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Vancouver StartupDigest is curated by:
Jon Chui – iPhone Developer, Invoke Media

 

 

What’s Going on in the Vancouver Startup Community

Mesh West
When: Mon Dec 5, 9:00am
Where: 85 West 1st Avenue (The Salt Building), Vancouver, V5Y 0C4

Come hear Steward Butterfield (Flickr co-founder, now tiny speck), Jason Bailey (grow labs, eastside games), Mike McDerment (fresh books co-founder), and more at a one-day event about what’s next online for marketers, entrepreneurs, the media and citizens. Limited student tickets available for $49 — check fast!

 

Entrepreneurship coach, Scotty Ward, who also led the team that won the first Startup Weekend Vancouver last year, will be doing this session!

 

Beer is a staple of hackers. ;)

 

Should be quite epic: • The Vancouver Blogger’s Meetup • The Vancouver Entrepreneur Meetup • The Real Estate Technology Meetup • The Vancouver Sales Performance Meetup • The Socialized Lunch Meetup • The Social Media Club Vancouver Meetup • The Young Professionals Meetup • The Vancouver WordPress Meetup • The ByzHub Meetup.

 

 

Agile methodology + writing clean code.

 

A practical workshop for entrepreneurs, investors and advisors, brought to you from the Angel Forum Vancouver.

 

 

For those hackers…

 

Even startups need to party: Need for Speed consoles with Fastest Prizes (like xbox 360′s or iOS deviceS), Poker Tables, and smartPics booths!

 

Sick of all the software only stuff for men? Well, how about hardware for ladies? That’s right! register here.

 

Work hard, play hard, right?

 

For those startups who want to get paid by the government to do R&D (Well, kind of… ).

 

 

Top Upcoming Events

Tues Dec 13, 6:00pm – Van iDev Meetup – iCandy
Tues Dec 13, 7:00pm – Discuss Pair Programming
Thurs Dec 15, 8:30am – GrowthWorkshop: Understanding & Preparing Your SR&ED Claim
Thurs Dec 29, 6:00pm – Startup Drinks Vancouver

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How do new businesses get ahead in the “Money Game”? Navigating the growing startup financing landscape is the focus of the latest animated video from the Kauffman Foundation’s sketchbook series. Watch “Money Game,” where Kauffman Senior Fellow Paul Kedrosky breaks down the methods entrepreneurs use to raise capital, and the benefits—and hazards—of each.

 

 

What’s Going on in the Boston Startup Community

DrinksOnTap 11 – Pre Holiday Edition
When: Monday, December 5 6pm-10pm
Where: Asgard 350 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02139

Grab a drink and talk about the latest mobile apps in Boston.

 

Grab some beers with FounderMatchUp instead of paying the $195 ticket for the MITX Awards.

 

Michael Bungay Stanier, author of Do More Great Work talks about how you can do more great work. You get a copy of the book w/ the admission ($10) and pizza.

 

As part of Venture Cafe, bring some food, drinks are on the house, and meet some other cool startup people.

 

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

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

 

 

DC 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 DC Startup Community

Paul Singh is Principal at 500 Startups — he helps Dave McClure and team run the show. We’ll have a wide-ranging conversation with Paul about customer traction, accelerators, funding, and entrepreneurial best practices. We’ll explore what 500 is looking for in their companies. And we’ll talk about his perception of the Lean Startup methodology and whether 500 encourages their companies to apply it.

 

MoDevEast2011 is a two day event where beginning and advanced mobile developers and marketers gain the upper edge. If you are developing apps or mobile websites, targeting phones or tablets, staying ahead is paramount in this fast moving industry. The Friday conference schedule will offer five tracks that hone development skills and sharpen mobile business strategy. For developers who want more and a chance at over $15,000 in prizes there’s a hackathon event on Saturday from 9am-6pm.

 

New to Erlang? Learn the basics — and find out why Erlang should be in your programmer’s toolkit — during the morning bootcamp. Meet fellow DC-area Erlang enthusiasts at lunch. Learn advanced Erlang techniques in the afternoon tech talks. Swap Erlang war stories and make lifelong friends over pints at the post- conference Happy Hour.

 

DC Tech Meetup #10: Social Commerce Edition.

 

Venture Capital Outlook 2012 is part of the Potomac Tech Wire breakfast series that brings together senior executives in the Mid-Atlantic to discuss technology issues in a conversational, roundtable environment moderated by the editor of Potomac Tech Wire. The panel will focus on the overall outlook for venture capital investing in the DC area, current deal terms, technology trends, valuation issues, and predictions.

 

JOIN is a career fair, but done differently. For hiring startups only, we create a pool of qualified candidates from the requirements that companies list on the registration form. This is not a meat-market — just a high quality matching event. We have had great success in the past, with 60% of participating startups having extended offers to one or more candidates they met at JOIN. The smaller size, and pre-screened nature, allows folks to concentrate more finding good matches for their teams.

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

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

 

 

DC 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 DC Startup Community

Paul Singh is Principal at 500 Startups — he helps Dave McClure and team run the show. We’ll have a wide-ranging conversation with Paul about customer traction, accelerators, funding, and entrepreneurial best practices. We’ll explore what 500 is looking for in their companies. And we’ll talk about his perception of the Lean Startup methodology and whether 500 encourages their companies to apply it.

 

MoDevEast2011 is a two day event where beginning and advanced mobile developers and marketers gain the upper edge. If you are developing apps or mobile websites, targeting phones or tablets, staying ahead is paramount in this fast moving industry. The Friday conference schedule will offer five tracks that hone development skills and sharpen mobile business strategy. For developers who want more and a chance at over $15,000 in prizes there’s a hackathon event on Saturday from 9am-6pm.

 

New to Erlang? Learn the basics — and find out why Erlang should be in your programmer’s toolkit — during the morning bootcamp. Meet fellow DC-area Erlang enthusiasts at lunch. Learn advanced Erlang techniques in the afternoon tech talks. Swap Erlang war stories and make lifelong friends over pints at the post- conference Happy Hour.

 

DC Tech Meetup #10: Social Commerce Edition.

 

JOIN is a career fair, but done differently. For hiring startups only, we create a pool of qualified candidates from the requirements that companies list on the registration form. This is not a meat-market — just a high quality matching event. We have had great success in the past, with 60% of participating startups having extended offers to one or more candidates they met at JOIN. The smaller size, and pre-screened nature, allows folks to concentrate more finding good matches for their teams.

 

 

For newcomers: StartupDigest Marketing is the members-only weekly email newsletter of the best resources in marketing.

You can become a member for free here.

Welcome back to StartupDigest Marketing, the members-only weekly guide for making marketing meaningful to your company’s goals. Startup marketers need to always make sure that we’re constantly learning, which is why I’m assuming you all subscribed. :) It is understandable that you feel like there is information overload, so how do you think your audience feels? As Mint.com demonstrated (some of whose early team members have gone on to found http://visual.ly), infographics are a great way to get your message out. Whether you’re considering doing your first one or have published many already, check out this week’s reading.If you have a startup marketing resource you’d like to share, send the link to tony@startupdigest.com.

StartupDigest Marketing is curated by: 
Tony Pham – VP of Marketing, Life360

 

Resource of the Week

The Business of Infographics
By Mark Smiciklas, Social Media Explorer

Given shortening attention spans and the premium placed on sharing, it is no surprise that infographics are increasing in popularity. In order to produce one that meets your goals (e.g. gaining mindshare), develop a format that will allow you to tell a simple story. As there are a variety of approaches, consider the style that will match your startup’s voice and how you can innovate on existing examples of data visualization. 

 

 

Past Resources

Hacking the App Stores
By Tyler York

 

 

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Marketing, the members-only weekly guide for making marketing meaningful to your company’s goals.

SEO – I’m guessing most readers know it’s the acronym for search engine optimization, but what does it really mean for your business? When something becomes as assumed as SEO has in marketing, it is easy to gloss over it, which is why this week’s recommended reading walks you through how to leverage great content.If you have a startup marketing resource you’d like to share, send the link to tony@startupdigest.com.

StartupDigest Marketing is curated by: 
Tony Pham – VP of Marketing, Life360

Great Content for SEO: Simpler than You Ever Imagined

By Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz

If you ask people about SEO, “links” is probably one of the first words that will come to mind. However, don’t underestimate the power of content. Rand Fishkin at SEOmoz gives 1-2-3 steps to figuring out what people want to find when they search for something, and crucially, what would make the page they land on worth sharing. Once you have a good sense of what people want, give it to them! 

Past Resources

Hacking the App Stores

By Tyler York
 
The Fourth Lie: I Don’t Watch the Competition

By Joe Chernov

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What’s Going on in the Vienna Startup Community

Startup Show & Tell (Community)
When: Monday, October 10 – 19:00
Where: Metalab – Rathausstrasse 6, 1010

This month’s regular meeting of folks working on a few startups in Vienna and around the World. Meet, greet and discuss lean startups, projects and prototypes.

 

The first social branding conference in Austria, where brands connect with digital marketers to discuss topics ranging from Facebook, to Twitter, to Google and everything in-between.

 

Journalism for hackers brings together developers and journalists for a highly compressed guide to the way media works.

 

Bringing together the podcasters around Austria to discuss and revive the fading podcast scene.

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!Happy Thanksgiving – I hope you are all extremely satiated and filled with enough Tryptophan to keep you in a coma for most of the day! If by chance you’re not reading this on your mobile phone, outside, in the amazing and warm sun (that has somehow returned) … get outside and squeeze in another day of summer!

This week is packed with events — whether you want to geek-out, network and meet other folks in the community or listen to some great keynotes — there’s something in the mix for you. Wednesday evening brings both DemoCamp 30 (I can’t believe you’ve reached 30 already!) and Toronto Tech Meetup.

There are a number of upcoming events finally showing up in the calendar and next week there are two big ones — E-commerce Camp8 (which is sponsored by OrderDynamics, a super-innovative e-commerce platform that everyone should know about) and HTML5 Meet & Learn. In other good news, Startup Weekend Toronto is back on Nov 18-20, 2011 to officially close Global Entrepreneurship Week and is part of the Global Startup Battle! If you haven’t heard of Startup Weekend, it involves local developers, marketers, designers, enthusiasts and who join forces to start companies in just 54 hours.Please let us know if we’re missing any key events and we’ll be glad to include them in future digests through our submission form.

-Josh

 

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

BlackBerry Developer Group
When: October 10 @ 5:30pm
Where: Xtreme Labs Office (9th Floor), 69 Yonge St. #900, Toronto

We are excited to host Tim Neil, Manager of BlackBerry WebWorks, from RIM to present on Ripple/Github and WebWorks platform roadmap. Group feedback will be collected and presented to RIM. This will allow the developer community and Research In Motion to be actively engaged in continuous development improvement activities.

 

We are going to kick off this new user group in style with some lively discussion around Amazon technology. Agenda includes: Model Metrics & Amazon Web Services overview; Customer success story by Augusto Rosa of Shaw Media; and Customer success story by Brent Hughes of Antic Entertainment.

 

Keynote speaker is Elmer Sotto who is the Head of Growth for Facebook Canada, where he is responsible for setting strategy to further grow and engage the Canadian user base. He also helps key strategic partners understand and leverage the Facebook platform.

The goal at DemoCamp is to provide a platform for local companies to launch, get product or pitch feedback, establish a presence for recruiting as well as help with PR and social media awareness. We aim to gather highly connected and talented entrepreneurs, developers, designers, marketers, investors and others to watch and critique entrepreneurs in a safe environment.

 

Presenting are Scanly.ca, where student discounts are a scan away; PMRobot is project management for custom development companies, and Lumasonix, where they are developing next generation equipment for the early detection of cancer. Lumasonix’s approach uses Photo-Acoustic Computed Tomography (PACT) technology to develop a full 3D volume image.

 

It’s been an exciting few months for Ladies Learning Code. We started this past June with a tweet, and three pretty successful events later…we think it’s time to celebrate! Whether you’re a lady who wants to learn to code, a member of our wonderful developer a community, a man or woman in tech or just a fan of what we’re up to…we’d love it if you would join us on October 13th as we celebrate our official launch!

 

Is your business looking for more information on how to develop your tablet strategy? Have you started deploying tablets and are looking to better understand the full range of uses? Do you want to see the latest developments in tablet technologies? If you answered yes to any of these questions then join TELUS for the special event: Tablets. Built for business in T.O. with guest speaker TELUS SMB President Peter Green.

 

Unlike any other FITC event, the format of ETA puts attendees across the table and in discussion with each of the presenters. Thirty-minute presentations are followed by twenty-minute discussions at round tables; with each presenter changing tables every hour. This format provides unparalleled access to real conversations with all of the presenters, something virtually impossible at big events.

This exclusive and intimate event has been designed for creative directors, strategists, c-suite executives and the best of the best in advertising and technology.

 

 

Top Upcoming Toronto Startup Events

Oct 17 - EcommerceCamp8 – Innovative Mobile Apps: Ecommerce Solutions
Oct 17 - Toronto Mobile UX Group
Oct 18 - Rise of the Business User: Enterprise IT and the effect of consumerization
Oct 20 - HTML5 Meet & Learn
Oct 24 - CloudCampTO
Oct 24 - X-Summit
Oct 25 - DevCamp Toronto
Oct 26 - Entrepreneurship 101 – Marketing for Tech Startups – Getting the fundamentals right
Oct 26 - AndroidTO
Oct 26-30 - DigifestTO
Nov 9 - AccelerateTO
Nov 9 – Entrepreneurship 101: Product Development
Nov 18-20 – Toronto StartupWeekend
Nov 30 – Entrepreneurship 101: Board of Directors and Other Advisors

 

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Marketing, the members-only weekly guide for making marketing meaningful to your company’s goals.

While the post below from David Hornik of August Capital is from 2006 (note the reference to Tickle), his point is as true now as it was then. When it comes to startup marketing, unlike other aspects of the company like finance or engineering, everyone (including the VC) seems to have an opinion.

 

If you have a startup marketing resource you’d like to share with your fellow readers, please send the link to me at tony@startupdigest.com.

StartupDigest Marketing is curated by: 
Tony Pham – VP of Marketing, Life360

 

Resource of the Week

VCs are Marketing Geniuses
By David Hornik, VentureBlog

I empathize with anyone doing marketing at a startup who has wondered, “I don’t give developers feedback on how they’re coding, so why does it seem like everyone has something to say when it comes to marketing?”

One of my thoughts from reading the post is, if you’re really being honest, don’t you sometimes have opinions on product flow (which I’m sure your UI/X person can’t get enough of)? After taking a step back, you can better appreciate that getting perspectives from other disciplines can be quite valuable.

Part of the fun of startups is that there is a lot to learn from each other while trusting each person to do what s/he is best at.

 

 

Past Resources

Connect Emotionally to Boost Sales
via Neuromarketing

 

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Good Morning,I hope you had a better weekend than my fantasy football team had. Those poor Colts… To make up for the emotional rollercoaster that is the NFL, there are a ton of great startup events this week.For all you startup marketers out there, be sure to follow the #ET11 hashtag while the ExactTarget Connections conference is going on. Then, get yourself to Indy.rb and Tech Thursday later in the week.To top everything off, I’d love it if you could join us in Columbus for the TEN Conference, where I’ll be speaking (about startup marketing) along with a stellar lineup of other presenters. You can still get a discounted ticket if you’re a member of Verge.

When you register for TEN, simply put “$229″ in the Registration Amount Due box and “VERGE” in the Referral box to receive the discounted rate.

Person You Should Meet
There are a ton of remarkable people in the Indy startup scene. Here’s someone worth
getting to know:

James Burnes
James Burnes is founder and Senior Mobile Strategist of Mobiltopia, a venture of ProjectBrilliant, an innovation and digital strategy consulting firm he founded that consults to a variety of B2B and B2C public and private businesses. Follow James here.

For newcomers: StartupDigest is an events list, created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, that is focused on the needs of startups in Indianapolis. Please send ideas and feedback to me at mhunckler@thestartupdigest.com.

 

Indianapolis StartupDigest is curated by:
Matt Hunckler – Founder of Repurify

 

 

Indianapolis StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
Four days left to enter Global Entrepreneurship Week’s Startup Open competition sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation. Winners could win a trip to Liverpool and meet global entrepreneur experts or a year’s mentoring by Redbox founders. Sept. 15, 2011 is the deadline. Learn more here and submit your startup here.

 

What’s Going on in the Indianapolis Startup Community

Connections 2011
When: Tuesday-Thursday
Where: JW Marriott

Connections an annual event hosted by ExactTarget where more than 3,000 of the
world’s top marketing minds will gather to ignite new ideas through: 55+ breakout sessions, 10 educational tracks, industry certifications, and world-renowned keynote speakers. Connections is completely sold out, but you can follow along with a lot of the conversation on twitter: #ET11.

Indy.rb — The Indianapolis Ruby Brigade
When: Wednesday, September 14, 7:00 PM
Where: nFrame Disaster Recovery, 550 Congressional Blvd. Carmel, IN

A group that meets once a month to chat about Ruby on Rails and the Ruby programming language. The presentations are good. The company and conversation is even better. Don’t miss this one.

TEN Conference
When: Thursday, September 15
Where: The Commons Center, Columbus, IN

Join other entrepreneurs in learning from some of Indiana’s best and upcoming entrepreneurs, alongside of Ari Weinzweig, founder of Zingerman’s Delicatessen. The Entrepreneurial Network (TEN), a consortium of more than 160 Indiana company founders, has created the TEN Conference, a day-long event that will present ten of the top Indiana entrepreneurs in a high-impact, 25-minute talk format. Each founder will reveal what discoveries they have made in the process of growing their companies.

Tech Thursday: Featuring Mike Langellier, Co-Founder & CEO of MyJibe
When: Thursday, September 15, 5:00 PM
Where: Baker and Daniels LLP, 600 E. 96th St.

Mike Langellier’s vision for a better money management software and model for engaging with financial advice was the inspiration and is the ongoing driver behind MyJibe. Come to this special Tech Thursday to learn about MyJibe and Mike’s entrepreneurial journey.