Hi there,<p>My name is Max, I'm a cofounder at Kera, and we're from Toronto. We started Kera to teach the world how to use software.<p>Cameron (one of my cofounders) and I are coming to SF the week after next (Oct 22-26) so we can make new friends and learn how companies like yours are educating and onboarding new users. We're also looking for advice about building our startup. If you're doing something interesting, have an awesome company culture, or just like hanging with Canadians, we'd love to meet you.<p>Any referrals or introductions are more than welcome.<p>You can find out more about Kera here (http://kera.io), and we can be found at @maxcameron & @camwest on twitter.<p>Thanks in advance,<p>Max<p>edit: my email is max@kera.io
I find this entire approach fascinating.<p>That someone can post this on HN and get a bunch of invites back.<p>Does doing something like this scale? What if everybody just decided to post "hey I'm coming to SF is there a place for me to crash" or "hey I'm coming to NYC anyone want to have coffee?" or "I have a problem writing perl..."<p>Since there are companies that you are trying to reach, and you must have some idea of the type of company you want to reach, why not put some effort into doing something other than the obvious easiest thing which is to post an "Ask HN" and see who bites?<p>(For the record I wouldn't feel the same way if a top commenter who spends much time on HN made a similar request because at least they have put time and effort into HN (and I don't consider my karma as anywhere near that point for the record.)
There have been quite a few threads like this on HN over the years (including one I made :-)). I wonder if there's some way of formalizing or aggregating the concept of visiting other companies, it seems there's an audience for it.
Hi Max. My Name is Robert Reiz. I am the founder of <a href="http://www.versioneye.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.versioneye.com</a>. That is my second Start-Up. I am coming at the same time to San Francisco, from Germany. I like your product, I like Canadians and of course I like Beer :-)
I will contact you.
Checkout <a href="http://openco.us/" rel="nofollow">http://openco.us/</a>, they are doing a kickoff today where you can spend an hour visiting a startup in their list, from airbnb to zynga and beyond
Drop by whitetruffle ( <a href="https://www.whitetruffle.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.whitetruffle.com/</a> ). We're located in Rocketspace coworking space. @froseph or joseph@whitetruffle.com
Come stop by. <a href="http://www.appdirect.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.appdirect.com</a><p>We're based in San Francisco but founded by two Canadians.
Very, very cool startup.<p>For us non-technical folk, you might wish to add a section to your how-to explaining how Kera.io would interact with proprietary data; for example, if our app happens to be financial, would you be able to see any of it? Or is the script hosted on our end?<p>(This may be obvious to a dev, but not to me, and therefore caused me to send this to our devs to ask)
Your software is really cool. Just wondering why you haven't completed your website yet. The "how it works" just takes you to a google doc. Anyway, best of luck. If you want to venture to Lake Tahoe, I'd be happy to grab a beer.
We do payments (<a href="https://www.ribbon.co" rel="nofollow">https://www.ribbon.co</a>) and would love to show you our offices in SOMA.<p>hany@ribbon.co
Max, Kera.io looks awesome, congratulations.<p>Happy to have you guys visit, and we'd love to talk about using the product too.<p>We're in SOMA. stefano ]a-t[ betable.com