StartupDigest Reading List – March 2, 2012

2/03/2012

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We’ve started to organize all of the past articles by topic on our startup articles page. Check out our top three article topics: big ideas, becoming a better programmer, and hiring for startups. 
- Chris

StartupDigest Reading List is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest
Chris Burnor – Lead Engineer, StartupDigest

 

 

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What You Need to Read This Week

Looks matter – good graphic design can compel viewers to process information and use software differently.

 

Wisdom: Business folks believe that conversation solves all problems. Designers believe visualization solves all problems. Engineers believe that optimization solves all problems. Communication mayhem ensues!

 

If you are going to SXSW or any big upcoming conference, this is a must read.

 

Startups can startup anywhere but here’s what you will encounter outside of the major startup hubs.

 

Traction trumps everything
By Gabriel Weinberg

What investors (and press and employees) look for is traction. Traction is real customers for your product or service.

 

Here are a few tips on getting visitors to click and engage, not just view and go away.

 

File system links are great for structuring your application for flexibility and space, but do you know that *nix systems have both hard and soft links?

 

If you’ve read Paul Graham’s essays, you know how much he loves LISP and functional programming, but if one is writing for high performance web services, Java is still one of the fastest languages out there.  How can one take the benefits of LISP and apply them to Java?

 

Mercator: A Scalable, Extensible Web Crawler
By Allan Heydonand Marc Najork

This paper outlines a system for building a scalable web crawler. Even for those who are not trying to take down Google, it is a great way of seeing a case study in designing a scalable system.

 

[Video] Peter Diamandis on Abundance

Peter Diamandis founded the XPrize Foundation and Singularity University. Here’s his talk on why we should be optimistic about the future.

 

See all of the best startup resources here.

 

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StartupDigest Reading List – February 24, 2012

24/02/2012

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One of my friends Craig Montuori who is helping to get the “Startup Visa” legislation passed wrote an awesome post on How can tech startups begin to exercise political muscle in Washington, D.C.
After the SOPA/PIPA debate it’s very important for us to stay on top of all the issues that affect our community and let our voices be heard.

- Chris

StartupDigest Reading List is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest
Chris Burnor – Lead Engineer, StartupDigest

 

 

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What You Need to Read This Week

Fire And Motion
By Joel Spolsky | More articles on attitudes

The key to productivity is to get started. The more you move forward every day, the better chance you will have at winning.

 

Understanding Git Conceptually
By Charles Duan | More articles on coding

Git has become the standard version control system for the startup world, and most of us use it every day, but how well do we really know how to use it?

 

Airbnb UX Wins and Losses
By Jason Shah | More articles on design

A designer’s take on Airbnb’s main landing page and what makes it work well and what doesn’t.

 

Why You Only Need to Test with 5 Users
By Jakob Nielsen | More articles on early products

The best usability tests for learning come from only 5 users. After that it’s just repetitive.

 

There is a myriad of excellent frameworks and libraries for organizing and structuring browser JavaScript, but it is really useful to understand how JS can be structured without the need for any third party code.

 

A tactical guide for buying a domain name.

 

Software is People
By Kenton White | More articles on coding

Understanding that people will be using and building your software is just as important as the code itself.

 

Hackerspaces Aren’t Factories for “Idea” People
By Daniel Miessler | More articles on attitudes

If you’re someone with an idea, take the time to actually learn how to code. Don’t expect a developer to just build something for you.

 

See all of the best startup resources here.

 

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StartupDigest Reading List – February 10, 2012

10/02/2012

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StartupDigest VIP is now open for the best CS and Design internships: http://startupdigest.com/intern- Chris

 

StartupDigest Reading List is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest
Chris Burnor – Lead Engineer, StartupDigest

 

 

StartupDigest Reading List is supported exclusively by:
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What You Need to Read This Week

A post on reddit on fitness that surprisingly has huge implications for being more productive on a daily basis. Start your day off by listing what you want to accomplish and don’t passively read twitter, hacker news, facebook, or reddit.

 

You Are Solving The Wrong Problem
By Aza Raskin | More articles on attitudes

A story about solving the right problem, not just the obvious hard problem.

 

Vim Anti-Patterns
By Tom Ryder

Vim’s minimalism and elegance are hard to learn, but worth the effort. However, even for experienced users, there are common antipatterns that can be fallen into and there’s always more to learn.

 

Designer Toolkit
By the Stanford Design School | More articles on design

An in-depth PDF about the design process and design thinking.

 

The importance of sleep in a startup
By Leo Widrich | More articles on daily life

Productivity doesn’t come in hours; it comes in the amount of energy you have every day.

 

You may have heard of MapReduce, perhaps even tried to slog through Google’s Whitepaper and you know that it was one of the keys to Google’s early successes in massive computing. But what is it and how does one implement it, and most importantly, what do you use it for?

 

Think big things
By Brendan Baker | More articles on big ideas

It’s ok to start small but have big ambitions and set out to solve big problems. Life is too short to work on another groupon clone or social media aggregator.

 

Even the best engineers can become myopic and complacent when it comes to preparation for disaster. Perhaps this is especially true for the best engineers, for whom disasters are rare. Richard Feynman’s personal appendix to the report on the Space shuttle disaster is a great study in how such failures happen and perhaps how they can be prevented.

 

[Video] Life lessons from an ad man
By Roy Sutherland | More startup videos

Many of us are typically quite skeptical of advertising, but sometimes the “intangible value” of your product or service can outweigh its production value.

 

See all of the best startup resources here.

 

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StartupDigest Reading List – February 3, 2012

4/02/2012

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Special heads up for everyone – we will soon be launching a new digest that will feature the most interesting startup in the world every week. 500+ people have already signed up for it in advance. You can sign up too here. Stay tuned :)
Also, we changed up the messaging and process of becoming a StartupDigest VIP. What do you think of it?

- Chris

StartupDigest Reading List is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest
Chris Burnor – Lead Engineer, StartupDigest

 

 

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What You Need to Read This Week

An epic rant on how you should stop being intimidated and just build a product you would use.

 

The Hacker Way

By Eric Ries

Buried within the Facebook’s S-1 filing is a personal message from Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hacker culture.

 

There is a slew of wonderful JavaScript libraries out there to aid in adding dynamism to your webpages. But how do you actually put them together without turning your webpage into a Cthulhuesque nightmare?

 

A look at how investors think about risk in a startup from Brendan Baker, who used to work with AngelList and is now with Greylock Partners.

 

Sometimes profits aren’t always the right answer. Here are the tradeoffs between growth and profit and how to decide which path is right for you.

 

Let’s peak under the hood of Ruby’s run time environment and see how the garbage collector works. While we’re at it, maybe we can help save your application from slowing to a molasses mess.

 

A brief guide to tech internships

By Alexey Komissarouk

An in-depth guide to getting an internship at a startup from Alexey, who interned at Facebook, started the PennApps hackathon, and was an engineer for the Israeli Defense Forces.

 

Love this. We definitely need more articles like this written from a designer’s (and woman’s) perspective.

 

See all of the best startup resources here.

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StartupDigest Reading List – January 27, 2012

27/01/2012

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Last week Brendan McManus re-designed all of our StartupDigest Video pages to make them a little easier on your eyes :)
If you haven’t seen any of our videos before I suggest watching our top 3 talks by Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin, and Peter Thiel.

 - Chris

 

StartupDigest Reading List is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest
Chris Burnor – Lead Engineer, StartupDigest

 

 

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Check out these sketchbook videos on “finding the magic sauce of entrepreneurship” and “three things entrepreneurs do” and more from the Kauffman Foundation.

 

 

What You Need to Read This Week

This really applies to any position you are hiring for. Make sure to be kind to new people meeting your company for the first time.

 

An inside look into what buyers are looking for.

 

strftime.org
by Unknown

Using Python’s date functions and can’t remember if uppercase AM/PM is %A or %p? Sure you could go look it up in the documents and scroll down the page until you find what you want. Or, you could go to strftime.org and get all the info you need on one, gorgeous, simple page.

 

Pinterest’s Sign-Up Process
By Nicholas Carlson

I hate how Business Insider sensationalizes titles but this is a good look at a great sign-up flow. I love how Pinterest keeps their entire process very personal.

 

A 7,000 word essay on the idiosyncrasies of salary negotiation. The key point here is to stop feeling guilty about asking for market compensation.

 

The JS kids these days. What can’t they build in that language we all originally learned about as a way to make dialog boxes follow your mouse around the page? Well, some folks at LinkedIn figured out how to make a full-fledged VNC client in pure Javascript!
 

The tale of 7 failed products. The reoccurring themes: they didn’t build something people would actually pay for, didn’t learn from their users, and got straight-up beat down by the competition.

 

[Audio Only] Interview with Mark Zuckerberg

An interview with Mark Zuckerberg when Facebook had 5 million users, was only for college students, and they had just launched their photos application. It’s pretty amazing to hear Mark sound like many early-stage founders I meet now.

 

See all of the best startup resources here.

 

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StartupDigest Reading List – January 6, 2012

6/01/2012

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This week we have two incredible videos, a technical vidcast, and 6 articles with one from us on how compensation at a startup isn’t much different than a large coproration.
Welcome to the new year!
- Chris

StartupDigest Reading List is curated by:
Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest
Chris Burnor – Lead Engineer, StartupDigest

 

 

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Check out these sketchbook videos on “finding the magic sauce of entrepreneurship” and “three things entrepreneurs do” and more from the Kauffman Foundation.

 

 

What You Need to Read This Week

I’m sure a lot of people have “learning to code” on their new year’s resolution list, but don’t fall into the learn code in 4 hours trap. Learning to code is awesome but takes a lot of hard work.

 

 

Charles Hudson, who is both a founder of Bionic Panda Games and investing partner at SoftTech VC, details out the minimum four things you should update your investors on.

 

How to organize your app’s JavasScript without relying on third party libraries.

 

Don’t worry, have focus, and be nimble. In the post are 5 examples of startups who won the war against the Goliath.

 

Meet people in real life, have a mission people want to join, treat people well, and don’t be stingy with equity or compensation.

 

Oh My ZSH
by Ryan Bates

If you aren’t a Rails Developer or don’t regularly watch RailsCasts, this one’s worth making an exception to watch. Ryan Bates details how to get started in the supremely powerful z-shell using Oh-My-zsh.

 

We asked some of our alumni VIP’s about the difference in compensation between their big corporate job and their new startup. The differences were much smaller than we anticipated.

 

[Video] Peter Thiel on building companies with purpose

A quick talk (Q&A section is long) by Peter Thiel on how he evaluates companies as an investor & entrepreneur.

 

[Video] Bonus Steve Jobs on the early days of NeXT

An awesome old school PBS documentary on Steve Jobs after he was fired from Apple in the middle of starting NeXT. Shows real scenes of Steve conducing meetings, product brainstorming, and motivating the team.

 

See all of the previous resources and articles we’ve featured here.

 

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StartupDigest Reading List – December 16, 2011

17/12/2011

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Last night we visted Causes to hang out with them after they hired our friend Herman Ng through StartupDigest VIP. Check out the awesome view from their office of downtown SF!
- Chris

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Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest

 

 

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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 You Need to Read This Week

What We Look For
By David Lee

David is a partner at SV Angel, Ron Conway’s investment fund.

 

 

Everybody loves to talk about starting new companies (and exiting them) but no one talks about the many projects that struggle to take off and when to stop working on them.

 

Thinking Time
By Jacob Gorban

Some of the most creative ideas come from the empty space while you aren’t working.

 

Sometimes old-fashioned sketching is the best way to visualize a design idea and iterate on it. Our team does this all the time on our whiteboards at home :)

 

Make sure that you surround yourself with some people who don’t just pat you on the back all of the time.

 

[Video] The art of profitability
By Derek Sivers

Derek started CD Baby, which became the largest seller of independent music online with $100M in sales for 150,000 musicians. Here is his talk on 8 different profit models.

See all of the previous resources and articles we’ve featured here.

 

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Taipei StartupDigest – December 12, 2011

13/12/2011

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! 

Regardless of whether the Red Herring award is still relevant or just a pay-to-receive prize, it’s always nice to see local startups included in the fun. Congratulations to the guys (and girls) over at Bounty Hunter. 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

2011 CEP Forum: Apps (Free)
When: Monday 12, December 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Where: NTU, 1 Roosevelt Road Section 4 (MRT Gongguan)
Language: Chinese

A discussion about apps, and whether they are a viable business proposition or a short cut to business hell.

 

TEDxTaipei: The Power of Journey ($1500)
When: Saturday 17, December 1.00pm – 6pm
Where: Huashan Creative Park, 1 Bade Road Section 1 (MRT Shandao Temple)
Language: Chinese & English

A variety of entrepreneurs, explorers and thinkers will share their experiences.

 

 

Top Upcoming Events

12/21 – TEDxTaida
12/21 – Hsinchu Python Meetup
12/21 – Garage Party

 

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Phoenix StartupDigest – December 12, 2011

13/12/2011

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

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For newcomers: The Phoenix StartupDigest is an event list, created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, that is laser-focused on the needs of startups in the Phoenix area.Some of us are still in Europe after the unbelievable LEWeb2011 conference. For Francine Hardaway’s take on the most exciting parts, read her Fast Company article. Too lazy? Then just know that there were 3,500 people there from 60 companies, all part of a new and growing startup culture that is truly global. Consider saving your money to attend LeWeb2012 in Paris next December. You won’t be sorry.We are heading into the holiday season, and many of these user group meetings may be holiday mixers, or may not happen during this month, so do check for current intormation.

 

Phoenix StartupDigest is curated by:

Francine Hardaway – Partner at Stealthmode Partners
Virgilia Singh - Resident Startup Architect at ASU’s Startup Labs. CEO at Exhale Health

 

 

Phoenix StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
Check out these sketchbook videos on “finding the magic sauce of entrepreneurship” and “three things entrepreneurs do” and more from the Kauffman Foundation.

 

 

What’s Going on in the Phoenix Startup Community

Phoenix Ruby User Group
When: Mon Dec 12, 6:30pm
Where: Target Training International

See website for current info.

 

NSCoders Phoenix (Tempe/Gilbert)
When: Tues Dec 13, 6:00pm
Where: 1st & 3rd Tuesday @ Coffee Rush, Baseline & Gilbert in Gilbert. 2nd & 4th Tuesdays @ Paradise Bakery, Tempe Marketplace, Tempe

A weekly get-together of iOS and OS X coders. Ask questions, solve problems, write some code, network, and shoot the bull. Casual, arrive and leave any time. Check the group list for any special instructions, to see who’s coming, or to let people know that you are.

 

85 Broads – Holiday Social at Brush Bar
When: Wed Dec 14, 5 PM
Where: Brush Bar

The Brush Bar is located in the heart of Old Town Scottsdale, and is designed to be a relaxing and fun night out, we want you to sing, dance, drink some wine, enjoy the company of good friends, whatever you need to do to get creative! Join 85 Broads for its holiday mingle.

 

Hosted by Snell & Wilmer.

 

Gangplank Brown Bag Academy
When: Wed Dec 14, 12:00pm
Where: Gangplank HQ, 260 S Arizona Ave, Chandler AZ 85225

Every week there’s a new topic, ranging from culture to community to code. A great time to experience Gangplank for the first time. Just show up, and bring a lunch or join people for lunch after the presentation.

 

Gangplank Hacknight!
When: Wed Dec 14, 5:30pm
Where: 260 S. Arizona Ave. Chandler, Az.

Gangplank offers a weekly hacknight that acts as an ability to connect, share ideas and launch new ventures in the community.

 

TechLunchNorth
When: Thurs Dec 15, 11:30am
Where: Chino Bandido, 15414 N.19th Ave Suite K Phoenix, AZ 85032

Get together with other community technical people for a fun lunch. Talk about consumer technology, social media, development or anything else that’s on your mind, it’s casual! Note: For the latest updates, search for the hashtag #TechLunchNorth on Twitter.

 

Kicking Off Round 2
When: Thurs Dec 15, 5:00pm
Where: axosoft

It’s time for us to kick off Round 2 of the AZ Disruptors incubator companies. We are looking for 5 awesome startups to participate in AZ Disruptors second class of startups. They’ll get $20,000 in cash, office space, mentorship and a crash course on running a software startup. The deadline to apply is Friday January 13th. Apply Now. To kick things off, we’re having a networking event plus a recording of A Smart Bear Live Startup Podcast with host Jason Cohen (and co-host, me :-). Jason was the founder of Smart Bear Software which he sold and is now extremely active in the startup community with one of the best blogs on startups (A Smart Bear) and he’s involved as both a mentor and an investor at the Capital Factory, a startup incubator in Austin Texas. Jason’s advice to software startups is above and beyond good…it’s amazing! If you’re considering doing a software startup or have a software company, Jason’s blog is a must read.

 

 

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NYC StartupDigest – December 12, 2011

13/12/2011

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

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Good morning, NYC startups! If you have an event you’d like to see featured in the NYC StartupDigest, you can submit it here the week before it happens for consideration.Monthlygifter is our startup of the week: “Monthlygifteris an e-marketplace that helps consumers discover local & unique monthly club and membership programs. We’re dedicated to helping small & local businesses connect to new customers through subscription products that generate recurring revenue & deeper customer loyalty.”If you would like to have your startup featured in the NYC StartupDigest, fill out this form.

For newcomers: The NYC StartupDigest is a curated events list, created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, that is laser-focused on the needs of startups in NYC. Please send feedback to frank.denbow@thestartupdigest.com.

- Frank

 

NYC StartupDigest is curated by:

NYC StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has been working with the startup community for almost 30 years.  The SVB NYC office has been running for 10 years and we work with many NYC startups.  If you want to learn more about how we can help your startup, get in touch with Shai Goldman at sgoldman@svb.com.

What’s Going On in the NYC Startup Community:Monday, December 12

 

Entrepreneurs Roundtable
6:15pm at Microsoft, 1290 6th Ave, 6th Floor

Check out some cool startup demos.

 

CTO School
6:30pm

Learn how to set technology strategy and pick core technologies for your startup.

 

NJ Tech Meetup
6:45pm at Babbio Center, Hoboken, NJ

Jeff Gothelf from TheLadders will talk about Lean UX and how you can deliver better designs for your startup faster.

 

NYC Gaming Meetup
7pm at General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor

Meet other NYC gaming founders, developers, and designers.

 

Learn How to Get Your First Million Users
7pm at Metro Baptist Church, 410 West 40th St

Hear Michael Geer’s story of how he helped build Badoo an idea to a network with over 100m users and $100m in revenue.

 

Tuesday, December 13

 

Nailing the Pitch
6pm at General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor

Get tips from Steve Schlafman, Principal at Lerer Ventures.

 

Founders@Fail: Amol Sarva
6:30pm at General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor

Amol will share what he learned from founding Peek.

 

Startup Metrics for Founders
7pm at Dogpatch Labs, 36 E 12th St, 2nd Floor

Learn how to figure out which metrics really matter to your startup.

 

Learn more about jQuery and how you can use Sencha touch to quickly build mobile websites.

 

Wednesday, December 14

 

Intelligent Agents for Online Analytics
6pm at General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor

Learn how you can use the Intelligent Agent framework to better understand web analytics and data science.

 

Enterprise Insights: Making the Technology Sale
6:30pm at Cooley, 1114 Avenue of the Americas

Learn more about how large corporations think about purchasing a product from a startup.

 

How to Leave Your Job on a High Note in 2012
8pm at General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor

If you’re thinking about leaving your job to start or join a startup in 2012, this class will help you plan a smooth exit.

 

Thursday, December 15

 

How to Scale Beyond Initial Seed Capital
5pm at General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor

Explore the issues which growth companies typically face, including recruiting, management, infrastructure and acquisitions.

 

Holiday Hack Fest with 10gen and Boxee
6:30pm at Boxee HQ, 122 W 26th St, 8th Floor

Work on your project with other NYC hackers and some egg nogg!

 

Rethinking Social Entrepreneurship
7:30pm at General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor

Learn the basics of social entrepreneurship and meet others who are a part of the community.

 

Startup Jobs: Find Your Path
8pm at General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor

Learn best practices for building a career in innovation.

 

Friday, December 16

 

NYU Hackdays
4pm at NYU Courant Institute, Room 201

Spend the evening working on your project or learning a new framework.

 

Come learn from Brant, who is also the curator of the San Diego StartupDigest.

 

NYC tech entrereneurs will be collaborating with Mashable and FDNY on a secret project.

 

Sunday, December 18

 

Enjoy food and drinks with other NYC geeks during this epic ping-pong battle.

 

What’s Going On Next Week:

Monday, December 19

6pm – Building Big Django Sites with James Socol, Mozilla

6pm – TechDrinks Holiday Party

Tuesday, December 20

6pm – Your Lean MVP with Ruby on Rails
7pm – TechStars NYC Spring Program Happy Hour
7pm – Founding a startup with a day job
8pm – Intermediate Business Development for Startups

Wednesday, December 21

7:30pm – Public Speaking and Presentation Skills

 

Top Upcoming NYC Startup Events

Jan 7-8 – Edu Hack Day

 

 

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