Good morning NYC startups!It’s Internet Week. i.e. more tech events than you can shake a Wii controller at. Check out the full listing of events here.

This week’s startup highlight: “SpotOn is the easiest way to discover and go to new places with your friends. Just download the iPhone application here, start rating some places, and you’ll be on your way to getting personalized and actionable recommendations for where to go!” Want to get your startup mentioned? Let us know here.

Get your tickets now for the NYC Startup Weekend on June 10-12 — they are selling out fast. For people looking for opportunities in the startup world, this is the perfect opportunity (and no, they don’t pay me to say that).

For newcomers: The NYC StartupDigest is an events list, created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, that is laser-focused on the needs of startups in NYC. Please send feedback to carter@thestartupdigest.com and frank.denbow@thestartupdigest.com.

NYC StartupDigest is curated by:
Carter Cleveland – Founder, Art.sy
Frank Denbow – Founder, Songsicle

 

 

NYC StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has been working with the startup community for almost 30 years.  The SVB NYC office has been running for 10 years and we work with many NYC startups.  If you want to learn more about how we can help your startup, get in touch with Shai Goldman at sgoldman@svb.com.

 

 

What’s Going On in the NYC Startup Community:

Monday, June 6

Realtime NY 11: Business on the social, mobile, and realtime web
B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, 237 West 42 St at 8amLearn how top brands are creating real business value with tools like Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook.

Online = Offline: A conversation with Fred Wilson and David Lee
General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor at 6:30pmDiscuss the convergence of online and offline with Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures and David Lee of SV Angel.

Designing for Web Using CSS and Web Fonts
General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor at 8pmYou will be guided through a collaborative layout building exercise, providing practical CSS tips and browser troubleshooting techniques.

Tuesday, June 7

MongoNYC ($100)
The Desmond Tutu Center at 9:30amMongoNYC is a multi-track, one-day conference dedicated to the open source database MongoDB.

NY Tech Meetup
NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 Laguardia Place at 7:30pmCome for an evening of awesome startup demos.

Wednesday, June 8

Food 2.0
Wix Lounge, 10 W 18th St, 2nd Floor at 10:30amJoin the discussion about how technology is shaping the way we interact with and produce food.

NYC Mobile Forum: The present and future of 2D/QR codes
1540 Broadway at 6:30pmIndustry experts will share insights about the future of 2D barcodes as a mobile tool.

Ignite NYC
Tishman Auditorium at The New School, 66 W 12th St at 6:30pmGreat speaker lineup includes Maya Baratz (WSJ), Brian Stelter (NY Times), Michael Karnjanaprakorn (SkillShare) and more.

FlashFwd: Music Tech Awards & Concert
Gramercy Theatre, E 23rd btwn Park & Madison at 7pmCome celebrate and honor 5 music tech innovators.

Thursday. June 9

Music Startup Academy: Strategies, Tactics, and Operations
General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor at 6pmThis course will discuss industry XML standards for content delivery, and royalty reporting, metadata, best practices, and troubleshooting.

Lead Generation Revenue Models
Microsoft, 1290 6th Ave at 6:30pmA panel of experts will cover everything you want to know about lead generation.

Defining the Graph Ecosystem
The Ladders, 205 Hudson St, 8th Floor at 6:30pmLearn about the history and development of graph theory and data structures, some factors contributing to their recent popularity, and some predictions for the future.

What If Consumers Controlled Their Data?
General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor at 7pmJoin the discussion focused on figuring out what a better web looks like with users in the driver’s seat (steering with their data).

Friday, June 10

AWS Summit 2011 | New York
Hilton New York, 1335 Avenue of the Americas at 9:30amGain a better understanding of Amazon Web Services, including best practices for developing, architecting, and securing apps in the cloud.

NYC Startup Weekend
General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor at 5pmCome share ideas, form a team, build a product, and launch a startup this weekend.

Saturday, June 11

Creative Blog Writing Workshop
The Lounge at North Square, 103 Waverly Place at 9:30amLearn fresh methods of generating new ideas and leave with a ready-to-launch WordPress blog and at least three posts.

Flavorpill’s NYC Culture Hunt
Starts at 3pmFollow clues on your iPhone to search for virtual objects throughout venues across NYC.

Monday, June 13

8am – ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit
8:30am – Green Breakfast Club Launch
6:30pm – Founders @Fail: James Altucher (Reset, StockPickr)
7pm – Hack and Tell MeetupTuesday, June 14

9am – Internet Society: What kind of internet do you want?
5pm – Medical Devices Meetup
8pm – An Introduction to CSS3Wednesday, June 15

8:30am – Gamification NYC
8:45am – #140 conf NYC
6pm – Women in Wireless: Your Personal Brand
6:30pm – Patient Perspectives Panel on Health InnovationThursday, June 16

12pm – Silicon Alley Talent Fair
6:30pm – NYC Pitch Party Business NetworkingTop Upcoming NYC Startup Events

Tuesday, June 28 – eAmore NYC Dating Industry Summit

Good morning NYC startups!

This week’s featured early-stage NYC startup is Fiesta Technology, creator of the dead-simple email group creation product Fiesta.cc. Just cc any email with your-group-name@fiesta.cc and an email group is automatically created for that address. Want to get your startup mentioned? Let us know here.

Get your tickets now for the NYC Startup Weekend on June 10-12. Startup Weekend is the perfect way to get your feet wet in the startup world — and it’s wicked fun :).

By the way, did you know that today is ManhattanHenge?

For newcomers: The NYC StartupDigest is an events list, created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, that is laser-focused on the needs of startups in NYC. Please send feedback to carter@thestartupdigest.com and frank.denbow@thestartupdigest.com.

NYC StartupDigest is curated by:
Carter Cleveland – Founder, Art.sy
Frank Denbow – Founder, Songsicle

 

 

NYC StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has been working with the startup community for almost 30 years.  The SVB NYC office has been running for 10 years and we work with many NYC startups.  If you want to learn more about how we can help your startup, get in touch with Shai Goldman at sgoldman@svb.com.

 

Monday

Tech Stars NYC Demo Day
Starts at 1pm

Check out the best from the most recent class of Tech Stars NYC.

Tuesday

Design for Entrepreneurs and Hackers
General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor at 6pm

This session will cover the value and role of design in a startup and establish some basic principles of good design.

An Introduction to HTML5 and CSS3
General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor at 8pm

Get your questions about HTML5 and CSS3 answered.

Wednesday

Founders @Fail: Brad Burnham (Union Square Ventures)
General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor at 6:30pm

Learn from a veteran VC who built one of the most respected firms in the business.

Community Management: Content Creation for Communities
General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor at 6:30pm

Get hands-on practice listening, curating, and segmenting content.

Braindump 4: Breaking the rules
Hunch HQ, 54 W 21st St #1001 at 8pm

Come show off your favorite example of broken rules in code.

Thursday

Startup Revenue Models
Starts at 8am

Explore business models across a range of both new and old industries.

Startup Sales Strategy: How to Get the First Meeting
General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor at 6pm

Learn from Anand Chopra-McGowan, Brand Alchemist at SCVNGR.

From Startup to Business
Dogpatch Labs, 36 E 12th St at 7pm

Learn how to establish your customer base, stand up to your competition, recruit and manage key employees, continuously improve and expand, and, ultimately, build a profitable, long-lasting company.

Introduction to Mobile Web App Development
General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor at 7:30pm

Learn the the basics to build a mobile web app using jQuery Mobile.

Friday

DUMBO Tech Breakfast Meetup
Choice Market, 108 Jay St, Brooklyn at 8:30am

Grab some food and talk some tech.

Saturday

Mobile Gaming Summit (use code SDIGEST for 40% off)
General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor at 9am

Join world-class mobile game developers, designers, studios and investors in the first-ever Mobile Gaming Summit.

NYC Startup and Dim Sum Enthusiasts Meetup
Jing Fong Restaurant, 20 Elizabeth St at 10:30am

Sunday

Pair Programming & Hackfest
Think Coffee, 248 Mercer St at 2pm

Code together to help each other bootstrap your learning process.

 

Top Upcoming NYC Startup Events

June 6-13 – Internet Week New York
June 6-7 – Conversational Marketing Summit
June 6 – A Conversation with Fred Wilson and David Lee
June 6 – Realtime NY 11
June 6 – Bitcoin for Beginners
June 7 – mediabistro.com’s Internet Week Party
June 7 – Create your first touch enabled mobile website
June 7 – CloudCamp NY
June 8 – NYC Speed Network for Business
June 8 – New York Magento Group Meetup
June 8 – NYC Java Meetup
June 9-12 – Flash and the City 2011
June 9 – Starters & Startups
June 9 – Lead Generation Revenue Models
June 10-12 – Startup Weekend NYC
June 10 – AWS Summit New York
June 15-16 – #140 conf
June 16 – Silicon Alley Talent Fair

 

Good morning NYC startups!

Exciting news, the NYC StartupDigest is adding 3 new members to our team: Lindsey, Julia, and Satjot. Thank you so much to everyone who applied. It was extremely hard to decide from such a large number of highly qualified and passionate applicants.

Are you a super-early-stage NYC startup looking for early adopters? We want to promote you in the digest. If you’re interested, shoot us an email.

Looking to work at a startup or looking to hire? Apply for the Silicon Alley Job Fair.

For newcomers: The NYC StartupDigest is an events list, created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, that is laser-focused on the needs of startups in NYC. Please send feedback to carter@thestartupdigest.com and frank.denbow@thestartupdigest.com.

NYC StartupDigest is curated by:
Carter Cleveland – Founder, Art.sy
Frank Denbow – Founder, Songsicle

 

 

NYC StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has been working with the startup community for almost 30 years.  The SVB NYC office has been running for 10 years and we work with many NYC startups.  If you want to learn more about how we can help your startup, get in touch with Shai Goldman at sgoldman@svb.com.

 

Monday

Essentials of Startup Law
General Assembly, 902 Broadway at 6pm

Discuss the alternatives available for startups to raise capital, including convertible notes, preferred stock and common stock.

Traversing Graph Databases with Gremlin
SpringSource at EMC, 2 Penn Plaza (32nd St and 7th Ave) at 6:30pm

This mini-lecture and short-tutorial will introduce the Gremlin traversal language and explain its applicability to real-world problems.

TechStars NYC Happy Hour with David Cohen
Apple Restaurant & Bombar at 7pm

Come learn about TechStars from Founder and CEO David Cohen and meet some of the alumni from companies like ADstruc, Ignighter, The Shared Web, CrowdTwist, RedRover, ToVieFor, Nestio, Shelby, OnSwipe, FriendsList and more.

NYC Web Design Meetup
Starts at 7pm

This panel discussion will explore methodologies and best practices related to incorporating good User Experience Design into the design process and serves as an introduction to “Lean UX”.

Tuesday

Virtual Sales Presentations: A How-to Guide
General Assembly, 902 Broadway at 6pm

This class provides a 10 step process that will help students connect with their customers virtually and keep them engaged throughout a presentation.

How Not To Code: The MongoDB Edition
Starts at 6:30pm

Learn about some common faux pas when designing Mongo applications and how to avoid them, on this edition of How Not To Code.

Girl Develop It Meetup – PHP/MySQL
Hive at 55, 55 Broad Street at 7pm

Students will learn how to create a MySQL database, develop PHP code to interact with their database, integrate multiple content types, including images, and integrate all of this into a webpage.

Wednesday

Essentials of Startup Tax and Accounting
General Assembly, 902 Broadway at 6pm

Discussions will focus on the importance of your first tax return and first elections; state and local “nexus” issues and indirect tax matters; and getting accounting and tax policies that protect the founders and the business.

Einar Sneve Martinussen, “Immaterials: Light painting WiFi”
General Assembly, 902 Broadway at 6pm

Einar will talk about designing tools and techniques for visualising wireless networks, and discuss the material qualities of the networked city.

What to Ask Yourself Before Launching
Dogpatch Labs, 36 East 12th St at 7pm

The class will be taught by Eric Friedman, Director of Business Development at Foursquare.

Using Design and Insight to Build New Ventures
General Assembly, 902 Broadway at 8pm

Ryan and Albert from IDEO will work with you to look for and define the appropriate insight for your stage of product development.

Thursday

Music Startup Academy: Strategies, Tactics and Operations
General Assembly, 902 Broadway at 6pm

This session will focus on music industry content acquisition and business development.

An Evening with PrimeSense – The Future of OpenNI & the Path to Commercialization
APress, Inc, 233 Spring Street at 7pm

Think the Kinect is magical and revolutionary? You can thank PrimeSense, the Israeli company Microsoft licensed the underlying hardware technology from to revolutionize gaming. Come meet the people behind the company behind the enabling technology of the fastest selling consumer electronic ever!

Startup Sneak Peak
9 Clinton Street at 7pm

Come get a sneak peak at some exciting new NYC startups.

An Introduction to the Lead Generation Ecosystem
General Assembly, 902 Broadway at 8pm

This session will introduce the major players and discuss strategies for building a business leveraging lead generation.

Friday

DUMBO Tech Breakfast Meetup
Choice Market, 108 Jay Street, Brooklyn at 8:30am

Grab some food and talk some tech.

Saturday

BarCampNYC6
Microsoft, 1290 Avenue of the Americas at 9am

The event doesn’t cost any money, but there is a price: all attendees must give a demo, a session, or help with one.

TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon
Pier 94 at 1pm

There will be great food, fast wifi and each presenting team will get tickets to the full Disrupt conference.

Sunday

TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon Demos
Pier 94 at 11am

Each team will have 90 seconds to present to judges.

3D for Makerbots
NYC Resistor, 87 3rd Ave, 4th Floor, Brooklyn at 2pm

This 3 hour course will show you how to use applications like Google Sketchup and Blender 3D to make digital models for use with the Makerbot 3D printer.

Top Upcoming NYC Startup Events

May 23-25 – TechCrunch Disrupt NYC
May 23 – Startup Lessons Learned Simulcast
May 23 – Community Building 101
May 24-26 – Blogworld & New Media Expo
May 24 – Brand Camp University
May 25 – Digital Learning Series: Demos and Discussion
May 25 – Tips for Early-Stage Companies Looking to Break Through
May 26 – Flash Developer Happy Hour
May 26 – Social Media Prom NYC
May 26 – NYC Tech Drinkup
June 2 – I’m a Big Kid Now: From Startup to Business
June 4 – Mobile Gaming Summit (use code SDIGEST for 40% off)
June 6 – The Conversational Marketing Summit
June 9-12 – Flash and the City 2011
June 13 – ReadWriteWeb 2Way Summit
June 16 – Silicon Alley Talent Fair