[hayksaakian]

If you think about it like a high ticket networking event or a business conference then it can be.

If you show up and expect to get rich and famous by standing next to a table, then you'll be disappointed.

[sillysaurus3]

Dunno about that. If you work each day in any random coffee shop in SV -- well, maybe not random, but one of the popular ones -- you'll run into people working on some exciting tech. I don't think most of the country is like that.

[Caveman_Coder]

> "...exciting tech"

That's debatable. Here are some of the Startup Alley companies:

- Stemless Co (buying weed)

- Mycroft AI (another freaking voice assistant...with AI)

- Topology Eyewear (custom glasses using 3D face models)

- Reely (Sports hightlights...with AI)

- WeTravel (disrupting the dead travel planner industry)

- Teuko (lunchboxes and tech?)

- Switchit (uh...business cards)

- GamerLink (Facebook, but for gamers)

https://techcrunch.com/event-info/disrupt-sf-2017/startup-al...

[lozenge]

It's like something out of Silicon Valley.

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[tanilama]

Something u can build in a coffee shop with your computer doesn't sound exciting enough to me. Maybe it was exciting 10 years ago, but building a website/app/service is commodity now, it is not special at all.