Last Thursday, I had the immense pleasure of doing a little drinky drinky with some of the financial titans of industry at the 4th annual New England VC Wine Tasting. Dana Samuels of TUGG was kind enough to provide me with a complimentary ticket (they normally range about $150), so I was much obliged.

Luckily, I happened to know quite a few people who showed up. There were about 6 people from fama PR whom it was awesome to see (Keri, Keith, Marta, Whitney, Zach, and Liz). If you don’t know fama and you’re in the tech inudstry, you should.  I also ran into Healy Jones of Startable fame, and the new VP Marketing at Pixily, who’s one of my more recent acquaintances.

From there I met an absolute hodge podge of characters ranging from VC’s who were bidding on $5000 dollar cases of wine, to a clean tech entrepreneur who had just sold his $200 million dollar business and miraculously had the chutzpah and energy of an 18 year old. In all, everyone was rather convivial and jolly, no doubt lubricated by the libations, and making random introductions was hardly a problem.

By the end of the night, I had probably consumed about 8 to 10 glasses of wine with nary a bite of food, so my memory gets a bit hazy,and as such, my desire to network diminished accordingly. All in all, it was a phenomenal time and a rather enjoyable experience…I hope to be at the next event. Good luck to Dana Samuels, Jeff Fagnan, et al. and of their aspirations with TUGG.

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