employees attend and not third party recruiters unless they're sponsoring. It also helps if the meetup is hosted at an incubator or accelerator type space — one signal of quality vs a random place.