#techdrinkup is a party for NYC's brightest and savviest people in tech to get together at exclusive NYC venues and mingle over drinks and food. It's official. #techdrinkup is one year old. Come celebrate 12 awesome month's of partying the best of the best technologists in NYC. This month, special guest founder Noah Kagan of AppSumo (the daily deals site for web geeks) will be...
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#techdrinkup is a party for NYC's brightest and savviest people in tech to get together at exclusive NYC venues and mingle over drinks and food. It's official. #techdrinkup is one year old. Come celebrate 12 awesome month's of partying the best of the best technologists in NYC. This month, special guest founder Noah Kagan of AppSumo (the daily deals site for web geeks) will be attending. Attendees will be able to ask Noah anything and gain special insights into building startup businesses and becoming Internet famous. Seriously... we plan to get Noah really, really inebriated so that all of our attendees can learn his secrets. Based on the turnout at last month's party at Cellar Bar, we expect over 300 people will attend! This month's party will be held on April 12th at 8PM at Inc Lounge (The Time Hotel) Inc Lounge is a posh venue in the Time Hotel with tons of space to mingle and socialize Founder Tip: @noahkagan & @nevmed share tips on networking while watching people make out in a hot tub The specials: Happy hour contest (from 8pm - 9pm) 1 hour open vodka bar (from 9pm - 10pm) Super fun lounge Private tables (great spaces to chat and order drinks) Awesome photographer (Alex Mora from Guest-of-a-Guest) Great DJ (music will be awesome but it will be quiet enough to chat) The happy hour contest: During the first hour of the party (from 8pm to 9pm) attendees should buy drinks for someone new (and tweet about it). Prizes will be awarded to the people that meet and buy a drink for the most new people. 1st place - $250 in Appsumo credit 2nd place - $100 in Adwords credit 3rd place - A great big sumo hug and a free drink from Appsumo founder Noah Kagan Tech SWAG (Stuff We All Get): AppSumo - A free 60 beta test of Contactually. It's like having a CRM that's a semi automatic weapon. Grab the deal here Founders Card - 40% off annual membership. Remember when your parents bought AAA for their cars? This is AAA for founders. Use the referral code FCDRINK12 to get the discount. Grab the deal here Pics from our last party: Tech Drinkup is not for everyone. Here are the people who should attend: Founders and managers of tech companies Digital marketers and advertisers Technology officers and managers Developers and designers Creative directors Online publishers Venture capitalists and angel investors Web technology specialists Systems integrators Tech journalists and writers Tech hedge fund managers Tech attorneys Tech publicists Tech recruiters Tech solution providers Other tech influencers and people in tech not mentioned above Check out what people are saying in our Meetup group People who work for companies that are changing the Internet and changing the world party at #techdrinkup. Some of our past attendees and #techdrinkup regulars include people from: 2tor ▫ ABC News ▫ American Express ▫ appFigures ▫ AppNexus ▫ Audience Science ▫ Aviary ▫ AXA ▫ Azure Capital Partners ▫ Bank of America Merrill Lynch ▫ BBD0 NY ▫ Beta ▫ Big Fuel ▫ Boxee ▫ Brainscape ▫ Brandwatch ▫ Cardwell+Beach ▫ Carrot Creative ▫ CBS News ▫ CITI ▫ ComScore ▫ Deutsche Bank ▫ EMI ▫ Eventbrite ▫ Flavorpill ▫ Google ▫ Greenleaf Capital ▫ HBO ▫ Hewlett-Packard ▫ Indeed ▫ Insight Venture Partners ▫ Invoke Media ▫ Kaplow ▫ Kohort ▫ Lean Startup Machine ▫ LivePerson ▫ Logicworks ▫ Lotame ▫ Mashable ▫ Mccann Erickson ▫ Merrill Lynch ▫ Morgan Stanley ▫ Mr Youth ▫ MTV Networks ▫ Nielsen McKinsey Incite ▫ The NY Times ▫ Ogilvy ▫ OpenX ▫ P&G ▫ PeekYou ▫ Pixable ▫ Porter Novelli ▫ Primus Capital ▫ Proskauer Rose LLP ▫ Publicis Modem ▫ R/GA ▫ Reuters ▫ The Royal Bank of Scotland ▫ Rubenstein Communications ▫ S&P ▫ Sailthru ▫ Searchmetrics ▫ The Shorty Awards ▫ Shutterstock ▫ SoftBank Capital ▫ Sproutlet ▫ Squarespace ▫ TEDxEast ▫ Termor Media ▫ UBS ▫ Ultra Light Startups ▫ VaynerMedia ▫ VH1 ▫ Viacom ▫ WeWork ▫ Zaarly Contact for Press and Other Inquiries #techdrinkup is produced by Michael Gold (@michaelgold on Twitter) To request a press pass to the event email press@techdrinkup.comFor sponsorship info email sponsorship@techdrinkup.comFor general inquiries or just to say hi email mike@techdrinkup.com