Learn From Proven Entrepreneurs

When I read that Richard Wolpert was heading a new fund, I offered to introduce him to some of the great startups that I met by organizing Mixergy events. He said that as soon as he was settled in his new office we could meet at his place, which is what we did today.

Here are some of the great people who came:

Richard Wolpert – Founder of the MailRoom Fund. (Web site coming soon, but you can read about him here.)

Andrew Warner (Me) – Founder, Mixergy.com, invitations that help guests meet before events. (And host of events like this one.)

Ryan Scott – He invented opt-in email, patented the technology, built a publicly traded company around it and sold it. He’s now working on an unlaunched site: CauseCast.org.

Emad Fanous and Ask Bjørn Hansen – They used to work for CitySearch. They recently launched a competing site called YellowBot.

Jon Bischke – He launched EduFire.com recently using a little angel funding. He’s obsessed with online & multimedia learning.

Kareem Mayan – Launched EduFire.com with Jon. Previously worked at Fox Interactive & ESPN.

Christophe Louvion – He’s Gorilla Nation‘s CTO. He’s working on integrating Gorilla’s acquisitions.

Daniel Gould – Founded NewRoo.com, which was bought out by FIM and is now MySpace News

John Hering – He hacked celebrities’ phones during the Oscars to prove that cell phones were vulnerable to attack. Now his company, Flexilis, is developing mobile security.

Otis Chandler – Launched goodreads.com, a social network for book lovers.

Jade Van Doren – Founded TechForward.com. Bascially they sell puts on electronics. For a few bucks, anyone buying a gadget has the right to sell it back to TechForward whenever they want.

Roy Rubin – Building Magento, an open source eCommerce platform.

Rich DeMuro – Tech reporter for KCAL-TV & KCBS-TV. Check out his tech podcast on iTunes.

Rob Williams – Founded Conectados, the first Spanish-language social network

Chad Boyda and Joel Thoms – Founded Launch 10, a social gaming Web site.

MIchael Khalili – Developer and entrepreneur.

Mallika Chopra – Co-founder of IntenetBlog and soon to launch Intent.

If you want to come to a future entrepreneur lunch or want host one, contact me.