Entrepreneur Khai Tran issued an invitation last spring to a program for start-ups, not sure how many would come. The event was in Camden. After hours.
His primary goal was to answer one question: “Is there a start-up crowd here?”
The answer was a decisive, albeit sweaty, “Yes.”
“We had 280 people,” Tran recalled. “One-hundred-fifty fit into the room legally.”
The air conditioning was on the fritz, not that it mattered. The over-capacity gathering that Wednesday evening spilled out of the meeting room and into the hallway and lobby of the Waterfront Technology Center on Federal Street. Those attending persevered through personal discomfort to take in a panel discussion, a pitch competition, and lots of schmoozing.
Image: Khai Tran ran a meeting for start-ups. “We had 280 people,” he said. “One-hundred-fifty fit into the room legally.” DAVID MAIALETTI / Staff Photographer
