Below is an archived version of the Lexington StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Lexington.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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Lexington StartupDigest is curated by:
Sean O’Leary – Director of Venture Finance, KSTC

 

 

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Startup Weekend founders share tips and insights in their first book, How to Take a Company from Concept to Creation in 54 Hours. Funded by the Kauffman Foundation, the book outlines key beliefs that have yielded powerful results. Order your copy Nov. 8, 2011.

 

 

What’s Going on in the Lexington Community

Social, Mobile, Local Lexington
When: Tuesday, Oct 25, 9.00am – 4.00pm
Where: Hyatt Regency Lexington, 401 W. High St., Lexington

Learn about the many tools and technologies available to take your business into the realm of Social Mobile Local and how you can leverage these technologies to maximize your success!

 

Join us to hear from John Meister of Pheeva. John will give a high level introduction to Unity, which is a game engine and development environment for PC/Mac, web, mobile, and consoles. Plus we will enjoy some pizza and discuss upcoming events.

 

Five Across will be an informal gathering of entrepreneurs, investors and service providers from Lexington. Each Five Across meeting features presentations from local entrepreneurs who will pitch their ideas to a panel of judges for the chance to win $500.

 

Breakfast talks to spark ideas.

 

 

Top Upcoming Events

Nov 2 – Startup Slam/Startup Advantage
Nov 11-12 – HackerSpace Workshop
Nov 15 - Commercialize Your Idea

 

Below is an archived version of the Miami StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Miami.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

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Thanks to the Hurricane-That-Wasn’t, several of last week’s events were preemptively rescheduled including Refresh Miami and South FL Technology Alliance (don’t forget – StartupDigest readers get discounted member pricing). If you had not made plans to attend, you now have time. This week also brings several meetups both north and south.

Seth Elliott

Miami StartupDigest is curated by:
Seth Elliott – Founding partner at the Apheleon Group, Founder of Eurek.Us and Co-Founder of The Startup Forum

 

 

Miami StartupDigest is made possible 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 Miami Startup Community

Palm Beach SEO (Free)
August 29, 6:00 PM
Gardens Branch Library, 11303 Campus Drive, Palm Beach Gardens FL

The topic for discussion will be: Internet Marketing Success Stories.

South FL Game Development Meetup (Free)
August 31, 7:00 PM
American Intercontinental University, 2250 N Commercial Pkwy, Weston FL

David will be demonstrating some basic getting started techniques in game development: creating a simple character in Maya and texture it; animate a simple action; import the animation into a game engine and assign a key and movement to the action. Total time 30-40min.

Miami Java Meetup: Shallow Dive into Mercurial HG (Free)
August 31, 3:00 PM
Stephen Clark Govt. Center, 111 NW 1st St., Miami FL

Distributed source control management systems have become the norm for organizations and open source projects. The two big boys are GIT and HG. We will dive into the commands of mercurial from the command line and try to understand what they do. Later we will look at two of the most used tools to interact with mercurial if the command line is not your thing: Eclipse plugin and TortoiseHg.

 

Top Upcoming Miami Startup Events

September 8 - Refresh Miami (Free)
September 8 - South FL Technology Alliance ($25 for StartupDigest Members - Register to attend for only $25 [55% discount] using this link. Be sure to input Startup Digest in the “Special Instructions” field.)