Unfortunately, a miss-communication with my babysitter had me go home instead of attend the fishbowl last night. I ditchd Brian Glick and my partner, Chris Myers and had to go on home. 

I read the feed last night and the posts this morning. I just got done reading Alex Hillman's post about it.

Here are my comments:

Fragmentation of the community

PSL originally started for the non-founders and myself as the Happy Hours.  They were a way for everyone to see who was there and what people were up to. But 3 years on the happy hours have become inconsistent, moved around and generally not promoted. PSL was largely formed by the people meeting at the Happy Hours and then they were suddenly untended as the big 1 time events like FounderFactory became the focus of the leadership and the things to 'Market.' This was a huge mistake. The community was lost and PSL became a listserve + 2 events per year.

As for the fragmentation, that's a good thing. The Philly Tech meetup is an example of the need being addressed. It's hilarious at one level because I've attended so many PSL events and read so many listserve emails about not enough tech-entrepreneurs in Philadelphia.  It turns out there's a bunch, they just didn't want to work for free at someone ELSE's startup. 

PSL has to focus on fostering the larger community it's part of. It should be reaching out to the GameLab and Tech meetups and helping them and being a larger umbrella for what's going on here. It needs to keep up its maintenance events as well.