So the amazing American Business Safari for startups and Happy Farm Business Incubator residents started on the 1st of April. No fools, everything is serious! 

Saar Leroy, Startup Relations Manager @ Happy Farm

First full day in San Francisco! And Fool’s day as well! ;)

We met outside of the hotel at 8 a.m. to take the bus to the train station. We bought a one day pass for the CallTrain and off we went. Destination: Mountain View. 

We went to Mountain View to visit Ziv Gillat’s company: Eye-Fi. Eye-Fi makes SD cards that automatically transfer your photos and videos from your camera to your smartphone or tablet. It has its own WiFi Network. So you can upload your picture to your smartphone wherever you are! It is an amazing product, and it is really cool to walk around the office and hear how they started, their challenges and success. We also met Ziv’s colleague Irina, who is from Ukraine.

 

Ziv is not only a great entrepreneur, but also a great mentor. We sat into one of the conference rooms and he listened to our startups and shared some advice and ideas.

After a 2 hours visit we had to say goodbye. Ziv gave us all a Eye-Fi SD card, which we immediately tried J

After a quick lunch in Mountain View, we took the train to San Mateo, where we met Vitaly Golomb at Keen Systems. Vitaly talked to us about what Keen does and how they got to be a big as they are now. We also got the change to talk to the head of sales, who gave some great advice.

We also met Edouard who was talking about his startup, Rove. He shared his story and experiences with us. Always great to meet enthusiastic startupers!

 

After this meeting we rushed back to the city. We had to get to our dinner with mentors! The venue was amazing: a sushi restaurant on Pier 39, with view on the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz! We had 20 mentors and Happy Farm friends joining us and we enjoyed some sushi and a lot of networking and funny contests!

After this long day, we all went back to the hotel. Tomorrow is a quiet day. We can prepare for the next events and we have a meeting with Vlad Voskresensky in the evening.

See you tomorrow!