Boulder StartupDigest – October 17, 2011

17/10/2011

Below is an archived version of the Boulder StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Boulder. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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For newcomers: The Boulder StartupDigest is an event list, created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, that is laser-focused on the needs of startups in the Boulder area.
 
Boulder StartupDigest is curated by:
Tom Markiewicz – Founder & CEO, StatsMix 

 

Boulder StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
One day left for U.S. college graduates with innovative business ideas to apply to the Kauffman Foundation’s Global Scholars Program, newly expanded to include U.S. scholars. You’ll learn and network with an international group of aspiring entrepreneurs from January through June 2012. Apply here by Oct. 17, 2011.

 

 

What’s Going on in the Boulder Startup Community

Boulder Community Manager Meetup
When:  Wed 10-19-11 7pm – 8:30pm
Where:  RightNow Technologies, 1300 Walnut Street, Suite 200, Boulder, CO

Meetup of local community managers.

 

Boulder/Denver BigData Meetup
When:  Wed 10-19-11 7pm
Where:  Return Path, 8001 Arista Place, Broomfield, CO

Discussion of MapR, Solbase, and Mahout.

 

New Tech Denver
When:  Thurs 10-20-11 7pm
Where:  MapQuest, 1555 Blake St, 3rd Floor, Denver, CO

Companies demo and field questions from the local tech community.

 

Productive Collisions: The Crowd, the Cloud, and the Future of Work
When:  Fri 10-21-11 12pm – 1:30pm
Where:  Highland City Club, 885 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO

Panel discussion on crowdsourcing and the cloud.

 

PivotGuild Launch Party & Open House
When:  Fri 10-21-11 5pm – 8pm
Where:  BDA Arapahoe Studio, 1600 Range Street, Suite 100, Boulder, CO

Launch party for Boulder Digital Arts’ new sister organization, PivotGuild. Meet other entrepreneurs, PivotGuild instructors, and learn about upcoming events.

 

Inventor Boot Camp 2011
When:  Sat 10-22-11 8:30am – 10:30am
Where:  The Vault, 511 E South Boulder Road, Louisville, CO

Learn how to leverage your time/resources, eliminate unnecessary work, and direct energies toward driving your product forward.

 

 

Top Upcoming Events

October 24, 2011 – Tech Cocktail
October 25, 2011 – House of Genius
October 29, 2011 – Rocky Mountain ProductCamp
November 8, 2011 – API Hack Day
November 9-11, 2011 – Defrag 2011
November 11, 2011 – StartupWeekend Denver

 

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Vienna Startup Digest – October 3, 2011

4/10/2011

Below is an archived version of the Vienna StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Vienna. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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Hello fellow Vienna startups and entrepreneurs!
Happy October! We’re about to tackle our first week of what will be an exciting month of internet/tech startup-related meetups, events and conferences here in Vienna.Note: Community = Free, open event. Commercial = Registration costs applyAs always, you can spread the word about the Vienna StartupDigest by tweeting about it and if you’d like to submit an upcoming event in Vienna, send all of the necessary information to mike@startupdigest.com!

The Vienna StartupDigest is curated by:
Mike Borras - Co-Founder, Tupalo.com

 

What’s Going on in the Vienna Startup Community

StartupWeek (Commercial)

When: October 3 – October 7

Where: Various locations

The mega-startup contest and conference all rolled into one, with investors, startups, entrepreneurs, bloggers and press from all around the World talking about all things startup-related.

 

Marketing and Sales 2.0 (Commercial)

When: Tuesday, October 4 – 09:00

Where: Vienna Twin Conference, 1100

A gathering of professional online marketers, community managers and sales executives to discuss and learn about rapidly changing online channels to build up and scale customer bases.

 

Dream.tv Launch Party (Community)

When: Tuesday, October 4 – 20:30

Where: sektor5, Siebenbrunnengasse 44, 1050

Launch party for Dream.tv, a new Vienna-based startup. Come by, drink, mingle and learn more about Dream.tv.

 

EuropeanaTech (Commercial)

When: October 4 – October 5

Where: Austrian National Library, 1010

The EuropeanaTech conference will explore the technical challenges of making digital, cultural and scientific information attractive and easily accessible for the public, through open-source publishing and technology.

 

Web Performance User Group Meetup (Community)

When: Thursday, October 6 – 20:00

Where: Metalab, Rathhausstrasse 6, 1010

DevOps meetup to discuss, analyze and share information in relation to web performance, both front and back-end.

 

Pixel Vienna (Commercial)

When: October 7 – October 9

Where: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1010

Pixel Vienna is the 6th annual about computer graphics, technology and animation. See what’s happening in the games industry as startups compete on social gaming platforms while the heavies release the latest and greatest advances in PC, console, handheld and mobile gaming technology.

 

CreateCamp (Community)

When: October 8 – October 9

Where: Museumsquartier Raum D, Museumsplatz 1, 1070

Creators, hackers, entrepreneurs all sitting together in a room with free internet, finger-food and a lot of creativity, coming up with projects to be completed within a weekend. Go forth and create!

 

Top Upcoming Vienna Startup Events
October 10 – Startup Show & Tell (Community)
October 10-12 - IFRA Expo 2011 (Commercial)
October 14-15 - Buckminster Fuller World Game Lab (Community)
October 19 - twenty.twenty: The City – Networking with Things (Community)October 20 – Vienna Startup Mixer (Community)
October 21-23 - FROG 2011 (Commercial)
October 22 - Agile Tour 2011 (Commercial)
October 22-24 - Game City 2011 (Free entry – Community/Commercial)
October 29 - SciCamp (Community)

 

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Boulder StartupDigest – August 29, 2011

29/08/2011

Below is an archived version of the Boulder StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Boulder. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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The two big events this week are Ignite Boulder and the Rocky Mountain Ruby conference (now in its second year).
Boulder StartupDigest is curated by:
Tom Markiewicz – Founder & CEO, StatsMix

 

Boulder StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
Kauffman’s website Entrepreneurship.org is a free online site chock full of content and resources for entrepreneurs, business mentors, investors and anyone in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Content ranges from information entrepreneurs need to launch a company to policies and research that has been conducted regarding entrepreneurship. Check it out at www.entrepreneurship.org.

 

What’s Going on in the Boulder Startup Community

Open Coffee Boulder
When: Tues 8/30/11 8-9:30am
Where: Atlas Purveyors, Boulder, CO

Open and informal meetup for entrepreneurs, startups, and investors.

Rocky Mountain Ruby Hackfest
When: Wed 8-31-11 7pm
Where: Quick Left, 1919 14th St. # 714 Boulder, CO

Meetup of local community managers.

jQuery Mobile
When: Wed 8/31, 6:30-8:30pm
Where: Denver Open Media, 700 Kalamath St, Denver, CO

Presentation on jQuery Mobile – what it is and how to use it.

Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference
When: Wed 8/31 – Friday 9/2
Where: Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO

Rocky Mountain Ruby is a single track conference devoted to the Ruby programming language featuring technical presentations, community events and outdoor experiences.

Ignite Boulder 16
When: Thurs 9-1-11 7-9pm
Where: Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO

Ignite Boulder is a night of presentations with a twist. Presenting on a subject of their choice, speakers have exactly 5 minutes to teach something, enlighten us, or simply inspire — backed by 20 slides auto-advancing every 15 seconds.

 

Top Upcoming Events

September 12 – Entrepreneurs Unplugged: Brad Feld
September 15 - BoulderBeta
September 11-14 - 360|iDev 2011 – Denver
September 14 – TEDxBoulder
October 7-8 – PodCamp Denver 2
October 29 – Rocky Mountain ProductCamp
November 11 – API Hack Day
November 9-11 – Defrag 2011

 

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Boulder StartupDigest – August 22, 2011

22/08/2011

Below is an archived version of the Boulder StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Boulder. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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For newcomers: Boulder StartupDigest is a curated events list created by entrepreneurs that is focused on the needs and interests of startups in Boulder.

Boulder StartupDigest is curated by:
Tom Markiewicz – Founder & CEO, StatsMix 

Boulder StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
Kauffman’s website Entrepreneurship.org is a free online site chock full of content and resources for entrepreneurs, business mentors, investors and anyone in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Content ranges from information entrepreneurs need to launch a company to policies and research that has been conducted regarding entrepreneurship. Check it out at www.entrepreneurship.org

What’s Going on in the Boulder Startup Community 

Startup Women

When: August 23, 12pm – 1pm

Where: Boulder Digital Arts, Boulder, CO

Women entrepreneurs gather to support and share business/tech/community solutions.

Boulder Community Manager Meetup

When: August 24, 7-8:30pm

Where: RightNow Technologies, 1300 Walnut Street, Suite 200, Boulder, CO

Meetup of local community managers.

Marketing 101 to Create a Sustainable Business

When: August 25, 4pm – 6pm

Where: EKS&H, 4th Floor, 7979 East Tufts Avenue #400, Denver, CO

Phil Nugent and Martha Cusick Eddy will provide a roadmap to develop your own marketing plan so that you can begin to strategically position your business for outside investment.

Tech Throwdown

When: August 25, 5:30pm – 8:30pm

Where: BDA Arapahoe Studio, 1600 Range Street, Suite 100, Boulder, CO

Rather than bashing rival technologies, come learn and participate in the Tech Throwdown panel discussion comparing Ruby on Rails vs the .NET MVC Framework.

House of Genius

When: August 25, 6:35PM – 9:19PM

Where: Fluid Coffee Bar, 501 E 19th Ave, Denver, 80203

House of Genius assembles diverse minds to disrupt normal thinking patterns and ignite new ideas. With no introductions or preconceived notions, professionals engage in an open, intense dialogue and debate to spawn truly innovative views and solutions.

Top Upcoming Events

August 31 to September 2 - Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference

September 1 - Ignite Boulder

September 11 to 14 - 360|iDev 2011 – Denver

October 29 – Rocky Mountain ProductCamp

November 9 - Defrag 2011

 

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Boston StartupDigest – July 18, 2011

18/07/2011

Below is an archived version of the Boston StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Boston. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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Good morning, Boston startups!

Evangelists, investors and the Boston Boogie. It’s just another week of startup events here in Boston.

Best,
Marc & Bob

Boston StartupDigest is curated by:
Marc Zawel – Co-Founder, EqualApp
Bob Cavezza – Co-Founder, EasyUnsubscriber

 

 

 

What’s Going on in the Boston Startup Community

Evangelists: The New Approach To Marketing
When: Tuesday, July 19 6 pm – 8 pm
Where: Ned Devin’s Irish Pub, Quincy Market, 1 Faneuil Hall Market Place, Boston

Enthusiasts. Ambassadors. Community Managers. Evangelists. Why hiring one is profitable.

How to Attract Investors
When: Wednesday, July 20 10 am – 11 am
Where: Cambridge Innovation Center One Broadway, Asuncion Conference Room, 3rd floor, Cambridge

Hear from Brad Harkavy, President of Harkador Partners and Charles Huang, Associate of Spark Capital.

Boston Boogie
When: Thursday, July 21 9 pm
Where: Saint, 90 Exeter, Boston

Planking is so last year. Get down with your Boston Boogie.

 

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