FounderDating: First Event is on Sep 9th

Agreed. I met my cofounders here in the bay at SHDH. The next SHDH is this Saturday (www.shdh.org). If you want to find your next cofounder, this is the place to be.

I kind of disagree. In a way Startup School is the same thing. I think when you can assure that all the people are really serious about being there (and are also reasonably qualified) it makes for a higher quality event. I would far rather attend Startup2Startup than Lunch 2.0 for example, the quality of the networking is orders of magnitude better.

In the case of looking for people to start a company with I think I would appreciate that the people who are there have been screened by some sort of process.

It may benefit such an event to signal selectivity even if all invite-requests are granted.

Also, so many people just crash open free events (with beer!) that applying even the slightest seriousness filter could boost the event value a lot for its intended audience.

There are plenty of all-comers networking events, too -- it's not like the bay area tech startup community is either fragile, requiring gentle encouragement to finally grow, or exclusionary, starving for fresh blood.

That could very well be the worst relationship possible.

The empty 'Where' page is really disappointing, couldn't they have at least borrowed the 'Under Construction' gif from the new Sequoia site?