Below is an archived version of the San Diego StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in San Diego.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

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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 San Diego Startup Community

CommNexus Near Field Communication
When: Tue, Dec 6, 5:30-7:30pm
Where: 6290 Sequence Drive San Diego

Interesting panel discussion on Near Field Communications (NFC) technology and how it is creating a new wave of opportunities in the mobile space.

conflUX and the UX Bookclub are joining forces to discuss Luke Wroblewski’s book, Mobile First, which argues that Internet applications should be designed for mobile first. Looks interesting!

The Business & Entrepreneurship Center at MiraCosta College is hosting a 3-minute elevator pitch contest, where college students can try to persuade a panel of “Angel Investors” to choose their business idea.

San Diego Tech Cocktail mixer is a great place to check out emerging San Diego startups as well as hang with startup folks.

Below is an archived version of the Miami StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Miami.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

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Miami StartupDigest is curated by:
Seth Elliott – Founding partner at the Apheleon Group, Founder of Eurek.Us and Co-Founder of The Startup Forum

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

What’s Going on in the Miami Startup Community

The Launchpad: Is Your Business Idea Feasible? (Free)
October 3, 12:30 PM
University of Miami, 1306 Stanford Dr., Coral Gables FL

Just because you have a great idea doesn’t mean that the market is ready for it, that it is economically viable, or that you are the right person (or team) to carry out that idea. Join The Launch Pad as we explore what business feasibility means, and how you analyze and determine whether your great new idea is feasible in your hands.

John Studdard, long time Webmondayer and Drupal Enthusiast Extraordinaire is going to talk about Drupal in the Public Sector. OpenPublic is a distribution of Drupal code – a compilation of open source modules, themes, and features that together, make up the foundation of a web site built for the public sector. It does not have everything that every public sector organization ever needs. Rather, it has a foundation of common elements that create an extensible base for building an excellent public sector site. John will also be announcing the upcoming Drupal Camp South Florida, which will take place on October 22nd at the Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale.

MobileMonday-Miami is BACK! Join us on Monday, October 3 at 7 PM to hear some great speakers talk about Mobile Payments & Mobile Commerce.

Are you lost in the sea of possibilities in Social Media? In this workshop we show you how easy it is to do-it-yourself, with a little help of some tools. Learn about: “Listening” Tools -Twitter helpers – Facebook Apps.

Two presentations this month as follows: Timothy Dion, CIO of Sensei, will discuss Revenue Strategies in mHealth, and Matthew Shuchman, author of How to Talk to Your Android, will present an Overview of the Mobile Payments Ecosystem.

This month Refresh Mobile will feature Aubrey Swanson, who will share with us her experiences while working on TrialPad, from a non-developer point of view. TrialPad is an application for lawyers made by Lit Software, that has been a stable presence in the top 20 grossing applications for the business category since its launch.

Oliver is going to do a presentation of Basic Photography tips under linux, Creating a USB install media of Fedora and a quick view of Fedora 16 Beta and gnome 3.2

Top Upcoming Miami Startup Events

October 10 – The Launchpad: SWOT and 5 Forces (Free)
October 13 - The Launch Pad: Perfect Your Pitch (Free)
October 13 – Social Media Club Palm Beach (Free)

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

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Ottawa StartupDigest is curated by:
Rob Woodbridge – Founder, Untethered Mobile
Vahid Jozi – CEO, Igloosity

What’s Going on in the Ottawa Startup Community

Mobile Monday Ottawa
When: Monday, September 19, 6-8PM
Where: Mercury Grove World Headquarters

Ever wonder what it takes to start, build and run a company in the mobile space? Wonder no more. Come hear from three mobile industry veterans (with the scars to prove it) as they talk about slaying the carriers, teaching your children and building tools to build apps.

Ottawa will bring together the investors, entrepreneurs and the most forward-thinking companies shaping the marketplace today. Join us for a night of free networking, the opportunity to connect with key leaders, and a chance to hear from industry experts during our exclusive CIX Meet Up panel discussion on Future-Proofing: Tech Tools and Trends Every Business Needs to Know About.

Top Upcoming Ottawa Startup Events

September 28 – execTALKS
September 29 – Startup Drinks
September 30 – Zone5ive Marketing Forum

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Happy Friday All!

We hope you enjoyed the short week. Vas and I just got back from New York where we were celebrating the opening of Accel’s NYC Office. It is amazing how much the NYC tech seen has progressed in a relatively short period of time. Anyways, we kick off this week’s mobile digest with an interesting piece highlighting that for the first time, the total number of Android app downloads will surpass app downloads on iOS. Pew Research comes out with some data that reveals over a quarter of American adults are using mobile and social location based services. Baidu continues to take on Google as they push into the mobile space with their Baidu Yi OS which will definitely butt heads with Android. Not surprisingly, Instagram is growing like crazy. The mobile photo social network surpassed 50 million photo uploads in August bringing the total to more than 200 million. Last but not least, Outblaze, a mobile game developer, is seeing ARPU’s that are 30 percent higher on Android than on iOS. They attribute most of that to customer acquisition methods and less competition on the platform. Have a good weekend and see you next week.

StartupDigest Mobile is curated by:
TJ Nahigian – Associate at Accel Partners - @tjnahigian
Vas Natarajan – Associate at Accel Partners - @natarjv 

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Android is projected to hit 8.1 billion app downloads in 2011 compared to Apple’s projected 6 billion on iOS devices. That is up from 1.4 billion and 2.7 billion downloads on the respective platforms in 2010 according to research firm Ovum.

According to Pew Research, more than a quarter of American adults use mobile or social location based services of some kind. Only 5 percent of cell owners use their phones to check into locations using geosocial services like Foursquare or gowalla. Nine percent of internet users set up social sites like Facebook and Twitter to automatically include their location when using the service.

Currently Baidu is a desktop web browser / search engine that competes with Google Chrome in China. Baidu announced this week that it has plans to conquer the mobile front with Baidu Yi OS, a similar mobile OS to Google’s Android.

While I’m not sure if Mike Arrington is an investor, I don’t think these stats are fabricated, but they are certainly impressive. It took 10 months for Instagram to hit 200 million photos when it took Flickr almost 2 years to hit 100 million photos.

Outblaze, a Hong Kong-based mobile game developer that has reached 30 million installs across its titles, has seen ARPU’s that are 30 percent higher on Android than on iOS. While only 20 percent of its downloads are coming from Android, they are pushing hard to get that ratio closer to 50/50.

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

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Dallas StartupDigest is curated by:
Chris Bond - Co-founder RentSavvy

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Kauffman’s website Entrepreneurship.org is a free online site chock full of content and resources for entrepreneurs, business mentors, investors and anyone in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Content ranges from information entrepreneurs need to launch a company to policies and research that has been conducted regarding entrepreneurship. Check it out at www.entrepreneurship.org.

What’s Going on in the Dallas Startup Community

Dallas iPhone Developers – Marketing Your App – Ways, Means & Challenges
When: Mon., August 29, 5:30pm
Where: Alcatel-Lucent Innovation Lab, Executive Briefing Center Building 660, 660 Data Drive, Plano, TX

Competition is fierce in the mobile space and each market has its own dynamics. This meeting will discuss the varying techniques and strategies of Mobile Marketing. We’ll learn about: Market behavior for the App Store and Android Market – how the ranking algorithm’s work, The impact of Apple’s recent changes to kill PPI services, the “sticky factor” inherent in the Android Market, and other promotional methods.

So, maybe your company isn’t at IPO stage yet, but there’s still lots to do to take your startup to the next level. 5 Across returns this week, and after visiting a similar event in Boston, I’m excited to realize how similar Lexington’s events and informal side conversations are to those in a more prevalent startup town. Conclusion: Location doesn’t matter. Just. Go. Win!

Lexington StartupDigest is curated by:
Nick Such – CEO of AwesomeTouch, Founder of bikeKY, Director of Labs at Awesome Inc.

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What’s Going on in the Lexington Startup Community

IN2LEX Mobile Developers Meetup
When: Mon, June 20, 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Where: Base 163, 163 E. Main St, downtown Lexington

Meet with a group of local developers who work in the mobile space. Topics range from iOS and Android to cross-platform mobile web strategies.

5 Across pitch contest #3
When: Wed, June 22, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Where: Awesome Inc, 348 E. Main St, downtown Lexington

Lexington’s bi-monthly startup pitch contest returns for the third meeting of 2011. 5 pitches, 5 minutes per pitch, $500 to the winner. Good crowd for networking even if you’re not on the pitch stage.

Top Upcoming Lexington Startup Events

June 30 – OpenLex meetup
July 21 – Game Jam