Mr. i know everyone!

The past two months – November and December – I was in full speed attending events, meeting people and visiting companies. It’s great to start seeing familiar faces at all those meet-ups. The young and ambitious Arianna O’Dell even described me as “Mr. i know everyone” some weeks ago. While I still have to meet tons of people I agree I’m doing my best to integrate in the tech scene. One of the most interesting events of past months were MindCamp, Ignite, Cold Pavement, AdClub and obviously Social Media Club Seattle at the Microsoft campus with afterparty sponsored by Sprint!

But not only through those events I get to meet interesting people. While I was walking around Pioneer Square I noticed a sign that said ‘Ratio Interactive’. I looked them up on Twitter and soon I was in a conversation with Keith and Darren. A few days later I visited their offices and went for after-work beers with them. Cool dudes and interesting company with a fancy office! But not as fancy as Methodologie’s offices where Luis showed me around after meeting him at Cold Pavement (and Ignite and AdClub,…). He showed me some neat brand guides they created for Boeing.

Other people I get to see at most of the events are the sweet Veronica, Geek of the Week Maya and smart and sexy Jessica who is leaving Seattle for a career at Digitas NY. Too bad I didn’t know her earlier so I could see the inside of Publicis where she was previously working. Oh, besides all those women – almost forgot to mention the fun gals Taylor, Elise and Charity – I also met some interesting dudes like video producer Greg to talk about his start-up idea, beer lover Elliott who’s managing the Alaska Airlines twitter feed and Aril the marketing guy behind the Italian-American crowd sourcing site Zooppa. I also got to meet Ksenia and Bryan from Lilipip and I’ve met up with Scott who gave me some insights on the successful Cheezburger network and entrepreneur and investor Joe from White Pages.

Using Foursquare for iPhone I’ve carefully tracked all places where I’ve been since I arrived in Seattle three months ago. In the above image you can see a heatmap with spots where I hung out most. You can clearly see I spend a lot of time in the Downtown and Belltown area while spending the nights at my friends’ house in Columbia City, in the south of Seattle.

The past months have been very exciting but very tiring as well. Meeting so many people and following up everyone requires a lot of energy!

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