Good mornin’ Startups, Lots of great events this week. Hope to see you out there!- Brad & Yuriy
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Brad Oyler – Founder, W3Portals
Yuriy Porytko – Principal, Adapt Technical Group
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What’s Going on in the Philadelphia Startup Community
Business Development and Entrepreneurship Center – Accounting Fundamentals
When: Mon Dec 12, 8:30am
Where: 2000 Pennington Avenue Ewing, NJ 08628
This course is 15 hours spread over 2 days. For both days, we will meet from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, with an hour-long break. The dates are Monday, December 12, and Tuesday, December 13.
This workshop covers industry-accepted standards for responsible financial management, reporting, and monitoring for nonprofit agencies. Participants will learn what financial statements should be generated and how often, and what is required for a clean audit.
iPhone Development 101 course.
Jim Datin, EVP and Managing Director, Deal Teams, Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE)Over the course of his 25+ year career, Jim has been a successful CEO, raised capital for entrepreneurs to grow companies, and turned around troubled companies throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
The Philadelphia Python Users Group (PhillyPUG) Ho ho ho! As promised, PhillyPUG’s December 2011 Meetup will be a holiday social. We will be meeting at National Mechanics.
Based on a joint research project conducted by Chief Learning Officer Magazine and Dale Carnegie Training to explore best practices for leadership and development strategies, it was found that organizations of all sizes have similar long term priorities: building leadership capability, engaging employees and training high performers to drive innovation.
Calling All Entrepreneurs: Learn how to leverage the resources of the Urban League of Philadelphia to get new customers,finance your business, build strategic alliances and improve your overall market presence.
Like to discuss a challenge facing a current startup or an idea for launching a new venture? Considering incorporating your startup but uncertain about what type of entity will provide the greatest protection and least administrative burden?
Join your fellow geeks at our December Happy Hour, happening December 15th at Barcade! This is a co-ed event, so bring some boys and challenge them to a game of Double Dragon. Gather up those quarters you’ve been saving for laundry (or have some dollars for the change machine).
Philly Tech Meetup Join us for a good ol’ fashioned holiday happy hour in Northern Liberties. Last event of 2011, so do not miss. More the merrier.
3rd Monthly DE Tech Meetup. Speaker spots are open. Please send a message or email to dave[at]davekoston.com.
Fairbridge Partners invites you to a pizza and networking lunch for the Delaware’s startup community. Come see our new offices and meet, talk and eat with fellow entrepreneurs, investors and advisors. Now located on the 18th floor, “Angel Alley” still has a few spaces available so come out for the pizza and stay for the community.
Discussion of games, gaming, design. Topics: Unity Game Development, Game Art, Recent Game News.
Fellow GGD PHL member and lady geek, Dawn Fallik, is organizing the first ever Girl Geek Dinner Winter Holiday Cookie Swap! Oh, and a Zombie Santa is involved? Yes, please!
Top Upcoming Startup Events
Dec 20 – Make a Simple iPhone App
Dec 21 – Build Guild Philly