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This week we have a meetup of the CocoaHeads community, the enthusiasts of the CocoaFramework, and the Guadalajara Dev House, an open event for people who love to experiment with the limits of systems.

Guadalajara StartupDigest is curated by:
Rubén Medellín – Web Developer at Freshout
Ruy Cervantes- Working on a Ph.D. on Informatics

 

 

What’s Going on in the Guadalajara Startup Community

The DevHouse is a very open for people who love technology, want to experiment with the limits of systems, and are interested in building something for the curiosity and fun. In other words, a hacker party. You do not have to be a programmer to come. You can do design, art, etc. Please register in the site.

 

CocoaHeads is a discussion group for the Cocoa framework, including Mac and iOS. The meetups are quite informal, so feel free to ask questions. Please register in the site.

 

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Welcome back to the StartupDigest Reading List, the members-only guide to the best articles on startup life. This week there is no theme but we have 4 posts from different startup disciplines and perspectives. We also have a soft launch of our new Startup Videossection, a curated list of the best startup talks from around the world.- Chris

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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 by Nov. 8, 2011.

 

 

What You Need to Read This Week

An awesome post of pure epicness for engineers. It’s long but totally worth it.

 

 

This post focuses on term sheets, but it really applies to any business situation. When people show their true colors, always trust your gut.

 

A sobering message from Startup School 2011. Don’t start a startup just for the sake of starting a startup.

 

Traction, traction, traction. Here are a bunch of different marketing verticals which you can use to get distribution.

 

My co-founder Brendan watches a ton of business/startup videos so we figured it would be a good thing to compile all of the good ones into one place for you.

 

Find all of the best articles on starting, joining, and leading a startup here.

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One of the most common requests I get is for an introduction to a co-founder. Usually it’s someone with a business idea looking for a technical co-founder, or a programmer who built something to scratch his own itch but is now looking for someone with sales or marketing experience to help him grow the business. If you are looking for the right startup to join, you should attend the upcoming Co-Founder Meetupput on by Ricardo Sanchez on October 11.I’m always happy to help too. Email me or tweet me with info about the kind of person you are looking for and I’ll spread the word.We’re already planning for the Spring class of 1 Semester Startup at the University of Texas. If you know any entrepreneurial UT undergrads (any major), please make sure they consider our class.

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Joshua Baer – Founder of Otherinbox and Managing Director of the Capital Factory
Damon Clinkscales – Software Engineer at VitalSource

 

 

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What’s Going on in the Austin Startup Community

Windows Phone DevCamp
10/4-10/5, 8:00am-5:00pm
AT&T Conference Center

Get the latest on Windows Phone and everything you need to know to develop, publish and make money with your application at this free event. Day 1 will feature inside advice from Windows Phone experts and local MVPs, plus technical sessions on Windows Phone app development. Day 2 goes hands-on with the opportunity to roll up your sleeves and code. It’s time to put your creativity and knowledge to work and build the app you’ve been dreaming about.

 

Tyler from DataStax will be talking about Apache Cassandra, a hybrid of Amazon’s Dynamo, which offers scalability, simplicity, and availability, with the data model of Google’s Big Table, which goes far beyond what a key-value store can offer. This talk will cover Cassandra at a high level and show how it makes real-time queries on big data possible. Free pizza provided.

 

Good coffee. Ideas. Entrepreneurs. Conversation.

 

Top Upcoming Events

October 11 – Co-founder Meetup
October 14 – Friday Night Hacks
October 18 – Texchange: Hiring Secrets
Otober 21 – 3 Day Startup
October 27 – Texas Venture Labs Expo

 

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Hacker, the members-only guide to what you need to read in the hacking community every week. 
This week’s edition highlights learning vim, writing a complier, 10 papers every programmer should read, advice from a startup lawyer, and issues with git-flow.

StartupDigest Hacker is curated by:
John Sheehan – Developer Evangelist for Twilio

 

 

What You Need to Read This Week

Learn Vim Progressively
From yannesposito.com

“Want to learn vim (the best text editor known to human kind) the fastest way possible. I suggest you a way. Start by learning the minimal to survive, then integrate slowly all tricks.”

Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers.
From prog21.dadgum.com

“Imagine you don’t know anything about programming, and you want learn how to do it. You take a look at Amazon.com, and there’s a highly recommended set of books by Knute or something with a promising title, The Art of Computer Programming, so you buy them. Now imagine that it’s more than just a poor choice, but that all the books on programming are at written at that level. That’s the situation with books about writing compilers.”

10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
By Michael Feathers, Object Mentor

“So, I was thinking about this and trying to not to get too glum. I realized that instead of complaining, I could help by pointing to some papers which are easily available online and which (to me at least) point to some of the most interesting ideas about software. To me, these are classic papers which contain deep ‘things you oughta know’ about code – the material you work with.”

If I Launched a Startup
By Ryan Roberts, Startup Lawyer

“Here’s what I’d do in the beginning.”

GitHub Flow
By Scott Chacon, scottchacon.com

“I travel all over the place teaching Git to people and nearly every class and workshop I’ve done recently has asked me what I think about git-flow. I always answer that I think that it’s great – it has taken a system (Git) that has a million possible workflows and documented a well tested, flexible workflow that works for lots of developers in a fairly straightforward manner. It has become something of a standard so that developers can move between projects or companies and be familiar with this standardized workflow. However, it does have its issues.”

 

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Good morning all,

• Mark your calendars for Columbus Startup Weekend 5 – Oct 7-9 @ CCAD.
• Organizers have announced plans for the second 1492 business launch competition aimed at finding the next great company.
• Take a look at the list of Columbus Startups and emerging companies and add/delete as needed to update.

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

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Ben Blanquera – TechLife Columbus

 

 

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What’s Going on in the Columbus Startup Community

Central Ohio Cloud Computing Group – Heroku and Cloud Foundry
When: Monday, Aug 8, 6:00pm
Where: TechColumbus 1275 Kinnear Road Columbus Ohio

Cloud platforms promise a way to make your applications available to any user on the Internet, scalable to any size demand, affordable to any budget, compatible across all platforms, and accessible to any programmer able to build a “Hello, World” app. Those are all typically true, but some are mutually exclusive. This discussion will talk about each of these aspects in the context of Heroku (with a brief nod to CloudFoundry). We will cover setting up an application, add-ons, the command-line, available technology stacks, cost structures, environments, and lots of other fun stuff. Although Heroku supports node.js and Clojure (recently announced), we will be using Ruby for the evening.

DEC Presents: Market Your Way to Success
When: Tuesday Aug 9 9:00 am
Where: Dublin Entrepreneur Center 703 Post Road Dublin Ohio

Marketing is the heart and soul of your business. To be successful you have to know who your best customers are, what your customers want and then use that information to strategically position your product or service to be recognized by, appeal to and effectively persuade them to purchase. Come to the Market Your Way to Success series and learn how to present the best your company has to offer!

Why you need an open source CMS
When: Wednesday Aug 10 5pm
Where: Innovate New Albany Center INC@8000 800 Walton Parkway New Albany

A content management system (CMS) is critical to the success of almost every website, and yet many organizations are not familiar with why they need one. In this workshop we will cover the following: What is a CMS?, Why every business needs a CMS, Advantages of an Open CMS vs. a proprietary CMS, How to choose the best CMS.

 

Top Upcoming Columbus Startup Events

Aug 15 – COWPUG August 2011 Meetup
Aug 15 – Columbus Ruby Brigade Monthly Meeting
Aug 17 – Columbus Javascript Usergroup
Aug 18 – Jelly @ The DEC
Aug 19 – August BA LIG- What is Agile?

I, for one, welcome our new StartupDigest overlords. It’s been quiet this week on the hacker front. As always, I love hearing from the readers to know what links you like and don’t like as well as hearing about what you’re working on. Hit me up at john@startupdigest.com.

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What You Need to Read This Week

How to Become a Great Finisher
By Heidi Grant Halvorson, Harvard Business Review

I’m a classic “starter.” I love starting new projects but like many others my excitement tails off as the project goes on. A recent University of Chicago study aims to expose why this is so common and offers up ideas for becoming a better finisher.

Instant Company
By Nat Friedman, nat.org

While getting a new company off the ground, here are the tools Nat Friedman and the team at Xamarin are using to manage the company.

Advice From An Old Programmer
From learnpythonthehardway.org

You just learned how to write code. Now what do you do? As a grizzled software veteran, Zed Shaw offers some advice on how to put your new skills to work most effectively.

Camera That Allows You To Change Focus After Taking a Picture
By Ina Fried, All Things D

From the Just Plain Cool Department, check out this new camera technology that captures the entire field of light letting you change the focal point of a picture after it’s taken. Incredible demos included.

 

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

We are taking this week’s articles to heart. We used a landing page for our VIP product to start a conversation with engineers and designers looking to join startups, launched a hideous first version of the product, and we are throwing a kickass pool party on Saturday to celebrate the fun of #startuplife :)

On to this week’s articles!

- Chris

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

 

What You Need to Read This Week

Advice From An Old Programmer
By Zed Shaw

An epic post about the true meaning of coding. Software development is a true art form, so be sure to put it to a meaningful purpose.

Marketing to your own team
By Reijo Sutinen

In a startup, the culture you create with your team is the most important thing you have. Don’t take shortcuts and screw it up.

“Thank you. That was a lot of fun.”
By Jeremy Mims

It sounds obvious but if you are going to go through the painful journey of starting a company and creating your own job, make sure it’s fun for you.

Hacking PR: How we got PunchTab on TechCrunch 3 times in 3 months
By Ranjith Kumaran

Writers and journalists love using themes or stories that resonate with people. If you are trying to get press for your startup, here is some insight on how to pitch your story.

Launch your site too soon
By Emile Petrone

If you aren’t embarrassed about the first version of your product, you launched too late.

What is your coming soon page for?
By Joel Gascoigne

This is related to the article above. “Launching” does not mean just putting up a boring landing page trying to collect email addresses for no reason. Use the people who sign up for your beta to learn from, have a conversation with, and test your hypotheses.