The good:

James Corbett (EirePreneur) - Scoble signs up to PaddysValley. Well, at least he knows well in advance that trip is being arranged.
Damien Mulley (mulley.net) - Paddys already in the Valley. Fantastic to hear that a couple of young Irish guys are getting stuck into a start-up in San Francisco.

The bad:
James Corbett (EirePreneur) - Seems as though not enough people are helping out. PaddysValley is an unproject - please particiate! At the moment Conor O’Neill (Loudervoice.com) and Damien Mulley (mulley.net) are being lumped with most of the work. Both Conor and Damien have done trojan work in Cork between organising the first Barcamp in Ireland as well as the first OpenCoffee Club. So the temptation might be there to leave them with the burden; help out if you’re going!

In doing some prep work for the Paddys Valley trip I put together a list of the more well-known venture capitalists using Google Maps: VC’s in the Valley

The list of VCs in San Francisco, Palo Alto and Menlo Park used in the map above is here:

• 3i
• Accel Partners
• Acorn Ventures, Inc.
• Alta Partners
• August Capital Management, LLC
• Battery Ventures
• Benchmark Capital Management Co., LLC
• Bessemer Venture Partners
• Canaan Partners
• Crosspoint Venture Partners
• Draper Fisher Jurvetson
• El Dorado Ventures
• Institutional Venture Partners
• Integral Capital Partners
• InterWest Partners
• Jumpstart Ventures LLC
• Lightspeed Venture Partners
• Mayfield Fund
• Menlo Ventures
• Mohr, Davidow Ventures
• Morgenthaler
• Panorama Capital, LLC
• Partech International
• Redpoint Ventures
• Scale Venture Partners
• Selby Venture Partners
• Sequoia Capital
• Sierra Ventures
• Sigma Partners
• TPG Ventures, Inc.
• Trinity Ventures
• U.S. Venture Partners
• Vision Capital
• Vista Equity Partners, LLC
• Walden International Investment Group
• WaldenVC

As an aside searching for the companies using Google Maps was very unreliable, often a completely inaccurate address was presented so I had to double check with each sites contact details.

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Back in April Conor O’Neill (after reading Jeremy Fain’s blog) put up a post on the Web 2.0 Ireland blog about a trip (for tech entrepreneurs) to Silicon Valley. It’s a great idea and not surprisingly there’s lots of interest.

Damien Mulley had a post recently about the dates which are December 2nd to December 9th (2007). From the post

We’re still getting the itinerary together but we hope to meet various VC and tech people and also have one evening where the Irish companies present to an audience of investors and influencers. Suggestions for the itinerary are more than welcome.

I’m not entirely sure who the ‘We’ are but from the press release, apart from Damien, Conor O’Neill and James Corbett are listed as the organisers.

In fairness to the guys, they’re inviting anyone along who might benefit from the trip, so if you’ve any interest in Silicon Valley take a look at the PaddysValley blog.

Coincidence or not we’ll be arriving on the same day as the French group (who inspired the trip) are leaving.