The Epicness of London, Part 1

I'm sitting in my hotel at 4:30 pm, sipping a latte, and munching on my third BLT this week (this one actually has bacon!) I'm pretty sure I've still got remnants of make up on from the night before. All my grand statements about how the nature of my business is to meet people and schmooze aside, this blog post might be the first "proper" work I've done all week. I'm also disturbingly sore. My throat is scratchy. My gut hurts from near-non-stop laughter (mostly at Robert Loch and Paul Carr, not with. See below.) My liver has to be groaning from over-exertion. And for some odd reason, today my triceps are sore. No idea on that one.

I know we throw around the word "epic" quite a bit, but this has been an epic trip. So epic in fact, that I'll have to detail it in a few posts. And don't worry: We've got flipcam footage. A quick taste is below.

I guess the most important thing to note is how fabulous the book launch party went on Friday. It was held at the Soho Revue Bar-- the second oldest strip club in London and had a standing room only crowd and a bar graciously sponsored by Fidelity Ventures. Mr. Loch and Mr. Carr interviewed me on stage and mostly behaved. I believe there's footage somewhere I'll try to find and post. As you can see from this post, I still haven't learned tact, and I'm quite sure I offended someone with all that "honesty." I mean, don't ask me to call out bad VCs in the Valley and not expect an answer.... Huge, huge thanks to Paul, Walshy and Robert Loch for making it happen.

Also, since this is the second Brit to express admiration for my, ahem, cojones, I feel I should point out for the record, that I am indeed a girl. Now we're off to have a "proper roast" Judith is graciously preparing. More tomorrow. (If we survive another night with this crew.)

Untitled from sarah lacy on Vimeo.