Chris Hutchins

Going Around the World

If you’ve found this site, there’s a good chance you already know this, but I’ve already left for SXSW. I’ll be traveling around the world with my girlfriend Amy Fox and won’t stop until I get to Austin for SXSW 2010 in March. Check out our tentative travel plan below, or just follow us on our travel blog at: http://withoutaguide.com

Dave McClure: How to Pitch a VC

Last weekend I attended PresentationCamp in San Francisco. It was my first non-LaidOffCamp “camp”, and I was surprised (and flattered) that some people turned to me for guidance about how to run a camp. I personally tried my best to deflect questions to Dale Larson who I knew had much more “camp” experience than me.

Anyways, I only managed to catch one of the presentations on video, Dave McClure’s “How to Pitch a VC (aka Startup Viagra: How to Give a VC a Hard-On)”. For those of you who don’t know him, Dave is a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur, angel investor, startup advisor, and blogger. Enjoy!

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LaidOffCamp SF was a Major Success

I’m in the midst of a much longer post on LaidOffCamp, but I wanted to share a few highlights of last weeks inaugural LaidOffCamp in San Francisco:

• Over 400 people showed up
• 35 Sessions were held by over 50 different presenters / facilitators
• Over 30 sponsors made the event possible

Here are some of my favorite posts / articles / videos about the event:

• Great article from Michael Calore at Wired
• Great Evening News segment from Thuy Vu at CBS 5
• Awesome video / blog post from Amy Ziari (who is new to SF)
• Great Slideshow (with Audio) from James Martin at CNET
• More media coverage here

2009 Life Update

Note: This was intended to be released a few weeks ago, but do to some unforseen circumstances it is a few weeks late.

So it’s finally 2009… As you may or may not know, 2008 was definitely a year of many changes for me. This time last year I was just getting settled with my girlfriend, Amy Fox in New York City. Now we’ve both moved across the country together and are living in San Francisco.

Here are a few updates:

• In September (right before the economy started to crumble), and after a year and a half in NYC, Amy and I decided that we wanted to be in a place that we could see ourselves living in for more than a couple years. We looked at a few different cities (Boston, Chicago, Denver/Boulder), but ended up going with San Francisco, primarily because my company had an office there and would pay for our moving expenses. So Amy left her job (which she wasn’t very happy with in the first place) and in mid-October we headed West.

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