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The first TECH cocktail was a wonderful evening filled with the conversations, wine and fun. Over 225 of the Midwest's finest attended to unite the tech and business community.
Thank you to midPhase for sponsoring the first TECH cocktail event. Thank you to Stormhoek the featured wine of the event and Hugh MacLeod of signing his classic cartoon prints. Thank you to State Restaurant and Café for letting us use their technologically advanced venue. Demonstrations were performed by Zaptix, TableTop Interactive and FeedBurner - thank you for your support and participation. Thank you to:
- RipIt Digital for donating gift certificates for the raffle
- Apple for donating iPod nanos for the raffle
- skinnyCorp for the sweet ExtraTasty schwag
- Apartments.com for the koozies!
- Chicagoist for the schwag
Special thanks to all who came out to make the evening such a wonderful night. Thanks to Eric Olson of FeedBurner and VentureWeek and my family for their support and assistance. Thanks to Jonathan Wolter, Rick Klau, John Zerasky and David Dalka for helping to get the word out via word of mouth. We could not have done it with out you all.
For additional details check out this post on TECH cocktail and this post on VentureWeek by TECH cocktail co-host Eric Olson, shown with me to the left. Also be sure to check out the latest TECH cocktail photos on Flickr. If you attended the event be sure to tag your post and photos: techcocktail1
Oh and digg it here.
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