Guadalajara StartupDigest – December 12, 2011

12/12/2011

Below is an archived version of the Guadalajara StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Guadalajara.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

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This week we have a talk about two very interesting programming languages. The Startup Digest Gdl is a curated list of interesting events for tech entrepreneurs in Guadalajara. Make sure you send your entrepreneur events to Rubén or Ruy, you can help this list grow more interesting!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

Why Javascript is not Java (Free)
When: December 14th, 7pm
Where: Tacit Knowledge Offices, Agustín Yáñez 2895, Piso 7, Guadalajara

The Java community prepares an interesting talk that explores the language by comparing it with another programming language, Javascript. This will be an interesting talk, presenting the best (and worst) of both languages.

 

Top Upcoming Events

Drupal Summit - 19-21 of January 2012

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Montreal StartupDigest – November 21, 2011

21/11/2011

Below is an archived version of the Montreal StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Montreal.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

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From everything I hear, Montreal Ouvert had a great turnout for their open data hackathon. Fantastic work everyone! I hope to see the fruits of this weekend’s labour in circulation soon.This week is Montreal Python (not last week, sorry) for your coding fix and UX fix for your feedback fix. Check the upcoming events, there’s some great stuff coming down the pipeline as we head into the holiday season!Montreal StartupDigest is curated by:
Robin Ahn – Organizer, StartupDrinks Canada
Tara Hunt – CEO, Buyosphere

 

 

What’s Going on in the Montreal Startup Community

Montreal Python
Where: UQAM, in room SH-R810, 200 Sherbrooke W
When: 6pm, Monday, November 21, 2011

This month’s Python meeting explores the unexpected and unconventional uses of the programming language across many domains.

 

UX FIX
Where: Bolidea, 4115 St. Laurent, Suite 200
When: 6pm, Thursday, November 23, 2011

What happens when you put a bunch of products to usability test? Sparks fly as products gather feedback from willing volunteers. You must attend this event if you have an application that you’re about to release to the wild. This event is currently sold out but keep in touch with the organizers as tester seats sometimes become available.
Top Upcoming Montreal Startup Events

Startup Drinks Montreal
Sign up now for the final Startup Drinks of 2011!

Montreal Girl Geeks
Passionate project management is the subject of this month’s talk by Elizabeth Bucci.

Devcamp by Make Web Not War
Part mixer, part barcamp.

Random Hacks of Kindness
Apply your hacking skills to some of the humanity’s biggest problems and join this global event.

 

 

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Boulder StartupDigest – August 29, 2011

29/08/2011

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

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The two big events this week are Ignite Boulder and the Rocky Mountain Ruby conference (now in its second year).
Boulder StartupDigest is curated by:
Tom Markiewicz – Founder & CEO, StatsMix

 

Boulder StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
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What’s Going on in the Boulder Startup Community

Open Coffee Boulder
When: Tues 8/30/11 8-9:30am
Where: Atlas Purveyors, Boulder, CO

Open and informal meetup for entrepreneurs, startups, and investors.

Rocky Mountain Ruby Hackfest
When: Wed 8-31-11 7pm
Where: Quick Left, 1919 14th St. # 714 Boulder, CO

Meetup of local community managers.

jQuery Mobile
When: Wed 8/31, 6:30-8:30pm
Where: Denver Open Media, 700 Kalamath St, Denver, CO

Presentation on jQuery Mobile – what it is and how to use it.

Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference
When: Wed 8/31 – Friday 9/2
Where: Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO

Rocky Mountain Ruby is a single track conference devoted to the Ruby programming language featuring technical presentations, community events and outdoor experiences.

Ignite Boulder 16
When: Thurs 9-1-11 7-9pm
Where: Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO

Ignite Boulder is a night of presentations with a twist. Presenting on a subject of their choice, speakers have exactly 5 minutes to teach something, enlighten us, or simply inspire — backed by 20 slides auto-advancing every 15 seconds.

 

Top Upcoming Events

September 12 – Entrepreneurs Unplugged: Brad Feld
September 15 - BoulderBeta
September 11-14 - 360|iDev 2011 – Denver
September 14 – TEDxBoulder
October 7-8 – PodCamp Denver 2
October 29 – Rocky Mountain ProductCamp
November 11 – API Hack Day
November 9-11 – Defrag 2011

 

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Salt Lake City StartupDigest – August 15, 2011

16/08/2011

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

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Good afternoon, Salt Lake startups! 

Please send your questions and comments on the featured events to jbradshaw@thestartupdigest.com.

Enjoy!
- Jon

Salt Lake City StartupDigest is curated by:
Jon Bradshaw – Co-Founder of BoomStartup & works with UtahAngels
Scott Lemon – Owner of HumanXtensions & Founder of KarmaKey

 

 

Salt Lake City StartupDigest is made possible 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 Salt Lake City Startup Community

Layton Ruby Users Group
When: Tuesday, August 16, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Where: Divergent Logic, 201 East 2150 North, STE C, Layton, UT

The Utah Ruby Users Group (“URUG”) is a non-profit organization of individuals interested in the Ruby programming language.

Salt Lake Inventions Meetup
When: Tuesday, August 16, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Where: Salt Lake Library, 210 E 400 S, Salt Lake City, UT

Discover the what you need to know to insure that your invention is designed for the right customer, your product is found where they are looking, and how to create a sales process that converts within a natural conversation.

Utah County .NET User’s Group
When: Wednesday, August 17,
Where: NOC 350 E 1175 S, Provo, UT

The topic this month will be ASP.NET MVC. We will look at the MVC pattern and how to create web sites that can be easily tested using ASP.NET MVC.

Salt Lake Linux User Group
When: Wednesday, August 17, 7:10 PM – 8:40 PM
Where: University of Utah, Warnock Engineering Building, Room 101

A private, generally non-profit or not-for-profit organization that provides support and/or education for Linux users.

Utah Java User Group
When: Thursday, August 18, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Where: Intermountain Medical Center, Doty Family Education Center, 5121 Cottonwood Street, Murray, UT

A Java User Group (JUG) is a group of people who share a common interest in Java technology and meet on a regular basis to share technical ideas and information.

 

 

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StartupDigest Enterprise – July 15, 2011

15/07/2011

For newcomers: StartupDigest Enterprise is the members-only weekly email newsletter of the best articles in the enterprise technology industry.

You can become a member for free here.

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Enterprise, the members-only guide to what you need to read in the enterprise technology industry every week.

This week’s edition focuses on Aaron Levie, founder and CEO of Box.net, discussing how to build an “enterprise software company that doesn’t suck,” the release of Google+, platform-as-a-service pioneer Heroku adding support for the Clojure programming language to its offering, assumptions that Hadoop usage grows quickly once organizations wrap their heads around how to use it, and Y Combinator alum MemSQL raising $2.1 Million.

- Trent & Euwyn

StartupDigest Enterprise is curated by:
Trent Miskelly – Product Architect at Idera
Euwyn Poon – CEO of Opzi

 

 

What You Need to Read This Week

Building An Enterprise Software Company That Doesn’t Suck
By Aaron Levie (Box.net CEO), TechCrunchAmazingly, more than 40% of IT projects still fail to deliver the expected business ROI, yet enterprise vendors come out winning regardless. But not for long. Now that enterprise software can be delivered over the web and iterated quickly, we’re seeing the barriers for development, distribution and adoption shrink to levels previously only witnessed by consumer internet companies, with millions of users on top of platforms like Yammer, Box, and Zendesk; these changes are creating a much more competitive landscape where the customer stands to gain tremendously. 

Google+ and the Enterprise
By Jed Singer, Dachis Group

In just over a week, Google+ has signed up over 10 million users, addressing glaring “weaknesses” of Facebook and taking an active stance in the incorporation of business tools from the outset. Let’s take a look at some of the elements of Google+ that are in the works for the business roll-out later this year and discuss how the enterprise may make use of them, products that may already satisfy business needs, and possible efficiencies created by having all functionality centrally available via Google+.

Heroku adds Clojure to its mix, targets enterprise apps
By Derrick Harris, GigaOM

Platform-as-a-service provider Heroku, recently acquired by Salesforce, announced support for the functional programming language Clojure, in addition to Node.js and Ruby. This week, Heroku also announced the hiring of Ruby creator Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, as its chief architect of Ruby.

Are companies addicted to Hadoop?
By Derrick Harris, GigaOM

According to Cloudera VP of Customer Solutions Omer Trajman, there are now 22 Hadoop clusters (exlcuding Facebook and Yahoo) that are managing more than a petabyte of data each, a number that’s growing as more and more enterprises start adopting the technology for deriving customer insights from their massive sets of data.

MemSQL raises $2.1 million for developing a scalable in-memory database
By Rip Empson, TechCrunch

MemSQL announced its first funding round for further development on its scalable in-memory database. As opposed to NoSQL solutions, MemSQL retains SQL and ACID compliance but provides up to 30-times faster performance than relational databases on disk.

 

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Dallas StartupDigest – June 6, 2011

7/06/2011

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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The 100 degree days are back and now is the time to spend some time indoors.

Before we get to the events, a reminder that the Dallas Startup Weekend is two weekends away (June 17) – make sure to keep your social calendars open for it.

Three events this week: BBQ with a Congressman, PHP Lone Star conference, and the Python meetup (the programming language, not the snake).

Have a great week, and enjoy!
Chris Bond

Dallas StartupDigest is curated by:
Chris Bond - Co-founder RentSavvy
Gabriella Draney – Co-founder and Managing Partner at Tech Wildcatters

 

 

 

What’s Going on in the Dallas Startup Community

MIT Enterprise Forum: Startup Bar-B-Q with Congressman Pete Sessions
When: ·Wednesday, June 8, 12-2pm
Where: TechWildcatters, 2700 Fairmount Ave, Dallas, TX 75204

Join the MIT Enterprise Forum and TechWildcatters in welcoming Congressman Pete Sessions with BBQ. The Congressman wants to hear more about startups in Dallas, and definitely wants to hear your questions and thoughts. Outside of camping on the Capitol’s lawn in Austin, this is the best way to take a role in shaping entrepreneurship in the state.

DFW Pythoneers 2nd Saturday Hands-On Coding Sprint
When: ·Saturday, June 11, 2:00pm
Where:Fish Technologies, 16750 Westgrove Drive Suite 600 Addison, TX

Code and hack Python with Dallas’ best.

Lone Star PHP Conference
When: ·Saturday, June 11, 8:00am – 5:30pm
Where: Crowne Plaza 7800 Alpha Rd, Dallas, TX

Are you into PHP? This conference has some of the best local speakers from across the state and they’ll be covering a lot of ground. For $60, you can’t get a better PHP education. As of Sunday, only 8 tickets were left, so don’t think about it for too long.

 

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