Shanghai StartupDigest – December 12, 2011

13/12/2011

Below is an archived version of the Shanghai StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Shanghai.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

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Dear Shanghai StartupDigest Readers,

It’s been freezing in Shanghai for the past couple days, but the forecast says it will get warmer next week. While many of you are packing to go home for X’mas, the startup community remains active and is ready to wrap up for year 2011. I will be in Hangzhou next week for the Startup Weekend Hangzhou Chapter and will visit some cool startups in the city. Then I will go to Beijing to attend the Mobile 2.0 Annual event on December 20th. Many well known investors including Zhou Hongyi from Qihu 360 will be there as well.

Btw, did you see the Total Lunar Eclipse on Saturday night? Surprisingly clear sky, isn’t it? If you missed it, here’s a link for you to make it up.

If you’d like to share any exciting news or events with us, please send an email to me [at] bob.zheng@thestartupdigest.com or Calvin [at] calvin@thestartupdigest.com.

Cheers,

Bob & Calvin

Shanghai StartupDigest is curated by:
Bob Zheng - Founder of People Squared
Calvin Chin

 

Top Upcoming Shanghai Startup Events

December 24 – LBS Vision Shanghai

December 25 – Node[Christmas]Party-Shanghai

January 7 – PM-China Internet Product and Investment

January 11 – The 2nd Inno-Luxury Summit 2012

 

 

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Ottawa StartupDigest – December 12, 2011

13/12/2011

Below is an archived version of the Ottawa StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Ottawa.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

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Good morning fellow Ottawa entrepreneurs, As expected, we are going to have a slow December. Leaves you with plenty of time to work on your deadlines, to attend to the holiday rush or just to simply get prepared to have a great Christmas. As always, if you organize a relevant event, be sure to email us and we’ll highlight it on our next event listing.Vahid & Rob

Ottawa StartupDigest is curated by:
Rob Woodbridge – Founder, Untethered Mobile
Vahid Jozi – CEO of Igloosity

 

 

What’s Going on in the Ottawa Startup Community

Agile Ottawa Meetup Group – PechaKucha – lightning presentations
Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 6:00
Momentous26 Auriga Drive, Ottawa, ON

This month Agile Ottawa is hosting Lightning Talks. These are 5-minute talks. Topics are all around “agile” — but expect some to drift into many related topics around teams and teamwork, collaboration, values, and principles. Of course some of the lightning talks will be covering the core agile topics, but surely with a twist and a great story (there are many stories and many great story tellers that have been attending!).

 

 

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LA StartupDigest – December 12, 2011

12/12/2011

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

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Beachers, Good crop of events this week that should serve to pull you out of your mom’s basement and meet like-minded startup folks getting their grind on, in one way or another. Choose wisely, then get back to work.

As always, I’d love to hear your feedback. Feel free to ping me at @galica or mgalica@thestartupdigest.com.

LA StartupDigest is curated by:
Matthias Galica - Founder/CEO, ShareSquare

 

 

LA StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
Check out these sketchbook videos on “finding the magic sauce of entrepreneurship” and “three things entrepreneurs do” and more from the Kauffman Foundation.

 

 

What’s Going on in the LA Startup Community

A Holiday Soiree
When: Thursday, December 15 at 8pm
Where: 31TenLounge, Santa Monica

The good ladies at Three Day Rule are putting this one together, partially to help nerds mate, a noble endeavor.

 

Coloft After Dark: Startup Nights
When: Friday, December 16 at 7pm
Where: Coloft

Get your Friday night hack on with a whole mess of startup peoples.

 

Teens in Tech
When: Saturday, December 17 at 9am
Where: Microsoft LA, DTLA

Use the code digest2011 to get 50 percent off and then be enviously impressed by a bunch of kids that got their act together way faster than you did.

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Lexington StartupDigest – December 12, 2011

12/12/2011

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

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The hotlist: Lexington Startups and emerging companies (contact me to add your startup).

Lexington StartupDigest is curated by:
Sean O’Leary – Director of Venture Finance, KSTC

 

 

Lexington StartupDigest is made possible exclusively by:
Check out these sketchbook videos on “finding the magic sauce of entrepreneurship” and “three things entrepreneurs do” and more from the Kauffman Foundation.

 

 

What’s Going on in the Lexington Community

Louisville Transportation Camp
When: Monday, December 12th, 5-8pm
Where: Autodemo, 1129 Payne St., Louisville, 40204

Description: Let’s use TARC’s transit feed, PARC’s open data, Louisville’s Open Data Initiative, and the Your Mapper API to brainstorm and prototype some cool local apps.

 

 

Top Upcoming Events

December 19 – Mobile Developers Meetup

 

 

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Hungary StartupDigest – December 12, 2011

12/12/2011

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

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This week: the Hungarian startup ecosystem tries to expand beyond Budapest. Also, after a panel discussion, successful startups go and fight on the race track and in the arena!

Hungary StartupDigest is curated by:
Gerely Bor - unorthodox Hungarian startupper, who’s into tech, PM, innovation and UX

 

 

What’s Going on in the Hungary Startup Community

Will Debrecen join the startup ecosystem?
When: December 12th, 6pm-8pm (CET)
Where: Kassai út 26., Debrecen (the new building of Faculty of Informatics at University of Debrecen, Lecture Hall F0)

Even though stock.xchng originates from Debrecen, and the owners got about 5M USD in stock when selling it, apparently most techies in Debrecen don’t know much about startups yet. This is
going to change! Breaking: Peter Hamza, founder of stock.xchng will also be there, answering questions.

 

HiTech Pub 8.0
When: December 15th, 7:00pm (CET)
Where: Anna utca 4., 1221 Budapest (Gokart Aréna, Budafok)

A startup event with panel discussion featuring startups with international success (EasyLing, MixGar, PocketGuide), and to finish the year with blowing off steam, some gokart racing and laserfight!

 

 

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Guadalajara StartupDigest – December 12, 2011

12/12/2011

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

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This week we have a talk about two very interesting programming languages. The Startup Digest Gdl is a curated list of interesting events for tech entrepreneurs in Guadalajara. Make sure you send your entrepreneur events to Rubén or Ruy, you can help this list grow more interesting!Guadalajara StartupDigest is curated by:
Rubén Medellín – Web Developer at Freshout
Ruy Cervantes - Working on a Ph.D. on Informatics

 

 

What’s Going on in the Guadalajara Startup Community

Why Javascript is not Java (Free)
When: December 14th, 7pm
Where: Tacit Knowledge Offices, Agustín Yáñez 2895, Piso 7, Guadalajara

The Java community prepares an interesting talk that explores the language by comparing it with another programming language, Javascript. This will be an interesting talk, presenting the best (and worst) of both languages.

 

Top Upcoming Events

Drupal Summit - 19-21 of January 2012

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Boston StartupDigest – December 12, 2011

12/12/2011

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 startups, This week, stop by Gemvara’s headquarters and learn about startup employee compensation — or to dominate some flip cup.Have a great week.

Enjoy,
Marc & Bob

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

 

 

Boston StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
Check out these sketchbook videos on “finding the magic sauce of entrepreneurship” and “three things entrepreneurs do” and more from the Kauffman Foundation.

 

 

What’s Going on in the Boston Startup Community

Negotiating Startup Employee Salary and Compensation
When: Monday, Dec 12 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Where: Gemvara, 1 Financial Center, 8th Floor, Boston

Jennifer Lum, Dave Balter and Dave Cappillo deliver startup compensation packages 101.

 

DartBoston Flip Cup Tourney
When: Wednesday, Dec 14 7 pm
Where: Gemvara, 1 Financial Center, 8th Floor, Boston

Head back to Gemvara for some flippy — apparently, the team from IdeaPaint has issued a formal challenge.

 

 

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Shanghai StartupDigest – December 5, 2011

6/12/2011

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

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Dear Shanghai StartupDigest Readers, My apology for holding a backlog of replying to some of your emails for the past week and I promise to get back to you the first thing in the morning.

Thanks to all of your support, we just had a great one year anniversary for People Squared with our partner Tech2IPO Startup Engine at our new Demo Center. We had more than 250 attendees join us for our celebration today and 8 teams, including 2 teams from Startup Weekend, 1 team from ChinaStars, made their project demos in front of our investors and audience. During the event, People Squared announced its new Demo Center. The starups in Shanghai will have a new place for hosting their great events. In the next few months, the Demo Center will bring you 5 exciting events for its test run. If your event is non-commercial, tech/startup related and completely free to the participants, talk to us and we may be able to help you on setting up your event for the community.

If you’d like to share any exciting news or events with us, please send an email to me [at] bob.zheng@thestartupdigest.com or Calvin [at] calvin@thestartupdigest.com.

Cheers,
Bob & Calvin

Shanghai StartupDigest is curated by:
Bob Zheng - Founder of People Squared
Calvin Chin

 

 

Highlighted Shanghai Startup Events (Mixed English/Chinese)

Sat. Dec. 10 Shanghai Talents, Expats, Returnees Gathering
When: 12/10/2011 19:30
Where: Club house, Huaihai Middle Road, Huang Pu District, Details sent to email registered attendees

Shanghai Legend talent, expat and returnee social networking event will be held on Saturday December 10. Thank you for about 110 friends joining Shanghai Legend human resources monthly event and returnee gathering on November 26.

 

 

Top Upcoming Shanghai Startup Events

December 16 – Startup Weekend, Hangzhou
December 25 – Node[Christmas]Party-Shanghai

 

 

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Portland StartupDigest -December 5, 2011

6/12/2011

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

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Good Morning, Portland! Hope you had a great weekend. Only a few short weekends before 2011 comes to a close. But before we bid farewell to the year, there are a few events on the horizon that you should not miss.
If you have a recurring startup-related event you would like to see featured here on the Portland StartupDigest, please send me an email at erik@thestartupdigest.com.-Erik

Portland StartupDigest is curated by:
Erik Howard – Founder, ServerHive

 

 

Portland StartupDigest is made possible exclusively by:
How do new businesses get ahead in the “Money Game”? Navigating the growing startup financing landscape is the focus of the latest animated video from the Kauffman Foundation’s sketchbook series. Watch “Money Game,” where Kauffman Senior Fellow Paul Kedrosky breaks down the methods entrepreneurs use to raise capital, and the benefits—and hazards—of each.

 

 

What’s Going on in the Portland Startup Community

TiE Oregon PitchFest with the Portland Seed Fund
When: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 from 6–8:30pm
Where: TiE Westside Incubator, 19075 NW Tanasbourne Dr, Suite 150, Hillsboro, Oregon 97124

Make use of this one-time opportunity to pitch your idea to the Portland Seed Fund when they drop by TiE Oregon PitchFest and Member Mixer.

 

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Austin StartupDigest – December 5, 2011

5/12/2011

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

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Check out the RISE Austin Kickoff Event on Tuesday night to meet up with other entrepreneurs and hear what’s in store during RISE Austin Week this coming March.Mark your calendar if you haven’t already for the Web Community Holiday Bash on the 13th. Many of the web and tech meetups in town are banding together for one epic party. You don’t want to miss it! Did you know that Austin is one of the fastest growing StartupDigest communities? The digest gets better as more members of our community begin participating. Please help spread the word by sending out a tweet today telling your friends to sign up for the Austin StartupDigest here.

Austin StartupDigest is curated by:
Joshua Baer – Founder of Otherinbox and Managing Director of the Capital Factory
Damon Clinkscales – Software Engineer at VitalSource

 

 

Austin StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
How do new businesses get ahead in the “Money Game”? Navigating the growing startup financing landscape is the focus of the latest animated video from the Kauffman Foundation’s sketchbook series. Watch “Money Game,” where Kauffman Senior Fellow Paul Kedrosky breaks down the methods entrepreneurs use to raise capital, and the benefits—and hazards—of each.

 

 

What’s Going on in the Austin Startup Community

1SS Speed Dating – Student Team Matching
When: 12/5/11,6-8pm
Where: University of Texas, SZB 296Know any entrepreneurial UT students? Please forward them this email and encourage them to attend the 1SS Spring 2012 team speed dating event this week.

Connect with potential teammates to apply for 1 Semester Startup Spring 2012 Semester. The meeting format will depend on how many people show up, but everyone should get a chance to introduce themselves and meet the other teams.

 

RISE Week 2012: Kick Off & Connect Event
When: 12/6/11,6-9pm
Where: Molotov, West Sixth Street

RISE, A Relationship and Information Series for Entrepreneurs, is by, for and about entrepreneurs of all stages.

Whether you are a business owner, thought leader, student or professional seeking a community of entrepreneurially driven individuals — join us as we celebrate RISE Week 2012! Come meet or reconnect with peers and fellow RISE participants, while learning what resources, programming and events we have in store for March 26th-30th, 2012.

 

 

Top Upcoming Events

12/13/2011 – Web Community Holiday Bash

 

 

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