The 27 Dinner this month was held at the Metro Bistro in Benmore… with the most awesome food… and a cosmopolitan as you walked in the door (much to Don Packett’s dismay as he wasn’t very pleased to have been drinking that unmanly drink when I took his photo LOL!!).  The speakers tonight included Eve D who spoke about the Crowd Fund and Geek Space; Mark Stacey; Vinny Lingham who spoke about running a successful online business based on his Yola experiences… and a quick 30 second talk by Eran Eyal who spoke about a new venture that’s launching in September around building crowdsourcing sites.

It was a good evening in all, and I met new people, and learnt a few things… which is always worthwhile in my books

I wasn’t the only one with a camera tonight… and I was drooling over Paul Bedford’s 1D

Don, I made the colours more manly to compensate for the girly drink

Mark Stacey and Vinny Lingham
@eved talking about crowdfunding

The beautiful Melody, from Cerebra who puts so much effort into making this function a success!

I finally got to meet @africanabc aka Graham in real life!

Vinny talking about Yola

There is always a lot of networking going on via Twitter during the evening… as Philly_girl is illustrating

And finally, Eran Eyal from Springleap fame (yes, those cool t-shirts) talking about his new venture

And there are more photos on my Flickr Set… just look at the end of the set for tonight’s photos

It was an awesome evening… I’ll be at the next one for sure