Stuttgart StartupDigest – December 12, 2011

13/12/2011

Below is an archived version of the Stuttgart StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Stuttgart.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

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Welcome to the first edition of the brand-new StartupDigest Stuttgart!As you probably know, the startup scene in Stuttgart is fresh and unique but still kind of disconnected. Therefore, our first goal is to reach everybody from the rural area up the hill all the way down to the Kessel. So, please forward this mail and invite like-minded people to join us at http://startupdigest.com. I also highly encourage you to suggest interesting events and send feedback to danielb@thestartupdigest.com. You will find this edition at least every other monday in your inbox!- Daniel

Stuttgart StartupDigest is curated by:
Daniel Bartel - Digital Consultant at Autonetzer

 

 

What’s Going on in the Stuttgart Startup Community

Gründergrillen Stuttgart (aka Startup BBQ) – Winter-Special & Lean-Startup Vorglühen
When: Tuesday, Dec 13 at 6pm
Where: Schankstelle (Superschanke), Jägerstraße 19

The place to be! Meet the world-class of founders in Stuttgart. This time at a new location and with Lean-Startup Vorglühen (Glühwein, of course) and a special guest giving some insides on how to go lean!

 

PHP User Group Stuttgart
When: Wednesday, Dec 14 at 7pm
Where: Coworking0711, Heilbronner Str. 7

Let’s code! The PHP User Group Stuttgart meets up regularly to talk about PHP and other web technologies.

 

Gründergrillen Karsruhe
When: Thursday, Dec 15 at 8pm
Where: heimspiel. Lärchenallee 3, 76131 Karlsruhe

Okay, Stuttgart got inspired by the Startup BBQ in Karlsruhe, so we want to mention this great event as well. Grab a beer and talk to other founders in this area. You are also invited to pitch your startup.

 

Top Upcoming Stuttgart Startup Events

January 13 – 1 year weXelwirken Haerten
January 20 – Socialbar Stuttgart
January 30 – Webmontag Stuttgart
February 1 – Social Media Night Stuttgart

 

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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Below is an archived version of the Ottawa StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Ottawa.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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Indonesia StartupDigest – December 5, 2011

6/12/2011

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

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For newcomers: Indonesia StartupDigest is a curated events list created by entrepreneurs that is focused on the needs and interests of startups in Jakarta. Do drop me a note at rama@thestartupdigest.com if you have any feedback, questions, or ideas.

Indonesia StartupDigest is curated by:
Rama Mamuaya

 

 

What’s Going on in the Indonesia Startup Community

Jakarta StartupLokal Meetup + e27 Founders Drinks
Time : December 8, 2011 (Thursday). 6:30pm – 9:30pm (+07:00, Jakarta Time)
Place : @america, Pacific place Mall 3rd Flood #325, Jl. Jendral Sudirman Kav. 52-53, Kebayoran Baru, Central Jakarta, 12190

Join us for the panel discussion on the topic, light refreshments and a networking session with e27 Co-founder and Director, Mohan, Media & Events Manager, Gabriel, the Amazon Web Services Team, and also StartupLokal.

 

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Beijing StartupDigest – December 5, 2011

5/12/2011

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

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Hello everyone! A new Hackcelerator based in Shenzhen and the Bay Area — From the folks who brought you Chinaccelerator comes a new type of adventure. They are taking applications now for this next class, which will last 111 days and will focus on accelerating hardware-based startups. One of my co-founders in www.dragonmoss.comis a mentor as well as many of the ones from Chinaccelerator.Regards,
Frank and David

@frankyu @davidatsg on Twitter
@frankyu01 @davidatsg on Weibo
The Beijing StartupDigest archives can be found here.

Some Interesting Articles
-Google’s sad demise in China
-Kaifu and the China fantasy
-Internet Rumors are like drugs
-Alibaba testing out its own G+
-How Sina Weibo cracked Social Gaming

Beijing StartupDigest is curated by:
Frank Yu – Founder of Kwestr
David Ding – Founder of Bridge for Angels & Startup Entrepreneurs (BASE)

 

 

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Silicon Prairie StartupDigest – November 28, 2011

29/11/2011

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

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First, sorry for the late digest this week. Let my experience serve as a warning: be careful when you eat giblets to make sure they were cooked at a high enough temperature. Second, I am always looking for good events to cover in the digest and good companies to cover for SPN. If you know of either, please email me.This has been on here for a few weeks, and I don’t plan to take it off anytime soon. There is now a link on this map’s description that allows you to submit your company. Let’s get our region charted out. You can see the map here.

Silicon Prairie StartupDigest is curated by:
Willis Jackson – Founder of ShownHome

 

 

Silicon Prairie StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
Check out these sketchbook videos on “finding the magic sauce of entrepreneurship” and “three things entrepreneurs do“ narrated by Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation.

 

 

What’s Going on in the Silicon Prairie Startup Community

How I built it (Cedar Rapids)
Where: Cedar Rapids Marriott
When: November 30, 7:30 am

There will be a panel discussing how to take your great idea and turn it into a business. This sounds like the sort of thing that is perfect for those of you starting out on your entrepreneurial journey.

 

Capital Insights: An Interview with Archrival (Lincoln)
Where: The North Loft at the Apothecary, 140 N. 8th Street, Suite 500
When: November 30, 6 pm

The two founders of Archrival will sit down in a “Charlie Rose” style interview and discuss their story and path from starting the company as juniors attending UNL to representing major brands across the US. This one looks really exciting.

 

TechBrew (Cedar Valley)
Where: Voodoo Lounge, 314 Main Street in Cedar Falls
When: December 1, 5 pm

You know the story.

 

JoCoworking
Where: Black Dog Coffeehouse
When: December 2, 9 am

Welcome to the third installment of JoCoworking. For those of us in the “southern” reaches who want to work together, bounce around ideas, and form tighter bonds in our communities.

 

Barcamp (Des Moines)
Where: Des Moines Central Public Library, 1000 Grand Avenue
When: December 3

Barcamps are awesome. Knowing some of the people involved in organizing BC:DSM, I expect that this one will be no different.

 

 

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Hong Kong StartupDigest – November 21, 2011

21/11/2011

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

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Mikaal Abdulla from 8 Securities, Leon Ho from Stepcase and other participants from HK are going to share their experience at Techcrunch Disrupt Beijing on the 28th and Dec 5th. Please check the StartupsHK Facebook group for the latest event details.Have a nice week!

Hong Kong StartupDigest is curated by:
Vincent Chan – Co-founder of Primitus

 

 

What’s Going on in the Hong Kong Startup Community

Web Wednesday HK – Social Mixer V54.0: “Battle of the Apps II”
Where: Bisous Hong Kong, 9TH FLOOR, LKF TOWER, 33 Wyndham Street, Central
When: Dec 14, 6:30pm-9:30pm

From the organizer: “As a continuation of our popular “Battle of the Apps” contest in June 2011, we are once again inviting app publishers and developers to participate in a pre-Christmas contest, held in the heart of Hong Kong’s party area, Lan Kwai Fong. Each contestant will have 8 minutes to show off their creation and will be peppered with questions from the host, Napoleon Biggs.”

 

 

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Silicon Valley StartupDigest – November 14, 2011

15/11/2011

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

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An awesome mix of events this week including “Women Who Code” coming down to Silicon Valley for a hack night. Enjoy :)- Chris
 
Silicon Valley StartupDigest is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest
Santiago Zavala – Partner, Mexican.vc
 
 
Silicon Valley StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
Global Entrepreneurship Week kicks off today. Be among the millions of people in 123 countries celebrating, networking and learning about entrepreneurship. Find an event near you or plan your own. Visit gewusa.org for U.S. info. or unleashingideas.org for all other countries.

 
 

What’s Going On in the Silicon Valley Startup Community

 

SecondMondays (Free)
Monday, November 14 @ 5:30pm | San Francisco
SecondMarket is hosting a Monday Night Football session. If you’re into football, this will be a cool way to meet other entrepreneurs.
 
Women Who Code: Hack Night (Free)

Monday, November 14 @ 6pm | Mountain View

Bring a laptop, charger, and something you want to build or learn.

 

Silicon Valley Founder Night Out with Founders Institute (Free)

Monday, November 14 @ 8pm | Palo Alto

Hang out with some Founder Institute graduates and learn more about their program.

 

Organized Crime vs. Agile Startups ($40)

Tuesday, November 15 @ 6pm | Stanford

Cyber crime costs corporations and individuals more than $1 trillion annually. Come learn more about this market.

 

Percona Toolkit (Free)

Tuesday, November 15 @ 6:30pm | San Francisco

Check out a talk about the new percona toolkit, how to migrate to it and generally learn more about percona.

 

Continuous Deployment at Mozilla (Free)

Tuesday, November 15 @ 6:30pm | Stanford

Come and learn how the continuous deployment process came into existence at Mozilla.

 

Know Your Engines: How to Make Your JavaScript Fast (Free)

Tuesday, November 15 @ 6:30pm | Mountain View

Learn how to make your JavaScript run as fast as possible! Understand more about the way that the system compiles, optimizes and runs your code.

 

Solid State Startups (Free)

Tuesday, November 15 @ 7pm

Come and meet some other hackers who love building stuff in the real world.

 

Bootstrapping Your Startup (Free)

Wednesday, November 16 @ 7pm | Berkeley

A session about bootstrapping with the Persian Tech Entrepreneurs group and Startup @ Berkeley.

 

Cal Entrepreneurship Expo (Free)

Thursday, November 17 @ 6:30pm | Berkeley

Steve Blank will be the keynote speaker.

 

StartupOnomics: Design that drives Action (Free)

Thursday, November 17 @ 7pm | San Francisco

A talk about design with Bryan Zmijewski, founder of Zurb.

 

Designers + Geeks ($15)

Thursday, November 17 @ 7pm | San Francisco

A talk about why people fall in love with products with Chris Clark from Square.

 

Lytro Demo (Free)

Friday, November 18 @ 4:30pm | Mountain View

Come and check out the Lytro, the light field camera everyone is talking about.

 

Synthesizer Enthusiasts Meetup (Free)

Sunday, November 20 | Mountain View

A show and tell session where you will be able to check out what other synthesizer enthusiasts are doing.

 

 

Top Upcoming Silicon Valley Startup Events

November 30 – Application date for Women2.0 Pitch

November 30 – Silicon Valley Pitch Bootcamp

December 1 – Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner

December 2 – Warm Gun: Designing Happiness

December 3-4 – AngelHack

December 8 – Pitchcrawl SJ

January 10 – Pitchcrawl SF

January 19 – Startup Exits: Early Stage M&A 25% off with StartupDigest25

 

 

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Munich StartupDigest – November 14, 2011

15/11/2011

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

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Good morning Munich startups, We have a great action-packed week ahead. So don’t miss out on the action.Learn, inspire & build!
Matthias

Munich StartupDigest is curated by:
Matthias Wiemann is a web developer and entrepreneur. His new startup is LNBCK. You can follow him on twitter @wiemann or read his blog. 

What’s Going on in the Munich Startup Community

UnternehmerTUM Entrepreneurs’ Night
When: Monday, November 14th, 2011; 7pm
Where: Vorhoelzer Forum der TU München, Arcisstraße 21, 80333 München
An event for startups, future founders and idea-seekers to meet and get started!

 

Semantic Web Meets Business
When: Tuesday, November 15th, 2011; 7pm
Where: tbd

 

Munich OpenSolaris Users Group
When: Wednesday, November 16th, 2011; 7pm
Where: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (1st floor, I Room 104 “James Bond”), Martiusstr. 4, 80802 München

 

German OWASP Day 2011
When: Thursday, November 17th, 2011 – Friday, 18.11.11
Where: NH Muenchen Dornach, Einsteinring 20, 85609 München
Cost: 279 EUR

Conference about web security.

 

Entrepreneurship Day
When: Thursday, November 17th, 2011; 3pm – 7pm
Where: Hochschule München (Red Cube), Lothstr. 64, 80334 München

Start-Up Teams der Hochschule München und der SEA (Akademie für Social Entrepreneurship) sowie Industriepartner und Kapitalgeber treffen sich am E’ship Day und finden großes Publikum. Sich zu präsentieren und neue Kontakte zu schliessen, die eigenen Ideen der Öffentlichkeit vorzustellen und zum Thema “Gute Kooperation!” Neues zu erfahren, das ist das Ziel der Messe – Veranstaltung. Alle, die sich für Innovationen, Gründungen und Ideenentwicklung interessieren, sind als Gast und/oder als aktive Mitwirkende willkommen.

 

Startup Weekend Stuttgart
When: Friday, November 18th, 2011 – Sunday, Nov. 20th
Where: Macromedia Hochschule Stuttgart, Naststraße 11, 70376 Stuttgart
Cost: 10 – 65 EUR

Startup Weekend is an intense 54-hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. If you simply want to see the results, you can also just sign up for the presentations on Sunday night. Okay, you have to hop on a train, plane or automobile. But Stuttgart is always worth a visit, right?

 

Open Coffee Club
When: Friday, November 18th, 2011; 9am – 10:30am
Where: Restaurant Brenner, Maximilianstrasse 15, 80539 München

An event where startups and investors present for 10 minutes followed by networking among the participants.

 

Webfontday 2011
When: Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Where: Kochan & Partner (Hall 27), Hirschgartenallee 27 Rgb., 80639 München
Cost: 175 EUR

Find out more about how to make your fonts look great on the web and prevent pitfalls. Organized by the Typographische Gesellschaft München.

 

 

Top Upcoming Events

 

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London StartupDigest – November 14, 2011

15/11/2011

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

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Every time people talk about The Valley, what makes it such a unique place and why entrepreneurship there blossoms like nowhere else in the world, you always here the words ecosystem, serendipity, knowledge exchange, support, etc. You always hear stories about entrepreneurs who have made it big and instead of spending the rest of their days sipping pina coladas on some exotic beach, they come back and build another successful company (maybe even two) or they share their experience (and money) as angels or VCs. This is something London has often been criticised for lacking.Well, for those of you who were with us at This Week in Startups London and/or StartupPoker last week, you’d agree that at least on Friday night, this could not be further away form truth. Both events were hosted and sponsored by one of the UK’s most established web companies. A company that now employs over 250 people and generates over £100m in revenues, but who’s founders have not forgotten that only 8 years ago they were also a startup. With that in mind, we’d like to thank Forwardfor being such a great supporter of the London startup scene and helping put on some great tech meetups!Happy Monday,
Dim’ & Kes

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London StartupDigest is curated by:
Kes Thygesen - Co-Founder, RolePoint.com
Dimitar Stanimiroff - Regional Sales Director at Stack Exchange, Europe & Australia

 

 

What’s Going on in the London Startup Community

TechCity Entrepreneurs Festival
When: 14th – 19th November
Where: Tech City, Old Street, London

Held from November 14-19, Entrepreneurs Festival will bring together more than 300 of the best and brightest entrepreneurs from across Europe to meet, train and pitch to the top mentors, entrepreneurs and investors from the UK, USA and Europe.

 

Global Entrepreneurship Week Party
When: 15th November 9pm-2am
Where: Fabric, 77a Charterhouse Street, London EC1M 3HN

Enternships.com in association with the National Consortium of University Entrepreneursinvites you to join us in celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week in style alongside 1000+ entrepreneurs / investors / advisors / press / entrepreneurial students and graduates for an awesome night featuring music from MixCloud DJs and surprise entertainment acts.

 

London Business School TELL Series – Nick Jenkins; Founder Moonpig
When: 16th November
Where: London Business School

London Business School created the TELL Series (formerly the Entrepreneurial Leadership Series) in 2009 to put the spotlight on Entrepreneurship in Europe. Since then TELL has hosted likes of: Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO WPP Group; Natie Kirsh, Kirsh Holdings Group; Herman Hauser, co-founder of Amadeus Capital; Bernard Liautaud founder of Business Objects ($6.8B sale to SAP); and Stan Boland, founder of Element 14 ($640M sale to Broadcom).

 

Bootlaw: Options for Sharing Success
When: 16th November
Where: Pinsent Masons LLP, 30 Crown Place, London

Bootlaw are going to be talking about all things to do with issuing shares or share options to your employees, advisors, contractors or new business partner – basically anyone except an investor.

 

TechCrunch Awards: The Europas
When: 17th November, 7pm
Where: Carbon Bar, Old Quebec Street, W1C 1LZ London

The Europas are the premier European Awards for early stage Internet and Mobile technology startups. The are selected annually by a combination of The Advisory Board (which changes every year) and the voting by the industry.

 

 

Top Upcoming London Startup Events

November 22 – London New Finance – November meetup
November 22 – Lean Startup Track at XP Day
November 23 – Silicon Roundabout Meetup
November 24 – In The Founders’ Studio With Patrick Vlaskovits, Entrepreneurs’ Guide To CustDev
November 24 – How to bootstrap a start-up
November 25 – Startup Weekend Education London
November 29 – Appsjunction & Appsworld Joint Event – Developers, Clients, Apps, Ideas

 

 

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Ottawa StartupDigest – November 7, 2011

8/11/2011

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 Ottawa Entrepreneurs, We are having a quiet week in Ottawa. There are major events in Toronto and Montreal this week however. Some of the Ottawa folks are heading to AccelerateTO and the FounderFuel Demo Day this week which are great events if you are up for the trip.As always, if you organize an event in Ottawa, why not include it here? Let us know here.

If you organize a monthly 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, Igloosity

 

 

What’s Going on in the Ottawa Startup Community

The Ottawa Wireless Event
Time: Thu, November 10, 6:00pm – 9:30pm
Location: bitHeads office, 1309 Carling Avenue, Ottawa

Please join us to network and discuss the business of wireless with professionals from many corners of the wireless sector. The event is open to all wireless professionals free of charge.

 

 

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