MeetingWave.com - The How for Who What Where When and Why.

http://www.meetingwave.com/

MeetingWave's Fundamental Value: MeetingWave is an online tool for networking off-line for business, professional or social reasons. MeetingWave allows its users to set up meetings that are open to people they have never met.  Meeting organizers can specify the types of people they want to attend their meetings, while still maintaining a high degree of control over who actually attends.

How MeetingWave Works:  A user of MeetingWave can arrange offline meetings with new people by following the site's simple Invite process:

1. An organizer looking to meet people can post a "Public Invite" describing the purpose of the proposed meeting and/or the types of people the organizer would like to meet.
   
2. MeetingWave would then notify the organizer by email each time someone accepts the organizer's Public Invite.
   
3. The organizer must then approve or decline each acceptance by a user -- and can do so for any reason.  After the organizer "approves" or "declines" an acceptance, MeetingWave notifies the user who accepted whether he or she may attend the organizer's meeting. Only "approved" guests may attend.  The meeting organizer ultimately controls whether the meeting will happen and who may attend.

Other Features of MeetingWave:  Meeting organizers can choose to have their meeting location disclosed only to "approved" attendees. MeetingWave's messaging system allows meeting organizers to communicate -- directly and privately -- with those who have indicated an interest in attending their meetings.  MeetingWave also allows organizers to set up meetings that recur on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.  Yet another distinctive feature of our site is the "Archive" functionality which allows meeting organizers to save and review Invites they have posted in the past to keep a record of where meetings occurred and who attended them.

Users can post Invites for coffee, lunch, dinner, drinks, or any other purpose.  Or, a user can search and browse through Invites posted by others and accept any of interest.

Issues:

• We need people to not only come to the site, but some users to post good interesting invites for networking meetings, others to accept those invites (and get approved by the inviter) and all to show up to the meeting.  And we need that in each location.  Possible?  What's the best strategy for success?
  
• What's holding people back from using the site now?
  
• Should we focus on business networking or social networking?

Logistics:

Our gracious host is Rose Tech Ventures and there is no cost to attend. Please note my mobile # below; you may need to call me to gain entrance to the building.

Monday, July 28th. 7PM - 9PM.

30 East 23rd Street (Madison Ave)
7th Floor

Nearest subway stops: 23rd St on the F,V (6th Ave), the R,W (Broadway) or the 6 (Park Ave).

Jonah Keegan
m: 347-813-0927

Bio:

John Boyd, the founder of www.MeetingWave.com, practiced patent law for over a decade before launching the site.  His experience includes working behind enemy lines as a patent examiner at the US Patent Office, toiling away as an associate at private law firms in NYC, and later serving as Chief IP Counsel for biotech companies and most recently a semiconductor technology company.  He received a BS from Columbia University and a JD from George Mason University School of Law in Virginia.   After living in NYC for a number of years, he moved to Ridgefield, CT where he lives with his wife and two small children.