Silicon Valley StartupDigest – November 21, 2011

22/11/2011

Below is an archived version of the Silicon Valley StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Silicon Valley.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

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Sorry for sending this out late! Happy Thanksgiving week :) It’s pretty quiet around the holiday but be sure to check out all of the upcoming events next week.- Chris

Silicon Valley StartupDigest is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest
Santiago Zavala – Partner, Mexican.vc

 

 

Silicon Valley 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 Silicon Valley Startup Community

Audio And Music Hacking (Free)
Tuesday, November 22 @ 6pm | Mountain View
A small gathering for audio and music hackers who want to share ideas, projects and learn from each other.

 

Android Boot Camp @ AppNation (Free with pass)
Wednesday, November 30 | San Francisco

An Android Boot Camp inside of Appnation with 200 complimentary expo passes available. First-come, first-served.

 

 

Marketing for Startups (Free)
Wednesday, November 30 @ 5:30pm | Mountain View

An educational talk about gaining traction with Rand Fishkin, who started SEOMoz.

 

Tech Cocktail ($20)
Wednesday, November 30 @ 6:30pm | San Francisco

A mixer and demo event. They are still looking for startups to showcase so apply on the site if you are interested.

 

 

Women 2.0 Pitch (Application Date)
Deadline is November 30

Pitch is Women2.0′s biggest event. Apply to pitch your startup at the event.

 

Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner (Free)
Thursday, December 1 @ 5:30pm | San Francisco

Meet other girl founders and hackers over dinner.

 

Persevere or Pivot? ($25)
Thursday, December 1 @ 6:30pm | San Francisco

An event around the decision to pivot or not with Simon Tisminezky, co-founder of Speeddate.com

 

Women 2.0 Founder Friday (Free)
December 2 @ 6pm | Palo Alto

A mixer hosted by Women2.0 and Jen O’Neal, Co-Founder of Tripping. Event is open to both guys and girls.

 

 

 

Top Upcoming Silicon Valley Startup Events
December 2 – Warm Gun: Designing Happiness
December 3-4 – AngelHack (25% off with SUDigest)
December 6 – Silicon Valley New Tech
December 6 – What Startup Employees Should Know About Their Equity
December 8 – Pitchcrawl SJ
December 14 – Q&A panel of Food Startup Founders
December 16 – Life 3.0: Companies that Change the Way We Live
January 10 – Pitchcrawl SF
January 19 – Startup Exits: Early Stage M&A (25% off with StartupDigest25)

 

 

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Silicon Valley StartupDigest – November 14, 2011

15/11/2011

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

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An awesome mix of events this week including “Women Who Code” coming down to Silicon Valley for a hack night. Enjoy :)- Chris
 
Silicon Valley StartupDigest is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest
Santiago Zavala – Partner, Mexican.vc
 
 
Silicon Valley StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
Global Entrepreneurship Week kicks off today. Be among the millions of people in 123 countries celebrating, networking and learning about entrepreneurship. Find an event near you or plan your own. Visit gewusa.org for U.S. info. or unleashingideas.org for all other countries.

 
 

What’s Going On in the Silicon Valley Startup Community

 

SecondMondays (Free)
Monday, November 14 @ 5:30pm | San Francisco
SecondMarket is hosting a Monday Night Football session. If you’re into football, this will be a cool way to meet other entrepreneurs.
 
Women Who Code: Hack Night (Free)

Monday, November 14 @ 6pm | Mountain View

Bring a laptop, charger, and something you want to build or learn.

 

Silicon Valley Founder Night Out with Founders Institute (Free)

Monday, November 14 @ 8pm | Palo Alto

Hang out with some Founder Institute graduates and learn more about their program.

 

Organized Crime vs. Agile Startups ($40)

Tuesday, November 15 @ 6pm | Stanford

Cyber crime costs corporations and individuals more than $1 trillion annually. Come learn more about this market.

 

Percona Toolkit (Free)

Tuesday, November 15 @ 6:30pm | San Francisco

Check out a talk about the new percona toolkit, how to migrate to it and generally learn more about percona.

 

Continuous Deployment at Mozilla (Free)

Tuesday, November 15 @ 6:30pm | Stanford

Come and learn how the continuous deployment process came into existence at Mozilla.

 

Know Your Engines: How to Make Your JavaScript Fast (Free)

Tuesday, November 15 @ 6:30pm | Mountain View

Learn how to make your JavaScript run as fast as possible! Understand more about the way that the system compiles, optimizes and runs your code.

 

Solid State Startups (Free)

Tuesday, November 15 @ 7pm

Come and meet some other hackers who love building stuff in the real world.

 

Bootstrapping Your Startup (Free)

Wednesday, November 16 @ 7pm | Berkeley

A session about bootstrapping with the Persian Tech Entrepreneurs group and Startup @ Berkeley.

 

Cal Entrepreneurship Expo (Free)

Thursday, November 17 @ 6:30pm | Berkeley

Steve Blank will be the keynote speaker.

 

StartupOnomics: Design that drives Action (Free)

Thursday, November 17 @ 7pm | San Francisco

A talk about design with Bryan Zmijewski, founder of Zurb.

 

Designers + Geeks ($15)

Thursday, November 17 @ 7pm | San Francisco

A talk about why people fall in love with products with Chris Clark from Square.

 

Lytro Demo (Free)

Friday, November 18 @ 4:30pm | Mountain View

Come and check out the Lytro, the light field camera everyone is talking about.

 

Synthesizer Enthusiasts Meetup (Free)

Sunday, November 20 | Mountain View

A show and tell session where you will be able to check out what other synthesizer enthusiasts are doing.

 

 

Top Upcoming Silicon Valley Startup Events

November 30 – Application date for Women2.0 Pitch

November 30 – Silicon Valley Pitch Bootcamp

December 1 – Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner

December 2 – Warm Gun: Designing Happiness

December 3-4 – AngelHack

December 8 – Pitchcrawl SJ

January 10 – Pitchcrawl SF

January 19 – Startup Exits: Early Stage M&A 25% off with StartupDigest25

 

 

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Silicon Valley StartupDigest – October 31, 2011

31/10/2011

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

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Happy Halloween! There are a bunch of awesome events this week and they are all spread throughout the week (yay!).I’ll be going to the Reid Hoffman event on Wednesday. If you decide to go too, feel free to come by and say hi :)- ChrisSilicon Valley StartupDigest is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest
Santiago Zavala – Partner, Mexican.vc

 

 

Silicon Valley StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
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 Silicon Valley Startup Community

Hack Night for Beginners (Free)
Tuesday, November 1 @ 7pm | San Francisco
A beginners workshop to learn programming in Ruby.

 

New Game: HTML5 Game Conference (15% off with html5rocks)
Tuesday, November 1 & 2 | San Francisco

This is a 2 day conference where you will be able to learn about html5 and game development.

 

ER Accelerator Demo Day (Free)
Tuesday, November 1 @ 6pm | Mountain View

Entrepreneurs Roundtable is a new accelerator program in NYC and is doing a demo day for their companies this week in Mountain View.

 

Reid Hoffman & Brian Chesky Talk Two Generations of Tech ($30)
Wednesday, November 2 @ 7pm | San Francisco

Brian Chesky is a co-founder of Airbnb and Reid Hoffman started LinkedIn, is a partner at Greylock, and previously worked at Paypal.

 

Titanium Developer Meetup (Free)
Wednesday, November 2 @ 6:30pm | Mountain View

Come and meet a lot of Titanium developers, check out some cool demos and see the live premiere of the V8 runtime for Android.

 

Swedish Startups Demo Night ($45)
Wednesday, November 2 @ 5pm | Stanford

Sweden, where Spotify and Skype came from, will be hosting a demo night of 25 Swedish startups.

 

Startup Happy Hour (Free)
Thursday, November 3 @ 5pm | San Jose

A startup happy hour in San Jose with beer and tacos.

 

Drink Entrepreneurs (Free)
Thursday, November 3 @ 6:30pm | San Francisco

Apéro entrepreneurs, a big entrepreneurship meetup in Paris, is hosting their first meetup in San Francisco.

 

Rails + Backbone.Js: A Workshop (Free)
Sunday, November 6 @ 1pm | Mountain View

Come to the Hacker Dojo and learn from Ryan Dy from Pivotal Labs on how to build a Rails application with a Backbone.js backend! This is a laptops out, hands on workshop.

 

Chinese Internet Influencers ($20)
Monday, November 7 @ 6pm | San Francisco

Learn about the Chinese internet market and meet some of the big name founders and investors visiting from China.

 

The Founder Showcase (15% off with startup_digest)
Tuesday, November 8 @ 4:30pm | San Francisco

A demo event and keynote with Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch and CrunchFund.

 

 

Top Upcoming Silicon Valley Startup Events
November 10 – Introduction to Heroku

November 10 – AWS Start-Up Challenge Finale
November 10 – How Technology is Changing the Face of Fashion
November 11 – Rainmakers: To product market fit and beyond
November 15 – Startup Grind with Scott Heiferman
November 16 – Common Mistakes Founders Make
November 18-20 – Women 2.0′s Startup Weekend

 

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Silicon Valley StartupDigest – September 26, 2011

26/09/2011

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

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A huge congrats this week to Robert Yu, a StartupDigest VIP member who just joined Chirpmeas their Lead Designer :)On to the events!

- Chris

Silicon Valley StartupDigest is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest
Santiago Zavala – Partner, Mexican.vc
 

Silicon Valley StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
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 Silicon Valley Startup Community

From Mobile Apps to Successful Startups #5 (Free)

Tuesday, September 27 @ 5:30pm | Mountain View

A great opportunity to think about the transition from app to startup.

Tuesday, September 27 @ 6pm | Tied House, Mountain View

Short talks about data visualization at a bar. Get the irony?

Crowdsourcing Work Meetup (Free)

Tuesday, September 27 @ 6:30pm | San Francisco

A meetup with speakers and demos by startups in the crowdsourcing space.

OpenStack Meet & Drink: Toast to Diablo! (Free)

Wednesday, September 28 @ 7pm | Sunnyvale

Hear from the openstack team, meet other people using the open stack and visit a cloud data center.

Hackers & Founders – Berkeley (Free)

Thursday, September 29 @ 6pm | Thalassa, Berkeley

Meet with other hackers and founders in the East Bay.

Women Only Hack Night (Free)

Thursday, September 29 @ 6pm | San Francisco

A descriptive event title and great initiative.

Video Hackday (Free)

Saturday, October 1 | San Francisco

A hackathon for the world of video technology for hackers, designers, and videographers.

Video Game-a-palooza! (Free)

Sunday, October 2 | Mountain View

Went to this last month and it was super awesome and super geeky.

Naked Genes of Entrepreneurs (Free)

Tuesday, October 4 @ 6pm | Palo Alto

Strange name but will feature talks from the “startup genome project” + demos from two startups.

Interaction Design For Developers (Free)

Tuesday, October 4 @ 7pm | Mountain View

A deep dive into the psychology of web users.

Women 2.0 Founder Friday (Free)

Friday, October 7 @ 6pm | Palo Alto

A social for women founders with Victoria Ransom, co-founder & CEO of Wildfire Interactive, and Jennifer Lopez & Abby Sturges from CultureKitchenSF.
 

Top Upcoming Silicon Valley Startup Events
October 12 – Sales for Startups
October 18 – Forming a Great Team
October 20 – Designers + Geeks

October 24 – FailCon 2011 (20% off with startupdigest)
Novemver 7 – Startup Grind Meetup hosts Jeff Clavier
November 15 – Startup Grind with Scott Heiferman

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Silicon Valley StartupDigest – September 5, 2011

5/09/2011

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

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After StartupDigest got a design makeover, we created new curator profiles for the StartupDigest curators. Check out mine here. Thanks so much Adrienne Tranfor making this kickass design!

- Chris

Silicon Valley StartupDigest is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest

 

 

Silicon Valley StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
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 Silicon Valley Startup Community

When: Tuesday, September 6 @ 6pm
Where: HackerDojo, Mountain View

An informal hackathon for those interested in the software and hardware side of music and audio.

When: Wednesday, September 7 @ 6pm
Where: SF
Two tech talks on developing for the iOS and the Android platforms.
When: Wednesday, September 7 @ 7pm
Where: Hacker Dojo, Mountain View
Ashish, who has worked at Google and Facebook and is a current member at HackerDojo, will be sharing what he knows about M&A. 

Startup Wekend Mega Party (Free)
When: Wednesday, September 7 @ 6pm
Where: San Francisco

Startup Weekend is hosting a Mega event this weekend thus they are throwing a mega party. The party includes pizza, beer, and a DJ.

StartX Demo Day (Private)
When: Thursday, September 8
Where: Palo Alto

 

StartX, an incubator program for Stanford students, is having their demo days. To request an invite email info@startx.stanford.edu or click on the link for the livestream info.

 

SF Pitch (50% Off)
When: September 8, 2011
Where: SF

A huge startup pitch event at AT&T park. Use StartupDigest20 for 50% off.

Startup Weekend Mega ($99)
When: September 9-11
Where: Mountain View

A Startup Weekend for 3 verticals: health, education, and gaming. Reid Hoffman will be the main speaker for the event.

Cleanweb Hackathon (Free)
When: September 10-11
Where: SF

A hackathon for applying information technology to the big problem of natural resource constraints.

Hackathon @ TechCrunch Disrupt (Free)
When: September 10-11
Where: San Francisco Design Center Concourse

A hackathon and demo competition afterwards. No promises, but previous hackathon winners have gotten a ton of press afterward.

Bio+Tech (Free)
When: Tuesday, September 13 @ 7pm
Where: SF

A meetup for bio folk interested in technology and people interested in the computational problems of the biotech industry. Sounds really interesting.

LeanBack (Free)
When: Wednesday, September 14 @ 6pm
Where: Dogpatch Labs, SF

A demo event with startups in the connect TV, internet video space, and the hardware infrastructure powering the industry.

HTML5 & Mobile Browser-Based Apps (Free)
When: Thursday September 15 @ 6pm
Where: Santa Clara

A discussion about browser based apps with Google, Qualcomm, Appcelerator, and IDC.

Beginning WordPress For Hackers (Free)
When: Thursday, September 15 @ 7pm
Where: HackerDojo, Mountain View

An intro to WordPress, which powers 14.7% of the world’s websites, by a WordPress developer.

Top Upcoming Silicon Valley Startup Events
September 29 – Cloud Influencers Meetup (Private, email alastair.goldfisher@thomsonreuters.com for an invite)
October 4 - Interaction Design For Developers
October 6 – Hipster Launch Party
October 8-9 – Silicon Valley Code Camp

October 12-13 – StackOverflow Dev Days
October 24 – FailCon 2011 (20% off with startupdigest)
Novemver 7 – Startup Grind Meetup hosts Jeff Clavier

 

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Silicon Valley StartupDigest – August 29, 2011

29/08/2011

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

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I noticed that a lot of the events this week are sold out already, and even the upcoming ones are selling out fast. Wonder if this is a sign of good times or a sign of trouble ahead?- Chris

Silicon Valley StartupDigest is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest
 
 

Silicon Valley StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
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 Silicon Valley Startup Community

 

Women Who Code – Hack Night(Free)When: August 31st @ 7pmWhere: SF

This is awesome. Go learn new things and build stuff!

 

SuperHappyDevHouse 46 (Free)

When: Saturday, September 3

Where: HackerDojo, Mountain View

The premier hackathon event that’s intended for creative and curious people interested in technology. Go experience real hacker culture.

 

When: Wednesday, September 7 @ 6pm
Where: SF
Two tech talks on developing for the iOS and the Android platform.
When: Wednesday, September 7 @ 7pm
Where: Hacker Dojo, Mountain View
Ashish, who has worked at Google and Facebook and is a current member at HackerDojo, will be sharing what he knows about M&A.

StartX Demo Day (Private)

When: Thursday, September 8

Where: Palo Alto

StartX, an incubator program for Stanford students, is having their demo days. To request an invite email info@startx.stanford.edu or click on the link for the livestream info.

 

SF Pitch (50% Off)

When: September 8, 2011

Where: SF

A huge startup pitch event at AT&T park. Use StartupDigest20 for 50% off.

 

Startup Weekend Mega ($99)

When: September 9-11

Where: Mountain View

A Startup Weekend for 3 verticals: health, education, and gaming. Also Reid Hoffman will be the main speaker for the event.

 

Cleanweb Hackathon (Free)

When: September 10-11

Where: SF

A hackathon for applying information technology to the big problem of natural resource constraints.

 

 

Top Upcoming Silicon Valley Startup Events
September 29 – Cloud Influencers Meetup (Private, email alastair.goldfisher@thomsonreuters.com for an invite)
October 6 – Hipster Launch Party
October 8-9 – Silicon Valley Code Camp
October 12-13 – StackOverflow Dev Days
October 24 – FailCon 2011 (20% off with startupdigest)

 

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Silicon Valley StartupDigest – August 22, 2011

23/08/2011

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

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A big shoutout this week to the New York City StartupDigest for crossing 10,000 members! 

The New York City StartupDigest was started in December 2009 by Carter Cleveland, who was the first to bring StartupDigest to a city outside of the SF Bay Area. His work inspired us to open up StartupDigest to many more cities (we now cover 67) around the world.

Congratulations to Carter and Frank Denbow, who is now leading the NYC edition with the help of Julia Levy and Satjot Sawhney! We’ll see if they can catch our 21,000+ members in Silicon Valley next :)

On to the events! If you are around this weekend, come have fun with your team at our startup beer pong challenge :)

- Chris

Silicon Valley StartupDigest is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest

 

 

Silicon Valley StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
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 Silicon Valley Startup Community

When: Tuesday, August 23 @ 6pm

Where: Mountain View 

A discussion about how technology is changing government transparency and decision making with Ari Gesher (Palantir), Abhi Nemani (Code for America), Matt Monahan (Inflection) and more. A great event if you are interested in the civic space.

 

FounderDating (Application Date)
When: August 23rd
Where: SF

FounderDating is coming back to the Bay area. It’s an invite-only event to match co-founders together.

 

Learn Steve Blank’s Plan to Demolish the Status Quo in Entrepreneurial Education ($25)
When: Tuesday, August 23 @ 6:30pm
Where: SF

An event about Steve Blank’s new venture, the Lean LaunchPad.

 

Tools to Make Open Data Relevant (Free)
When: Wednesday, August 24 @ 6:30pm
Where: Storify, SF

With many open data sets becoming available, here are some demos and talks about tools you can use to take advantage of them.

 

Introducing Hackers & Founders – San Jose! (Free)
When: Thursday, August 25 @ 6pm
Where: TechShop, San Jose

If you’re a geek in the San Jose area, you don’t want to miss this one. I’ll be there too!

 

Startup Grind Meetup hosts Tony Conrad (Free)
When: Thursday, August 25 @ 7pm
Where: Palo Alto

Tony Conrad is the co-founder of About.me and a partner at True Ventures.

HotPads Open House (Free)
When: Thursday, August 25 @ 6pm
Where: SF

The HotPad team just moved out to SF and they are throwing a party to celebrate!

When: Friday, August 26th

Where: 500Startups, Mountain View 

The DesignerFair is a “science fair” for kickass designers. Designers can show off their work, meet other designers, and attendees can meet designers who they might want to hire, fund, or partner with.

 

Building a Web Business When You Are 15 Years Old (Free)

When: August 26 @ 12pm
Where: Zurb, Campbell

Matt Mickiewicz, who started Sitepoint (which spun off 99designs, Flippa and Learnable) will be talking about his experiences starting and growing his companies.

StartupDigest Beer Pong Tournament (Fun)
When: Saturday, August 27th @ 3pm
Where: Palo Alto

Startups should be fun, so we are hosting a 32-team beer pong tournament to close out the summer! Get one of the last team spots by adding your team info here.

 

Top Upcoming Silicon Valley Startup Events

September 7 - Startup Waffles (Not hosted by us)

September 8 - Pitch San Francisco

September 9-11 - Mega Startup Weekend (20% off with code StartupDigest) < Reid Hoffman was just annouced as the main keynote.

September 10-11 - Clean Web Hackathon
September 29 - Startup Grind Meetup hosts Ben Parr
October 8-9 – Silicon Valley Code Camp

October 12-13 – StackOverflow Dev Days

October 24 – FailCon 2011 (20% off with startupdigest)

 

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Silicon Valley StartupDigest – August 8, 2011

9/08/2011

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

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Startups should be fun, so last month we hosted a startup flip cup tournament at our office/house (check out the epic pictures). To close out the summer, this month we are throwing a startup beer pong tournament. 

We’ll be hosting 32 teams of 2 startup people, so team up with your co-founder, co-worker, or hacker/designer friend. Last time the tickets sold out quick so get your team in asap by applying here.

- Chris

Silicon Valley StartupDigest is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest

 

Silicon Valley StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
Winners of Global Entrepreneurship Week’s Startup Open competition, sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation, could win a trip to Liverpool to hang out with global entrepreneur experts or a year’s worth of mentoring from the founders of Redbox. Learn more about all of the prizes here and submit your startup here.

 

What’s Going On in the Silicon Valley Startup Community

When: Tuesday, August 9 @ 6pm

Where: Mountain View 

Learn how to pitch your game/app to the press and meet Chris Baker (Wired), Jeff Scott (148apps), Dean Takahashi (GamesBeat), Sam Kennedy (IGN), and AJ Glasser (Inside Network).

 

Twilio Developer Meetup (Free)
When: Tuesday, August 9 @ 6:30pm
Where: SF

Learn more about Twilio and their recent product, Twilio Client.

 

TuneIn & appbackr Summer Barbecue (Free)
When: Wednesday, August 10 @ 5:30pm
Where: Palo Alto

Two startups in Palo Alto are putting on a BBQ!

Hackers & Founders – SF (Free)
When: Thursday, August 11
Where: San Francisco

Come hang out with some other hackers and founders and just geek out :)

 

Edu Tech – Teachers Panel (Free)
When: Thursday, August 11 @ 7pm
Where: San Francisco

A very cool event for anyone interested in the education tech space. The group is getting together real educators to talk about the challenge and opportunities of using new tools in the classroom.

Think Outside Social ($15)
When: Thursday, August 11 @ 6:30
Where: SF

Think Outside is an entrepreneurship group out of Stanford. They will be hosting a mixer in SF.

 

Zaarly Startup Crawl (Free)
When: August 11
Where: SF

Zaarly is putting on another startup crawl, this time with MongoDB.

 

HAPI Weekend (Free)
When: August 13-14
Where: SF

A hackathon around API’s! 10 startups will be coming out and helping you get started with their API’s.

 

APIs for App Developers (Free)

When: Monday, August 15 @ 7pm
Where: Palo Alto 

Box.net and Retailigence will be showing off their API’s.

 

Gaming Mechanics – How to Get People to Click on Sh*t (Free)
When: Tuesday, August 16 @ 6:30pm
Where: San Jose

Love the title of this meetup. It’s pretty self explanatory :)

500 Startups Demo Day (Investors only)

When: August 16

500 Startups is hosting a demo day for their summer accelerator batch. Investors can apply for an invite via the link above.

Designers + Geeks ($15)

When: Thursday, August 18 @ 7pm
Where: SF 

This is their second event featuring Manu Kumar from K9 Ventures.

 

Top Upcoming Silicon Valley Startup Events

August 18 – Evernote Trunk Conference (50% Off)

August 21 – Videogame-A-Palooza

October 8-9 – Silicon Valley Code Camp

October 24 – FailCon 2011 (20% off with startupdigest)

September 7 – Startup Waffles (Not hosted by us)

September 8 – Pitch San Francisco

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Taipei StartupDigest – August 1, 2011

2/08/2011

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

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Good Morning Taipei Startups!

Good Morning! Are you using Internet Explorer to view this? A recent study suggests that IE users are likely to be less smart than other browser users. What does everyone think? 

For Newcomers: Taipei StartupDigest is an events list, curated by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, that is laser focused on the needs of startups in Taipei. We aim to bring you the best of what the tech community has to offer in Taipei and from time to time, across Taiwan. If it’s worth going to, you’ll find it here!

Please send feedback and event info to jhill@thestartupdigest.com.

Taipei StartupDigest is curated by:
James Hill

What’s Going on in the Taipei Startup Community

When: Wednesday 3 August, 7.30pm – 9.30pm

Where: Goz Café, 11, Lane 140, Min Sheng East Road Section 3 (MRT Zhongshan Junior High Schoo)

Language: Chinese & English

Google & Android Evangelist Tony Chan (Mountain View, HK, Taipei) will be on hand to explain and promote the use of the Honeycomb mobile platform. This will be a relaxed event for those wishing to learn more about Google’s mobile offerings, and how Taiwanese developers can effectively utilize the newest version of the Android platform.

Top Upcoming Events

8/12-14 – Startup Weekend Taipei (Sold out)

8/14 – PunApp (To be announced)
8/20-21 – COSCUP 2011 (Sold out)
8/22 – Mobile Monday
8/26-27 – Ruby Conf Taiwan (Registration open)

 

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Silicon Valley StartupDigest – August 1, 2011

1/08/2011

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

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Loving all of the vertical specific startup events coming up in the near future. Our food, health, and education systems really need a major overhaul driven by startups. 

- Chris

Silicon Valley StartupDigest is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest

 

 

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Winners of Global Entrepreneurship Week’s Startup Open competition, sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation, could win a trip to Liverpool to hang out with global entrepreneur experts or a year’s worth of mentoring from the founders of Redbox. Learn more about all of the prizes here and submit your startup here.

 

What’s Going On in the Silicon Valley Startup Community

When: Wednesday, August 3 @ 6pm

Where: 500startups, Mountain View 

A meetup for people and startups in the Casto Street (Mountain View) area.

 

Hackers and Founders Present: Eric Ries (Free)

When: Wednesday, August 3 @ 5:30pm
Where: Mountain View 

Eric Ries, who founded the lean startup movement and just finished his first book on the topic of lean startups, is giving a talk this week at Microsoft. There will be free food + drinks too.

 

Startup Weekend Party (Free)
When: Wednesday, August 3 @ 6pm
Where: SF

Startup Weekend is throwing a pre-party for their upcoming event.

 

NewMe Accelerator Demo Day (Investors Only)

When: August 4 

NewMe is an accelerator for minority-led startups. They are having a demo day coming up and if you are an investor follow the link to get an invite.

 

Designers + Geeks Social Meetup (Donations)

When: Thursday, August 4 @ 7pm
Where: San Francisco 

A meetup for designers and geeks. This month’s speaker is Manu Kumar from K9 Ventures.

 

Rubinius / Ruby Hackfest (Free)

When: Friday, August 5
Where: Mountain View

Rubinius is putting on a hackathon and also bringing out some remote-control helicopters for everyone to play with.

 

Teens in Tech Conference (30% Off)

When: Friday, August 5
Where: Palo Alto 

A conference about teens and young entrepreneurs. Speakers include Kevin Hartz (Eventbrite), Robert Scoble, Gregory Koberger (Mozilla), and more.

 

Healthcare Startup Showcase (Application Date)

When: August 9

10 startups will be chosen to present to a group of 200 investors and entrepreneurs in the health space including US CTO Aneesh Chopra and HHS CTO Todd Park. A huge opportunity for founders in the health space.

 

Investing in Food Startups ($25)
When: Wednesday, August 10 @ 6pm
Where: Mountain View

Personally I’ve seen a whole bunch of new food startups pop up and here is the first food centric startup event I’ve noticed. Includes a killer list of investors, corporations, and startups in the food space.

 

Hackers & Founders – SF (Free)
When: Thursday, August 11
Where: San Francisco

Come hang out with some other hackers and founders and just geek out :)

 

Edu Tech – Teachers Panel (Free)
When: Thursday, August 11 @ 7pm
Where: San Francisco

A very cool event for anyone interested in the education tech space. The group is getting together real educators to talk about the challenge and opportunities of using new tools in the classroom.

 

Top Upcoming Silicon Valley Startup Events

August 13 – HAPI Hack Weekend

October 8-9 – Silicon Valley Code Camp
October 24 – FailCon 2011 (20% off with startupdigest)
September 8 – Pitch San Francisco

 

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