For Jack Wrigley, co-founder of mobile-app company Qwiqq, Dallas is a great place to live but it can’t hold a candle to Silicon Valley as a fount of venture capital for a consumer Internet company.
Qwiqq co-founder Jack Wrigley met with top investors for feedback about his mobile-app company — and maybe eventually some crucial financial backing. So when the opportunity arose to fly out to San Francisco for a national venture capital conference and get serious face time with big-time venture investors – with free airfare, to boot – he and his co-founder jumped at the chance.
Wrigley and his co-founder, John Phan, were among the more than 170 entrepreneurs participating Tuesday in a National Venture Capital Association experiment to engage entrepreneurs by hosting what was billed as the world’s largest office hours at the group’s VentureScape annual meeting in San Francisco.
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