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Welcome back to the StartupDigest Reading List, the members-only guide to the best articles on startup life. This week’s theme is joining a startup, plus one great post on key learnings from raising venture capital.- Chris

StartupDigest Reading List is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest

 

 

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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 by Nov. 8, 2011.

 

 

What You Need to Read This Week

Every day more people at large companies tell us that they want to join a startup. Here’s what that change is like.

 

 

Not every startup you join will lead to an exit, but every one should build lasting relationships. Don’t be that guy who jumps from place to place just trying to grab a piece of the next big thing.

 

 

If you’re thinking of joining a startup, how do you know if it’s the right one? Here is the perspective of Keith Rabois, who’s worked at PayPal, Slide, LinkedIn, and Square.

 

Here’s a view from the other side of the table when hiring goes wrong at a startup.

 

A big portion of joining a startup is getting out there and putting yourself in uncomfortable places. Here are some thoughts on meeting people, especially in a group setting.

 

This post doesn’t fit this week’s theme at all, but it was so good that I had to include it.

 

Find all of the best resources on starting, joining, and leading a startup here.

Welcome back to StartupDigest Social, the members-only guide to what you need to read in the social media industry every week.This week’s edition focuses on a few stories that illustrate the man that Steve Jobs was, ad revenue from social networks worldwide being expected to reach $5.54 billion this year, LinkedIn finally spending some of the cash it raised when it made its stock market debut earlier this year, and Twitter officially opening the doors of its New York office.

 

 

What You Need to Read This Week

Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

By Jay Yarow, Business Insider

A collection of excellent pieces written in memory of the late Steve Jobs, a man who changed the world many times over.

Global Ad Revenues From Social Networks To Reach $5.4B In 2011; $10B In 2013

By Leena Rao, TechCrunch

Very bullish growth expectations for the social ad market.

LinkedIn starts spending its IPO cash — very, very slowly

By Colleen Taylor, GigaOM

The professional social network (post-IPO) goes shopping.

Twitter’s NYC office opens with Mayor Bloomberg on hand

By Sean Ludwig, VentureBeat

The NYC tech scene just got a big name addition.

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

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Developer, developers, developers. This should be devweek. There is Google DevFest and Geekcamp all happening in the same week. (There is also a Geekcamp in Singapore on Saturday). Whether you are passionate about technology or just want to check the latest and coolest stuff like Android, MongoDB or Node.js, this is the week to embrace your inner geek.Also, Silicon Valley Comes to Malaysia is happening next month and to join, you are supposed to submit your ideas. This event features some interesting entrepreneurs such as YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, LinkedIn co-founder Konstantin Guericke, and Napster founder Shawn Fanning.Also don’t forget to listen to This Week in Asia to win your copy of Sarah Lacy’s book, Brilliant Crazy, Cocky: How The Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit From Global Chaos. The book is sponsored by Sarah Lacy and her publisher and each week we select a winner.

Malaysia StartupDigest is curated by:
Daniel CerVentus – Co-Founder of Entrepreneurs.my and This Week in Asia

 

 

What’s Going on in Malaysia’s Startup Community

 

Google Devfest is back in KL. For those have register, your confirmation should be in the inbox. DevFest events are a great opportunity to learn more about Google technologies and developer
products. The events also give you a chance to meet developer advocates and engineers who work on those products and ask them any questions you might have. Seats are limited but you can still try your luck here.

This is an exhibition for entrepreneurs that will have around 20 seminars and workshops, and more than 100 exhibitors. There will also be a keynote by GreenPacket founder, Puan Chan Cheong. It is free and register yourself here.

It’s a free, action-packed, 1-night event open to all. We might host some talks targeted at development professionals from all sorts of roles in the industry, otherwise we will just hang out and network with development professionals around you, and of course, unleash your inner geek!

Geekcamp is an unconference geared towards geeks and all things technical. The idea is to share knowledge and to learn from others in the industry. Anybody can freely attend Geekcamp and attendees are encouraged (but not required) to give a short 20-minute talk on their favorite technology. We still need more technical talks, so submit your talks here.

 

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

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Remember that you can always submit events to be included in the next week’s issue.

 

Silicon Valley conoce Atacama Valley: “Seminario internacional sobre educación en emprendimiento, innovación y creatividad”
Cuándo: 05 de Septiembre, 5:30pm
Dónde: Fundación Minera Escondida, Av. Bernardo O’Higgins #1280, Antofagasta

 

This week’s edition focuses on some newspaper and media sites seeing a big traffic boost from implementing Facebook comments, Activision being skeptical of the numbers being put forth for competitors like Zynga and Rovio, an interview with one of Silicon Valley’s best known entrepreneurs and investors Reid Hoffman, and Facebook trying to create some sort of Android-based “Facebook phone.”

 

 

What You Need to Read This Week

Handing comments over to Facebook is a double-edged sword
By Mathew Ingram, GigaOM

Facebook’s continued push against the anonymous web.

Activision: Social Game Company Valuations “Out Of Whack”
By Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch

One major game company is not into the social/mobile hype…

Reid Hoffman Talks About LinkedIn and VC Life and Gives Five Tips to Start-Ups (Video)
By Kara Swisher, AllThingsD

Reid Hoffman knows a thing or two about startups.

Time For Facebook To Buy WebOS From HP For A Couple Bucks
By Nicholas Carlson, Business Insider

Google’s acquisition of Motoralla this week has given Facebook another great reason to launch their own mobile OS.

 

 

This week’s edition focuses on LinkedIn shares dropping 10 percent during the day and then shooting up 10 percent, Instagram reaching a milestone of 150 million shared photos, developers sticking with the status quo or swing for the fences, and Randi Zuckerberg leaving Facebook after six years to start a new media firm to help companies become more social.

 

 

What You Need to Read This Week

LinkedIn Gives Wall Street a Tiny Bit of Cheer, Then Something to Worry About
By Peter Kafka, AllThingsD

I wonder how long Wall Street will give them before they really need to juice up those revenue numbers.

Instagram snaps 150M photos, 7M users — still only 4 employees
By Devindra Hardawar, VentureBeat

The social/photo/mobile leaders Instagram flex their muscles this week with some impressive stats.

The app dilemma: Is it a feature, or a business?
By Colleen Taylor, GigaOM

Great article on why some apps don’t need to become a swing for the fences venture and why some should.

Exclusive: Randi Zuckerberg Leaves Facebook to Start New Social Media Firm (Resignation Letter)
By Kara Swisher, AllThingsD

Big name departure at Facebook this week, guess who?

 

This week’s edition focuses on Twitter users starting to see ads in their timeline over the next few weeks, Facebook’s secret plan to bring applications to the mobile web via HTML5, a blog post from web designer Andy Rutledge that tore apart the New York Times website for being ugly and cluttered, and LinkedIn launching a new plugin that makes the process of applying for a job as easy as clicking a button. 

 

 

What You Need to Read This Week

Promoted Tweets Set To Appear in Your Twitter Timeline

By Adam Ostrow, Mashable

Bring on the ads, says Twitter HQ.

Facebook Will Bring Credits To Mobile Browsers

By MG Siegler, TechCrunch

More details on Facebook’s long term mobile strategy and how credits might fit in.

If your news site isn’t social, great design won’t matter

By Mathew Ingram, GigaOM

How social is becoming the central point of design in terms of news and information websites.

LinkedIn launches plugin for one-click job applications

By Sean Ludwig, VentureBeat

No more cover letters!

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

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Good Morning, Toronto Startups and Entrepreneurs!

Last week we heard Google+ reached more 10 million users. If you haven’t heard of Google+, please come out from under that rock! I’ll be interested to see if Google can finally get social right.

This week there are a few events to keep you busy – I’ll be hanging out at the GROW Conference Pre-Party on Tuesday. There will be a great CVCA event about Building Strategic Partnerships with a GREAT panel; there will also be a number of great speakers at this week’s CrossMediaTO. Toronto StartupDigest readers were also given a special rate to attend GROW Conference in Vancouver, care of the C100 (AccelerateTO). Thanks!

Toronto StartupDigest is curated by:
Will Lam – Founder of Date Ideas and keeps a blog on Entrepreneurship
Josh Sookman – CEO, Guardly

 

 

What’s Going on in the Toronto Startup Community

Rails Pub Nite
When: July 18 at 7-11pm
Where: The Rhino, 1249 Queen St. West, Toronto, ON

RPN is free of cost and everyone interested in web development is encouraged to join us for a pint. Please note that this is a social event, not a user group. There are no technical demonstrations at Pub Nite.

Grow Conference Pre-Party
When: July 19 at 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Where: 314 Queen St. W, Toronto, ON

Jeff Musson from Dynamitenetwork.com, Soniya Monga from LinkedIn, Jonas Brandon & David Crow from Startup North are pleased to Co-host the Grow Conference “Pre Party” on July 19th at Ultra Supper Club, 6:00pm. This is an event and meetup for individuals and companies that are heading to the Grow Conference in Vancouver, on August 17, 2011. (We want to see people at this event from all over Southern Ontario.)

CVCA – Building Strategic Partnerships
When: July 20 at 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Where: Toronto Board of Trade, 1 First Canadian Place, 4th Floor, 100 King Street West, Toronto, ON

Join us for a roundtable discussion with seasoned investors and entrepreneurs who will share their perspectives on the value of developing key strategic partnerships with industry players in order to grow, innovate and ultimately exit their respective companies.

CrossMediaTO
When: July 20 at 6pm
Where: The Spoke Club, 600 King St. West, Toronto, ON

Each month we focus on one of the 5 key cross media sectors (motion, mobile, marketing, publishing, gaming). We find local speakers who are experts in their sector. We ask them to present, then discuss their business model, and take questions from the audience. The evening is about networking and knowledge sharing.

Ruby Hack Night
When: July 24 at 10am – 4pm
Where: Influitive’s Office, 457 Richmond St. West, Suite 200 Toronto, ON

If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past few months, you’ve probably noticed that Rails 3.1 is due to be released very soon. The Rails core team has announced a weekend hackfest to polish up Rails 3.1. Since this was so close to our hack night date anyway, we’re going to join the hackfest and host the live Toronto Rails 3.1 Hackfest. Details on the hackfest are here.

 

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

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Get ready for another week of interesting events; we have database, performance, numbers, embedded programming, and more! 

Silicon Valley HackersDigest is curated by:
Santiago Zavala

 

 

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What’s Going on in the Silicon Valley Hacker Community

“BEGIN…COMMIT” is Not Enough: Understanding Transactions
When: Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 6:30 PM
Where: Microsoft, 1065 La Avenida, Mountain View, CA 

Denise McInerney will explain the fundamentals of transactions and how they behave in SQL Server. She will delve into ACID properties, isolation levels and nested transactions. She’ll also review how to structure transactions to satisfy business rules and ensure efficient performance.

MongoDB at Zuberance, and Scaling with MongoDB
When: Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 6:30 PM
Where: Yahoo Bldg E – Cafe, 701 First Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 

Building a Reporting Engine with MongoDB - Chris Carrier, Zuberance.

Scaling with MongoDB - Jared Rosoff, 10gen.

Performance at LinkedIn
When:Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 7:00 PM
Where: LinkedIn, 2025 Stierlin Court, Mountain View – Unite Conference Room 

In this session, we’ll discuss how we have been bringing the different pieces together at LinkedIn, and how different approaches have produced varying degrees of success.

Amateur Number Theorists: Problems In Divisibility – Pt Ii
When: Thursday, July 21 2011 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Where: Hacker Dojo, 140A South Whisman Rd., Mountain View, CA 94041 

Short presentation followed by discussion. Please see the ANT meetup website for the current problems we will be tackling.

Svesmg: Embedded Programming With Arm Cortex-M3: Basic Experiments 1
When: Sunday, July 24 2011, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Where: Hacker Dojo, 140A South Whisman Rd., Mountain View, CA 94041 

Embedded Programming with ARM Cortex-M3: Basic Experiments 1.