Below is an archived version of the Cape Town StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Cape Town.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

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Cape Town StartupDigest is curated by:
Eric Edelstein - Co-Founder & CEO, evly.com

What’s Going on in the Cape Town Startup Community This Week

My good friend, Dave Duarte, UCT lecturer, and head of Ogilvy’s Digital Marketing Academy, is the guest speaker at the last Heavy Chef event of the year. He’s a fantastic speaker, (he’s been involved in Toastmasters a lot longer than I have), so try not to miss this one.

A weekly event held by Silicon Cape to get Capetonians meeting one another and speaking about tech.

Top Upcoming Events

Below is an archived version of the Cape Town StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Cape Town.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

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Cape Town StartupDigest is curated by:
Eric Edelstein - Co-Founder & CEO, evly.com
 
 
What’s Going on in the Cape Town Startup Community This Week

Markex Conference (Pre-registration free or R30 at door)
When: Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 10h00 – 17h00 (also Wednesday & Thursday)
Where: International Convention Centre

A trade exhibition focussing on marketing, promotions, and special events. Take a look at the line up of speakers – they look impressive.

27 Dinner (Not sure – around R100 to R150)
When: Saturday, 27 August, 2011 at 18h00
Where: Wild Fig

It’s time for the bi-monthly 27 Dinner in Cape Town. 54 people have already signed up, and there’s still a week to go, so it looks like it will be a very full house next Saturday. Christine Bombai, the Digital Marketing Manager at Old Mutual, is one of the 2 speakers for the evening (the 2nd one is still to be announced).

Top Upcoming Cape Town Startup Events

August 30 – Potter Talks

Below is an archived version of the Dallas StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Dallas.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

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Get out there, have fun, and make a difference.

-Chris Bond

Dallas StartupDigest is curated by:
Chris Bond - Co-founder RentSavvy

Dallas StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
Winners of Global Entrepreneurship Week’s Startup Open competition, sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation, could win a trip to Liverpool to hang out with global entrepreneur experts or a year’s worth of mentoring from the founders of Redbox. Learn more about all of the prizes here and submit your startup here.

What’s Going on in the Dallas Startup Community

North Texas TechBrew
When: Thursday, August 18, 3-8pm
Where: Encryptics Offices, 5566 W. Main St. #207 Frisco, TX 75034

The NT TechBrew will feature: NO cost, NO speeches, NO music, NO agenda, and very little sitting around.It will simply provide some refreshments, a cash bar (buy your own), Name Tags, and a room and time for a big bunch of folks interested in technology to stand around and visit. If you’re in the Frisco area, definitely drop by.

MIT Forum: Bootstrapping Marketing for Startups
When: Thursday, August 18, 6-8:30pm
Where: Campbell Center, North Tower, 8350 N. Central Expressway #250, Dallas, TX 75206

Interested in learning how to market your startup on a bootstrapped budget (who isn’t)? Learn about social and traditional digital marketing from three local entrepreneurs. This should be a great forum, and if you’ve ever been to an MIT Enterprise Forum before, you’ll know that they’re content rich. Definitely worth checking out.

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

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Today starts the second round to apply to Start-Up Chile! Also, remember that there are less than 30 days to apply to Founder Institute in Chile.

Chile StartupDigest is curated by:
Carlos Leiva Burotto - currently building the next step of web marketing research

What’s Going on in the Chile Startup Community

Digital Rock Stars
When: July 12, 8:30 am
Where: Casa Piedra — Monseñor Escriva de Balaguer #5600, Santiago

Organized by IAB Chile. This international seminar of Digital Marketing will cover and discuss topics such as Advertising, eCommerce and social CRM. The Speakers include people from Angry Birds (popular game) and Google.

Lambda Day
When: July 12, 7pm
Where: Continuum, Coronel Pereira #72 Of. 903, Santiago

This talks will cover topics of functional programming: Erlang, Haskell, Clojure, F#, Scheme.

Start-Up Chile: Schoooools.com
When: July 13th, 7pm
Where: California Cantina, 2nd floor, Las Urbinas #56, Santiago

Learn more about this product where children, teachers and families can communicate and work with each other, through a fun and friendly user experience.

Spanish Version

Esta semana destacamos a Jasmine Aarons, emprendedora de StartupChile y fundadora de Voz, que será entrevistada por los hermanos Brown de Journey of Action. Ryan y Kassidy están disponibles este 12 y 14 de Julio para conocer a emprendedores sociales. Contáctalos escribiendo a journeyofaction@gmail.com.

Hoy Lunes 11 de Julio comienza la segunda ronda del 2011 para postular al programa StartupChile! También te recordamos que queda menos de un mes para postular al Founder Institute y este Viernes 15 de Julio finalizan las postulaciones para presentar Proyectos de I+D Aplicada.

Chile StartupDigest is curated by:
Carlos Leiva Burotto - currently building the next step of web marketing research

Eventos Esta Semana

Start-Up Chile: Schoooools.com

Cuándo: 13 de Julio, 7pm
Dónde: California Cantina, 2º piso, Las Urbinas #56, Santiago

Aprende más sobre esta aplicación web que permite a los niños, profesores y familias comunicarse y trabajar eficientemente de forma conjunta, mediante un sistema amigable para todos.

Hello Readers!

This week’s edition is focused on creating the ecosystem the region needs in order to compete effectively:

- Sawari Ventures selects four tech startups to head to the US to meet venture capitalists and potential partners
- N2V announces its first Facebook contest “Unleash Your Creativity”
- Active PR launches social media competition aimed at startups within MENA region

Middle East StartupDigest is curated by:
Muhammad M. Mansour

What’s Going on in the Middle East Startup Community

Social Mediarator
When: 30 June
Where: Cairo, Egypt

Top Upcoming Middle East Startup Events

TBD: S3Geeks – Upper Egypt

Egyptians’ expectations for their future after the revolution show a new level of optimism. Two Startups accelerators programs to launch this month.

Tahrir² is is all about doubling the energy of the youth and getting their ideas to the second step.. We try to lower the risk on entrepreneurs while offering an environment for them to interact with each others and get tutored by top notch mentors, and yah.. we keep it fun while they build their Empire.

Flat6Labs is an investment vehicle launched by Sawari Ventures, in cooperation with the American University in Cairo, that combines conceptual remnants of both business incubators and entrepreneurship labs.

Middle East StartupDigest is curated by:
Muhammad M. Mansour

What’s Going on in the Middle East Startup Community

Top Upcoming Middle East Startup Events

TBD: TEDxAleppo – Aleppo
TBD: Geekfest – Cairo

It’s been a long time since you’ve heard from me. I am alive, continuing to work and creating the eco-system for entrepreneurs to upstart their startups. Last month was decent with all of the events I had scheduled. Thank you for your continued support.

Now, as for the graduates of Startup Weekend Cairo. I’m considering hosting a follow-up event soon to help track progress.

I live in Cairo and have been asked to organize another fabulous Startup Weekend event but this time in Dubai. WDYT? Take a look at our poll and cast your vote! :)

Have a great early summer and I hope to see many of you at these upcoming events.

Middle East StartupDigest is curated by:
Muhammad M. Mansour

What’s Going on in the Middle East Startup Community

IQPC Click 5.0 – The Digital Marketing Event for the Middle East
When: 26-29 June
Where: Dubai, UAE

Top Upcoming Middle East Startup Events

I hope everyone is recovering from Boulder Startup Week! The highlight of this week is Gluecon. If you’re involved with anything related to APIs, cloud computing, web protocols/formats, and data in general (or want to learn), you need to be there.

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

Boulder StartupDigest is made possible exclusively by:
The Kauffman Foundation supports entrepreneurship and innovation so that economies grow and prosper and ultimately human welfare expands. Kauffman develops, operates and funds programs such as Startup Weekend, Kauffman Labs, and Global Entrepreneurship Week. Follow the Foundation on Twitter @KauffmanFDN

What’s Going on in the Boulder Startup Community

Lean Startup Meetup
When: Monday, May 23, 9:30 am – 11:30 am

Return Path is hosting a local simulcast of the Startup Lessons Learned Conference which is taking place in San Francisco.

Startup Junkie Underground: Pivoting Your Way to Success
When: Mon, May 23, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Where: The Vault, 511 E South Boulder Road, Louisville, CO

Phil Anson of EVOL Burritos dicusses their business pivot.

Open Coffee Boulder
When: Tue, May 24, 8:00am – 9:30am
Where: Atlas Purveyors, Boulder, CO

Open and informal meetup for entrepreneurs, startups and investors.

Metzger Associates Office Hours
When: Tues, 5/24, 3pm – 6pm
Where: BDA Arapahoe Studio, 1600 Range Street, Suite 100, Boulder, CO

Metzger Associates’ Amy Little, a digital marketing specialist in content strategy and search engine optimization, will hold open office hours. Local businesses seeking strategic marketing and communications advice are welcome.

House of Genius
When: Tuesday 5-24 6:37PM – 9:24PM
Where: Bing.com, 15th and Walnut, Boulder, CO

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.

Gluecon
When: May 25-26, 2011
Where: Omni Interlocken Resort, Broomfield, CO

Glue is a conference about all the bits and pieces, APIs and meta-data, standards and connectors that will help us glue together the varying applications of a post-cloud world. Glue is the only conference devoted solely to the new problem-set facing architects, developers and integrators.

Introducing Python in an Analytical Environment / Python for Semantic Web
When: Wed, May 25, 6pm – 8pm
Where: Inspiringapps, 1045 Pearl Street, Boulder, CO

Josh Hemann will present on Python in an Analytical Environment while Oz DiGennaro then discusses Python for the Semantic Web.

Hacks/Hackers Colorado
When: Wed, May 25, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Where: Atlas Building (Main Lobby), University Colorado, Boulder, CO

A meetup of journalists and developers, the theme of this event is “Demo Day” where some of the innovative companies in the area will present their products and companies.

Top Upcoming Events

June 2 – StartupWeekend Open House
June 3-5 – StartupWeekend Denver
June 6 – Boulder Startup Marketing
June 7 – New Tech Meetup