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A lot of good events this week. From a mobile hackathon, Ruby Brigade, TeXchange, and Startup Nights to SparkEd and Alex Muse’s birthday. Also, remember that if you’re applying to the TechStars Cloud program (which has heavy mentorship by our local SoftLayer) — applications are due by November 7.

Get out there, make a difference!

Chris Bond

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What’s Going on in the Dallas Startup Community

Ruby Brigade – Event driven programming with event machine

When: Tuesday, Nov 1, 7-9pm

Where: Improving Enterprises, 16633 Dallas Parkway, Ste 110, Dallas, TX 75001

This month they’ll look at creating database connections from Plain Ol’ Ruby and then event-driven programming with EventMachine. What is event-driven programming, and how do you write event driven apps?

TeXchange

When: Wednesday, Nov 2, 5:30pm – 8:30pm

Where: UT Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080

DFW Member showcase. Discover the innovation that is going on in your local community, and explore what it means to be a part of Dallas’ premier technology networking association by attending the first-ever TeXchange Member Showcase. Open to everyone — Free registation includes appetizers and a drink ticket.

Startup Nights

When: Wednesday, Nov 2, 6pm – Thu, November 3, 2am

Where: Cohabitat,2517 Thomas St., Dallas, TX

StartupNights is an open house, coworking, startup meetup, jam session, and community gathering all rolled into one evening a week!

SparkEd

When: Thursday, Nov 3, 6:30pm – 9:30pm

Where: Museum of Nature & Science (Fair Park), S. 2nd Ave. & Grand Ave.,Dallas, TX 75210

Bring a focus to educational innovation in Dallas. How often do you get to brainstorm with a group of smart, random individuals? If you can’t remember the last time you did, bring your ideas and an open mind to the brainstorming event of the season.

Representatives of educational organizations, both for-profit and non-profit, will bring their challenges to a group of un-like-minded individuals who are filled with good ideas and a desire to help. After short presentations by three organizations, interested participants will join members of the SMU Innovation Gym to ideate solutions to the challenge of their choice in one of Dallas’ most unique settings. This is a pitch-free stage so you won’t have to worry about being solicited for a donation or finding a monetary solution to a problem.

Startup Happy Hour 2.0 / Alex’s Birthday

When: Friday, Nov 4, 7pm

Where: Whirlyball, 3115 West Parker Road, Dallas, TX

Alex Muse is turning 40 and to celebrate he is hosting a party. Come enjoy a few games of WhirlyBall and LaserTag to commemorate my 40th year here on the planet earth.

AT&T Mobile App Hackathon

When: ·Saturday, Nov 5, 10am – 9pm

Where: AT&T Foundry, 2900 West Plano Pkwy, Plano TX 75075

Dev-ing. Mobile. Cloud. APIs. Good food. Awesome prizes. Interested in building your own app? This hackathon will introduce you the the latest cutting edge tools to deploy your own app with a website backend, fully hosted in the cloud. Alternatively, you can come pitch your idea and scout for developer talent, who can help you build your app. Short lightning talks in the morning so you can learn something new and dev support from Apigee, AT&T, Sencha and Alcatel Lucent all day.

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Good Morning all,

-Janova– New Albany Company Recognized as One of 50 Most Promising Startups from Around the World
-Congrats! – Columbus Region Recognized as Smart21 Intelligent Community of 2012 by the Intelligent Community Forum.
-This Friday Oct. 28 – WakeUp StartUp — How many times have you been sitting on the killer concept but lacked the advice, council, mentorship and the INVESTMENT to make it happen?
-Get inspired – Buy your tickets for TedXColumbus on 11.11.11.

This Wednesday, check out Ohio’s largest statewide gathering of startups at the TechLife Startup Showcase on Oct. 26. 50+ startups from Cinci, Cleveland, Columbus, and Athens.

As always, thank you for subscribing and we would like to hear your feedback to continually improve the digest.  Please let us know if you have an event you would like us to feature or any feedback by emailing ben@startupdigest.com.

Have a great week!

Ben
@bblanquera
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Ben Blanquera – TechLife Columbus

 

 

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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 Columbus Startup Community

Startup Founders Mixer
When: Friday Oct 28 6pm
Where: TechColumbus 1275 Kinnear Road Columbus

Meet other Startups Founders and use this opportunity to:
1. Rave about your startup (Please email andi@eevent.com if you are interested to present about your startup asap)
2. Get instant and honest feedback
3. Find and provide help to others

 

Please join us for a Dublin International Business Assistance Center panel event where we’ll discuss preparedness for global business –- looking at strategy considerations, importance of proper due diligence, market entry/exit considerations, and other matters for general global awareness. We will also discuss the critical aspect of governance and compliance, including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anti-corruption (e.g., U.K. Bribery Act) compliance measures for being a good global citizen. The panel includes a diversity of global experience from Fortune 200 global legal, compliance and governance; entrepreneurial and private equity ventures; chief financial expertise from a privately held coffee and spice company operating in Southeast Asia and Central America; EU legal expertise in global capital markets; executive and legislative lobbying considerations to further a domestic-to-global agenda. For anyone doing business globally, or considering global markets, we will have a vibrant and open forum to share your interests.

 

 

Top Upcoming Columbus Startup Events

11/11 – TEDx Columbus
11/18 – M3 – Mobile Development Conference

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

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Good morning all,

• A big shout out to the Columbus StartupDigest Readers - did you know you’re #4 globally?
• Coming Oct. 28 – WakeUp StartUp - How many times have you been sitting on the killer concept but lacked the advice, council, mentorship and the INVESTMENT to make it happen?
• Check out Ohio’s largest statewide gathering of startups at the TechLife Startup Showcase on Oct. 26 - 50+ startups from Cinci, Cleveland, Columbus, and Athens

As always, thank you for subscribing and we would like to hear your feedback to continually improve the digest.  Please let us know if you have an event you would like us to feature or any feedback by emailing ben@startupdigest.com.
Have a great week!

Ben
@bblanquera

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Ben Blanquera – TechLife Columbus

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One day left for U.S. college graduates with innovative business ideas to apply to the Kauffman Foundation’s Global Scholars Program, newly expanded to include U.S. scholars. You’ll learn and network with an international group of aspiring entrepreneurs from January through June 2012. Apply here by Oct. 17, 2011.

What’s Going on in the Columbus Startup Community

DEC Presents: Joint Ventures, Avenues for Business Growth

When: Thurs Oct20 10:15am

Where: Dublin Entrepreneur Center 7003 Post Road Dublin

Joe Keglewitsch will discuss how joint ventures can be a cost-effective (and less capital intensive) way to grow your business. Joe will outline different ways joint ventures can be used to achieve this end and the key terms and considerations to be addresssed when entering into a joint venture. Joint ventures is another potential avenue for business owners to grow or strengthen their business. You will learn the basic knowledge that you would need to negotiate the basic terms of a joint venture and to help identify problems to be avoided.

Note: Please follow included directions — MapQuest, GPS, and other direction services will direct you to another location!

Code Camp

When: Sat Oct 22 8:00am

Where: TechColumbus 1275 Kinnear Road Columbus

Code Camp is a relatively new type of community event (following the Code Camp Manifesto) where developers learn from their peers. All are welcome to attend and speak. Code Camps have been wildly successful elsewhere, and we’re going to bring that success to central Ohio. Sessions will range from lightning talks to chalk talks to more formal presentations.

Top Upcoming Columbus Startup Events

10/26 – TechLife Startup Showcase

10/26-27 – TechTomorrow 2011

11/11 – TEDx Columbus

For newcomers: StartupDigest Reading List is the members-only weekly email newsletter of the best articles in the startup world.

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Welcome back to the StartupDigest Reading List, the members-only guide to what you need to read in the startup world every week. 

Below are some articles to teach you the basics of launching, Angels vs VC’s, finding mentors, and getting started with Ruby.

On to this week’s reading list!

- Chris

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What You Need to Read This Week

All good things come from launching
By John Cromartie

We editorialized the title a bit, but the lesson stays the same: launch, launch, launch, and launch. It’s the only way you will learn.

 

Angels vs. Venture Capitalists
By Ben Horowitz

A good lesson from the great Ben Horowitz on the differences between angels and VC’s.

 

How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code
By Dan Shipper

A personal story about how Dan followed story #1 on this reading list.

 

Why successful people don’t want to mentor you
By Ramit Sethi

Here is how you ask (and don’t ask) for mentorship from others.

Learn Ruby The Hard Way
By Rob Sobers

Rob translated Zed Shaw’s amazing beginner’s course, Learning Python the Hard Way, into Ruby. If you are one of the thousands of business guys looking for a technical co-founder right now, take this course so you actually have a clue.