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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