Open Coffee Ericeira is a friendly, informal networking event for entrepreneurs, professionals, locals, guests, and people in the startup community in Ericeira. Your hosts for our July event will be Olga Kirillova, Carsten Pfisterer, and Richard Lucas, the Founder of Open Coffee Lisbon. You may find a mentor, investor, client, co-founder, employer, vendor, inspiration, or friend. Please post your contact details and a link to your Linkedin and/or webpage in this group chat for this event. People who post here will be given priority. We meet at 10:00 AM sharp. Everybody gets up to 2 minutes to present: 1. Who they are and what they are doing 2. What they want 3. How they can help others At 11 AM we stop hosting and you can talk to people who are most interesting to you. We're focused on business and social entrepreneurs, the startup community, and anyone else doing something interesting or wanting to get involved in other people's projects. You can talk about any project/topic. Open Coffee Ericeira is an “un-meeting” without a speaker or agenda. We are focused on attendees gaining value from other attendees. The rules, tools, structure, and moderation aim to facilitate this goal. What's the BIG idea behind Open Coffee? We want to help people create useful business connections. Everyone's welcome to our meetings, and we especially love first-timers. We want to make sure that if somebody coming from an unsupportive background/country has the courage to join, they'll notice that we are glad they came because we welcome them. If you feel shy, you can also just listen but we encourage you to talk. Each attendee also get to show their LinkedIn page or website through our channels and showcase their idea. This event is based on the Open Coffee Krakow format, run by Richard Lucas and others in Krakow Poland since 2013. Join our [Ericeira MettaCollective WhatsApp community](https://chat.whatsapp.com/DvtKAR0qIQM9dr3BrOgL06) (please contact +351915422778 for accepting your join request). It's a group of over 400 Ericeira-based business owners, entrepreneurs, freelancers, and digital nomads. Follow our organizer Olga on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/olga-kirillova/) or [IG](https://www.instagram.com/the100kmentor/) or Carsten on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carsten-pfisterer/) and you can also join our [email list](https://app.mettacoaching.com/v2/preview/r9ZlaKa6oJt6kBnaPeKz?notrack=true), so we can tell you about more free events run by volunteers. If you don't want us to do that, don't give us your number or email. If you change your mind you can leave the chat/mailing list at any time. Thanks to *Coastal Cowork Collective* for hosting us and providing freshly brewed coffee to all attendees.
