Entrepreneurs Unfed

Event: Entrepreneurs Unplugged
Date: March 15, 2010
Venue: ATLAS building, CU campus
Food: F+ (nothing left but the chaff: one broken cookie, 3 cubes of cheese and a few dry crackers)
Level of awkwardness: D- (worst job interview ever)

Here's the description of the event from the ATLAS site:

ATLAS Institute, Silicon Flatirons and ITP present Tyler Tysdal, Managing Director of Mantucket Capital as featured entrepreneur. His investment background includes buyouts, restructurings, hedge funds and several entrepreneurial ventures.

Entrepreneurs Unplugged is a meeting place where faculty, students and community members can learn about entrepreneurship. Each meeting features food, drink and an experienced entrepreneur to discuss their startup.

Here's what it really should have said:

Men and women in ties and high heels will be pretending to schmooze while gazing forlornly at a tray with three cubes of cheese, a basket of cookie crumbs, and a bucket of ice that used to house Diet Coke. Stick on name tag strongly encouraged.

I got there 5 minutes before the event was supposed to start and this is the scene I found. Needless to say, I grabbed the last (broken!) cookie and was out of there before the talk started.

HOWEVER -- I think entrepreneurship might just be a good skill for an aspiring journalist to learn, so I plan on returning to this event in the future. For reals!

If you go next time (Monday, April 19): Pack a blazer or some loafers and arrive 15 minutes early. Bring a copy of the Wall Street Journal or a friend to avoid networking awkwardness.

[Image: D'Arcy Norman, shared with a Creative Commons Attribution License]