Growing up, I always remember how my grandfather used to tell me: “You never know who you’re going to meet and what it could lead to.” That little anecdote of wisdom couldn’t hold truer when it comes to Startup Stay and the global community of entrepreneurs that it has built.
You have an idea of who you may be meeting, but until you actually sit down and start talking with them, it is still a world of connections and synergies that have yet to be discovered. And in the potentially isolated world of start-up-land, this is sacred oasis of like-minded people.

The day I met Matthew Barnett (British entrepreneur, coming from Sydney, Australia) he ventured out across the sea
to San Francisco to raise some capital for his startup, Vimily. We connected on Startup Stay and decided to meet
for a beer after work and talk about the bold and adventurous world of entrepreneurship, as well as the startups we were both working on. He liked my background in feel-good philanthropy and social enterprise, and I was
interested in hearing more about how his business went about capturing the life stories of loved ones. (more…)