Festival of open houses taps San Francisco's tech startup allure

By Malathi Nayak SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - New York-based entrepreneur Caleb Gandara came to San Francisco this week and managed a rare feat: he spent half a day roaming the offices of hot startups DropBox, Cloudera and Sidecar, chatting up executives at will. Gandara was one of 3,700 people who signed up for "OpenCo", a festival of open houses held at scores of San Francisco startups, non-profits and corporations from Google Inc to local business and chocolatier TCHO over two hectic days. ...



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