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Interesting concept 4 "conference as festival" w/ open studios: OpenCoSF -A New Kind of #Event | @johnbattelle

I’m very excited to announce that registration is now open for OpenCoSF , a new kind of event that I’m helping to bring into the world. Registration is free and open to anyone who’s interested in innovation in the Bay area. You can sign up here . Already about 1,000 people have expressed interest in coming, and I think we’ve got room for another 500 or so, if my math is correct. So what is OpenCo? Well, it’s one the “seeds” that’s been germinating since I wrote the It’s Hard to Lay Fallow post back in the early summer. A few months before that, I took a mountain bike ride with one of my pals in the business, Magna Global managing partner Brian Monahan. Brian is on the board of sfBIG , a large Bay area marketing and Internet organization. At a recent meeting, the board was tossing around ideas for how to shine a brighter light on the unique culture of innovation here in San...

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