A few good technical meetups this week. Be sure to register for the upcoming DC Tech Meetup as well.

DC StartupDigest is curated by:
Michael Mayernick – Co-Founder, Spinnakr

DC 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 DC Startup Community

Morning Vancouver!

A lot of great events this week with a VEF year-end BBQ with Facebook’s Jonathan Ehrlich (special discount for SD readers below), Eclipse DemoCamp and Startup Drinks on Wednesday. For those devs/hackers, you may be interested in the Cassandra talk (Cassandra is used by Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit & more) and the ruby lightning talks.

Also, for startups who are still thinking of applying to Grow 2011, the deadline has been extended.

For Newcomers: StartupDigest highlights the best events for startup entrepreneurs in YVR every Monday. Remember to reach out if I missed any good events, you have questions or comments, or if you find the digest helps you! (I especially like the latter.)

Cheers,
Jon Chui

P.S. Are you an early stage startup trying to get new users and promote your startup? Apply to get featured on StartupDigest.

Vancouver StartupDigest is curated by:
Jon Chui – iPhone Developer, Invoke Media
Submit events to me here.

What’s Going on in the Vancouver Startup Community

Eclipse DemoCamp 2011
When: Mon June 27, 6:00pm
Where: UBC Robson Square, Room C400 (after party at the Lennox Pub)

An opportunity to showcase all of the cool technology being built by the Eclipse community and an opportunity to meet other Eclipse enthusiasts in Vancouver.

VEF Special BBQ: A Casual Chat With Jonathan Ehrlich, Former Head of Marketing At Facebook
When: Tues June 28, 5:00pm
Where: Centre for Digital Media, Great Northern Way Campus @ 577 Great Northern Way (2nd and Main St), Vancouver, BC, Canada

Though this event is for VEF Members & sponsors only, Christine @ VEF was nice enough to offer the first five startup digest readers who email admin@vef.org membership rates!

Bootcamp3: Landing Page Design @Unbounce
When: Tues June 28, 6:00pm
Where: Unbounce World Headquarters – Suite 104, 375 Water Street – Vancouver, BC V5K 0A1, Canada

Optimize landing pages with local startup Unbounce + free beer. What more could you ask for?

New Location! Beer + startups.

Learn how Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit & more use Cassandra
When: Wed June 29, 7:00pm
Where: C.440 UBC Robson Square

Cassandra is used by Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Rackspace, Cloudkick, Cisco, SimpleGeo, Ooyala, OpenX for developing a highly scalable second-generation distributed database.

The View From Here: What’s on the Horizon in Technology and Consulting
When: Thurs June 30, 5:30pm
Where: Coast Coal Harbour Hotel @ 1180 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6E 4T7, Canada

For the techies & devs, a summary of web technologies like Amazon Web Services and Heroku Coffeescript and Gradle Thoughtful Caching HTML 5, jQuery Mobile and the Mobile Web.

Ruby / Rails Lightning Talks
When: Thurs June 30, 7:00pm
Where: Orbs.com – 1605-555 W. Hastings St., Harbour Centre – Vancouver, BC V6B 4N4, Canada

Ruby coders sharing code + gems.

Startup Coffee Meetup
When: Thurs June 30, 8:00pm
Where: Waves Coffee – 211 Robson Street – Vancouver, BC , Canada

A small group of bootstrappers who discuss products and problems in their startups.

Foodtree iPhone Launch – Photo Scavenger Hunt!
When: Sat July 2, 10:00am
Where: Trout Lake Farmers Market

Join Foodtree’s iPhone launch Scavenger hunt!

Top Upcoming Vancouver Startup Events

July 8 – Friday Afternoon Drinks
July 9 - Tech Cocktail’s Vancouver Summer Mixer & Innovation Showcase
August 17-19 – Grow Conference 2011

Do drop me a note at gwen@thestartupdigest.com if you have any feedback, questions, or ideas.

Singapore StartupDigest is curated by:
Gwendolyn Regina Tan – Co-founder & Editor-in-Chief, SGEntrepreneurs

What’s Going on in the Singapore Startup Community

GSMA Mobile Money Summit 2011
When: Monday-Thursday 27-30 June 2011
Where: Marina Bay Sands

This summit brings many people across the mobile industry: telecommunications, handset manufacturers, etc., to talk about the latest developments in NFC and Innovations in mPayments as well as the Development of an Agent Network.

Startup Roots Speaker Series: Fireside Chat with Bunnie of Chumby
When: Thursday 30th June 2011, 7-9pm
Where: HackerspaceSG, 70A Bussorah St, Singapore 199483

Next up in the Startup Roots Singapore speaker series is Andrew “Bunnie” Huang, co-founder of Chumby.

Top Upcoming Events

July 8 – Lean Startup Breakfast Singapore

All is quiet on the Prairie this week. Hope everyone is staying safe with all of the crazy weather we have been having lately. On a sidenote, if you appreciate and enjoy the digest, please share it with your friends. Thanks for being a part of the Prairie.

Silicon Prairie StartupDigest is curated by:
Willis Jackson – Co-Founder of Mashtunbeer

What’s Going on in the Silicon Prairie Startup Community

Startup Drinks Des Moines
Where: Tallys Restaurant
When: Tuesday June 28th

A simple concept: startup culture in cities around the world gathers at a bar to have a pint and discuss what they are working on, what they need help with and what they can do for each other.

Seoul StartupDigest is curated by:
Tae Woo Kim, @challengekim

English version of Seoul StartupDigest is edited by: Nanoomi

What’s Going on in the Seoul Startup Community

Please send your questions and comments on the featured events to jbradshaw@thestartupdigest.com.

Enjoy!
- Jon

Salt Lake City StartupDigest is curated by:
Jon Bradshaw – Co-Founder of BoomStartup & works with UtahAngels
Scott Lemon – Owner of HumanXtensions & Founder of KarmaKey

Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City Startup Community

Internet Marketing Mash
When: Monday, June 27, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Where: MACU Tanner Building, 7167 Center Park Drive, West Jordan, UT

Come hungry and come ready to learn specific Internet Marketing skills from industry leaders Michael Eagar & Jeremy Frandsen. Not only will food and refeshments be provided, but Michael and Jeremy are ready to serve fresh doses of SEO and Internet Business knowledge to help jump start your career as an entrepreneur!

Junto Partners
When: Tuesday, June 28, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Where: MACU Tanner Building, 7167 Center Park Drive, West Jordan, UT

Since 2004 Junto has helped entrepreneurs discover what it takes to be successful. Junto has become a badge of honor – even a right of passage for Utah’s entrepreneurs.

Salt Lake City Ruby User Group
When: Tuesday, June 28, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Where: Neumont University, 10701 River Front Parkway, Suite #300, South Jordan, UT

The Utah Ruby Users Group (“URUG”) is a non-profit organization of individuals interested in the Ruby programming language.

Ogden Area Linux User Group Meeting
When: Tuesday, June 28, 7:00 PM – 8:45 PM
Where: 201 East 2150 North, Suite C, Layton, UT

This meeting is about Salt, which is similar to Func, Mcollective, or Fabric. More than that, Salt’s design as an efficient communication layer holds the future promise of competition with state-management tools such as Puppet or Chef. Salt is also laying the groundwork for higher-level tools such as a virtual-machine provisioning layer (Butter) as well as competition for monitoring and alerting tools like Nagios/ZenOSS and Munin/Cacti.

July Entrepreneur Pub Crawl
When: Friday, July 1, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Where: Red Rock Brewing Company, 254 South 200 West, Salt Lake City, UT

Based on the success of the last Pub Crawl, we are doing it again. We will meet at Red Rock Brewing on Friday July 1st and then head over the BeerHive to wrap things up. Dinner will be at 6:00 PM – if you want to come to dinner, please RSVP to aspenwebservices@gmail.com by June 30th. The Pub Crawl will start at 7 and go to whenever.

Featured startup of the week: Clique. “In real life, you meet people through your friends. Why? Because you trust them. They know you. They know what you like to do, where you like to go, your passions and your quirks. And since they love those things about you, they’re going to have other friends who share the same interests—you just haven’t met them yet.” Want to get your startup mentioned? Let us know here.

Also, as a NYC StartupDigest subscriber, you get 40% off this great event: Assembled Capital, Fundraising Stories from Founders, with the code “QBK925.”

For newcomers: The NYC StartupDigest is an events list, created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, that is laser-focused on the needs of startups in NYC. Please add your feedback here.

- Carter

NYC StartupDigest is curated by:
Carter Cleveland – Founder, Art.sy
Frank Denbow – Founder, Songsicle

NYC StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has been working with the startup community for almost 30 years.  The SVB NYC office has been running for 10 years and we work with many NYC startups.  If you want to learn more about how we can help your startup, get in touch with Shai Goldman at sgoldman@svb.com.

What’s Going On in the NYC Startup Community:

Monday, June 27

DreamIt Happy Hour
6pm at 28 W 27th St, 11th Floor

Come hang out with DreamIt Ventures.

NY Scala Meetup: A Pattern Language of Concurrency
6:30pm at Meetup HQ, 632 Broadway

3 speakers will show you various concurrent design patterns with real Scala code.

Introduction to HR & Employment Law
8pm at General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor

This class will give you tools to identify some especially dangerous human resource and employment law issues.

Awesome Foundation Summer Party
8pm at Babycastles, 285 Keny Ave, Brooklyn

The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is celebrating its latest grant recipients.

Tuesday, June 28

Introduction to HTML
6pm at General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor

Learn the key elements of HTML from Hong Qu, former UI designer at YouTube.

eAmore NYC Innovation Summit
6pm at Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St, Brooklyn

Come for a showcase of innovation in the online dating space.

Ruby Hackfest
7pm at Pivotal Labs, 841 Broadway

Come hang with other rubyists.

The Art of Risk Taking
8pm at General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor

This course will help you find the right timing for taking risks that will help your startup grow.

Wednesday, June 29

Social Commerce Roundtable
8:30am at SNR Denton, 1221 Avenue of the Americas

Join a discussion of models new and old that are emerging to help optimize results when social meets the supply chain.

Founders @Fail: Hiring and Firing Best Practices
6:30pm at General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor

Come for a panel on the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to building teams.

How to get profiled in the New York Times
7pm at Old School, 233 Mott St, 3rd Floor

Learn how to hack print media and do PR right.

5 Ways to Acquire Users For Free
7pm at Dogpatch Labs, 36 E 12th St, 2nd Floor

Learn from Vin Vacanti, Co-Founder and CEO of Yipit.

New York Tech Comedy Ball
8pm at Greenhouse, 150 Varick St

An open bar, comedy show, and dance party with the best people in NY tech.

Thursday, June 30

CPA in Mobile Advertising
6pm at General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor

This class is for you if you are looking to enter the mobile space or leverage mobile advertising to drive revenue, traffic or engagement.

Learn from business development reps from Foursquare, Hashable, and GroupMe.

Talk & Q&A with Steve Horowitz, COO of Ziff Davis
7pm at General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor

Steve will present data on tablet, mobile, and cloud trends and identify how those trends will change both consumer use and your product planning.

Friday, July 1

The Business of Beer
5pm at General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor

Shane Welch, president of Sixpoint Craft Ales, will provide an overview of the artisan brewery scene today.

Saturday, July 2

NYC Startup and Dim Sum Enthusiasts Meetup
10:30am at Jing Fong Restaurant, 20 Elizabeth St

Tuesday, July 5

5pm – Choosing Technology for Your New Project
6pm – HTML5′s Best Kept Secret: Using Microdata to Improve Your Search Results

Wednesday, July 6

6pm – A Practical Introduction to Javascript
6pm – Sales Psychology for Entrepreneurs
6:30pm – Front-End Web Development Workshop
8pm – Business Infrastructure Growth: Case-Studies in Real Scaling

Thursday, July 7

6pm – Entrepreneurs and Investors Networking Event
6pm – Selling to Middle America
7pm – Design Therapy Workshop

Top Upcoming NYC Startup Events

July 9 – GothamJS: The New York JavaScript Conference
July 10 – Red Bull Creation
July 11 – Hack and Tell Meetup
July 11 – Network Security for Startups
July 11 – Green Breakfast Club
July 12 – Code Meet Print NY Meetup
July 15 – Branding for Entrepreneurs
July 16 – A Founder’s Guide to Fundraising (use code QBK925 for 40% off)

First of all – I want to introduce you all to my new co-curator, Maurice Kroon. Maurice is an experienced entrepreneur from Amsterdam and has built multiple web-startups, of which Studentify is his latest endeavor. We will be joining forces to be keeping you all abreast of Holland’s finest entrepreneurial events!

Now, back to the events – Appsterdam’s launch party was last weekend – This week’s a slow one. A lot of cool meet-ups coming up after this week, here are some worth knowing about.

Have a good week!
- Omid

Netherlands StartupDigest is curated by:

What’s Coming up in the Netherlands Startup Community

July 4 – Techmap – Crowd Sourcing – creativity & innovation
July 7 - Hackers and Founders
July 8-10 - Startup Weekend – Amsterdam

Last week we mentioned that a hackathon was being planned, but the link to the signup form was broken. Please use this form to sign-up so that we have an idea for who is interested in participating. Also, if you are looking for legal guidance on everything from convertible notes to incorporation, check out Startup Lawyer. It’s a good resource if you are starting to transition from an idea to a company. Have a great week!

Michigan StartupDigest is curated by:
Raji Bedi – Founder, doingtonight.com
Jeff Epstein – Founder, zferral.com

Michigan 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 Michigan Startup Community