Silicon Valley StartupDigest – August 22, 2011
23/08/2011Below is an archived version of the Silicon Valley StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in the Silicon Valley.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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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
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What’s Going On in the Silicon Valley Startup Community
When: Tuesday, August 23 @ 6pm
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
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.
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 9-11 - Mega Startup Weekend (20% off with code StartupDigest) < Reid Hoffman was just annouced as the main keynote.
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)
