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OpenCoffee Club Comes to Manila

The OpenCoffee Club is a new initiative to bring together entrepreneurs, developers and investors around the world. In a testament to the viral power of online networking, they’ve already got chapters in 51 cities within a span of just two months. Syndeo Media’s Hans Koch just started a Manila chapter.

First meetup’s Thursday at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Greenbelt 3, Makati. I can’t make it that day, but do check it out if you can. The Philippines is getting left behind, and we need to put good ideas in front of investors.

Google Acquisition Tip: Go Crazy

Wanna sell something to Google for a billion dollars? Here’s a tip: go crazy.

“We look at everything very carefully,” Salman Ullah, Google’s director of corporate development, said yesterday in a speech at a meeting of the Los Angeles Venture Association. “The really crazy ones do really well.”

“The crazy ones mean they ignore the usual restraints of investment levels required or design parameters or ‘Gee I need more servers than anyone ever thought was possible’,” Ullah said. “When you free yourselves from these constraints, you create crazy, cool things.”

(Via John Batelle.)