Austin StartupDigest – December 12, 2011

12/12/2011

Below is an archived version of the Austin StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Austin.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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Greetings!We hope to see everyone out at Buffalo Billiards on Tuesday night for the Web Community Bash. A massive collection of Austin’s web and tech meetups are banding together to raise money/collect food for the Capital Area Food Bank and get together for a great time. That same evening, Internet Marketing Party is hosting AppSumo’s Noah Kagan. Listening to Noah talk startups and marketing is always entertaining and informative!

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 about the Austin StartupDigest today!

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:
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 Austin Startup Community

Web Community Holiday Bash

When: 12/13/11, 7-9pm

Where: Buffalo Billiards (6th & Brazos)

It’s that time again. Come on out for a year-end gathering with many of the other tech and web meetups from around town. Catch up with old friends, and make a few new ones. Thanks to our awesome sponsors, we’ll have a sizable bar tab for the night. For your admission, please bring at least one canned food item for the Capital Area Food Bank. Thank you!

Internet Marketing Party: Noah Kagan

When: 12/13/11, 7-?pm

Where: Register to see location

Join us as we welcome “Chief Sumo” Noah Kagan to The Internet Marketing Party stage. Noah Kagan built two multi-million dollar online businesses before turning 28. He is going to share with you how he did it!

Open Coffee Austin (Central)

When: 12/15/11,8:30-10am

Where: Jones-Dilworth (4200 N Lamar)

Drink a great cup of coffee and meet other entrepreneurs and investors in an informal setting. Pitch a new idea, demo your latest, share tactics — whatever you’re into right now.

 

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LA StartupDigest – Thankful For What You Got | November 21, 2011

21/11/2011

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, This week’s SD wisdom comes to us courtesy of William DeVaughn:Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac
Gangsta whitewalls, TV antennas in the back
You may not have a car at all
But remember brothers and sisters
You can still stand tall
Just be thankful for what you’ve got

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” narrated by Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation.

 

 

What’s Going on in the LA Startup Community

SkillShare: Get Lean with Eric Ries
When: November 21, 6:30pm
Where: Mahalo in Culver City

Learn Lean Startup Methodology from the man, the myth, the legend himself.

 

Lean LA with Noah Kagan
When: November 22, 7:00pm
Where: Coloft

Learn Lean Startup marketing lessons from a pro that deployed it at AppSumo, Mint and Facebook.

 

Responsibly: The Commencement
When: November 25, 9:00pm
Where: A Fancy-schmancy Estate in Bel Air

After getting Lean early in the week, here’s a great way to get fat and part with some cash in a show of thanks, while celebrating the kick-off of LA’s newest social entrepreneurship venture. And of course, drinking heavily.

 

 

Top Upcoming LA Startup Events

December 7: Lean LA - Learn from IMVU

 

 

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The Best Startup Articles – April 15, 2011

15/04/2011

For newcomers: StartupDigest Reading List is the members-only weekly email newsletter of the best articles in the world of tech startups. You can become a member for free here.

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Startups: How to Communicate Traction to Investors
By Brendan Baker

If you don’t know what “traction” means first read this, then read this post on how to communicate it.

Brendan works with AngelList and really knows his stuff. This post is pure gold.

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Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
By Joel Spolsky

When forming a company one of the first things you need to do is decide how to split up the equity with your co-founder(s). It’s a very hard and emotional process but here is one way to think through this from Joel Spolsky, who started Stack Exchange.

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Startups: Don’t just collect my email
By Phil Anderson

You have a product idea, you put up a launching soon form, you got their email address, now what? Don’t forget to regularly communicate with your beta users before, during, and after building your product.

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Three Signs You Have A Management Problem, And That Problem Might Be You
By Justin Khan

Once your startup starts to get traction and get employees you’ll need to start worrying about company culture and keeping others motivated. Here is Justin Khan, co-founder of Justin.tv, and his story of how he failed at this but has improved.

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Mint’s Original Marketing Plan (circa 2007)
By Noah Kagan

Mint.com launched in 2007, was acquired in September 2009, and was one of the fastest growing finance companies of its kind. Here is the original marketing plan of how Noah Kagan (CMO of Mint) thought through their pre-launch marketing strategy.

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Why T-Shirts Matter
By Adam Nash

T-Shirts are simple things but can do big things for unifying a team.

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