Walk Into a Room Full of Ideas (and People Who Actually Build Them)
Step out of your inbox and into a room buzzing with ambition, where founders, builders, and dreamers are showing up IRL. Conversations spark, ideas collide, and collaborations happen on the spot.
Scene 1: Thursday Morning
You wake up. Sunlight spills across your apartment floor.
Your coffee tastes slightly bitter. Your dog is judging you. Your inbox? Overflowing.
You scroll Twitter, check email, scroll some more… and then you remember: tonight, NYC is assembling 200+ startup minds IRL.
A shiver runs down your spine. Something tells you this could be… different.
Scene 2: Walking to Sour Mouse
The streets of NYC hum with life. Taxi horns. Street performers. The faint smell of bagels.
You’re walking to Sour Mouse, earbuds tucked away, and suddenly you notice something: other people—hundreds of them—looking equally caffeinated, ambitious, and slightly chaotic.
They’re carrying laptops, sketchbooks, notebooks, napkin ideas, and some just sheer audacity.
The doors open at 5 PM, and the energy hits like a live wire.
Scene 3: The Room
Inside, it’s a controlled chaos masterpiece:
Founders animatedly pitching products that don’t exist yet.
Investors leaning in, asking questions that make your brain sprint.
Designers sketching furiously while sharing inside jokes.
Someone scribbles a napkin prototype on a table, and an excited co-founder-to-be immediately jumps in.
You pause. Take a deep breath. This… this is what IRL energy feels like.
Scene 4: Conversations That Matter
You find yourself:
Talking to a founder muttering about APIs, and realizing they might be your perfect co-founder.
Sitting next to an investor who funded a startup once… just because the pitch made them laugh.
Leaning over a table where a prototype is being sketched, wondering how you can contribute.
Every conversation spins into something unexpected. Every laugh sparks a new idea. Every handshake might lead to a collaboration that changes your trajectory.
Scene 5: The Unexpected
Somewhere in the chaos:
A developer explains a breakthrough they had at 3 AM.
A builder sketches a roadmap on a napkin.
You accidentally join a deep discussion about AI, SaaS, or some wild startup concept you didn’t know existed five minutes ago.
And just like that, the night becomes a collision of ambition, ideas, and pure NYC energy.
Scene 6: You Leave
You step out of Sour Mouse. Your dog’s waiting at home. Your inbox is still overflowing. But something is different:
You leave with a prototype sketch.
A partnership proposal.
A story no one will believe on LinkedIn.
And maybe… just maybe… a future co-founder or investor.
This wasn’t just a networking event. This was an experience.
And it could’ve only happened IRL, in a room full of 200+ people who dared to show up.
Event Details
📍 Where: Sour Mouse, NYC
🗓 When: Thursday, Oct 2
⏰ Time: 5:00 PM (doors open)
Bring curiosity. Bring ideas. Bring your weirdest startup thought.
TL;DR
200+ people are coming IRL.
Founders, investors, dreamers, builders.
Chaos, creativity, collaboration, energy.
One night. Infinite possibilities.
See you Oct 2 👋
Aneesh Lal, Founder
Jaynish Shah, Community Lead
Team Startup+
🌐 www.startupplus.club
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