Below is an archived version of the Lexington StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Lexington.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

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Lexington StartupDigest is curated by:
Sean O’Leary – Director of Venture Finance, KSTC

 

 

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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’s Going on in the Lexington Community

Louisville Transportation Camp
When: Monday, December 12th, 5-8pm
Where: Autodemo, 1129 Payne St., Louisville, 40204

Description: Let’s use TARC’s transit feed, PARC’s open data, Louisville’s Open Data Initiative, and the Your Mapper API to brainstorm and prototype some cool local apps.

 

 

Top Upcoming Events

December 19 – Mobile Developers Meetup

Below is an archived version of the Madrid StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Madrid.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

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Hi all from rainy Paris!Staying some days at the city of lights for LeWeb. I’m very excited to be here, especially because LeWeb is THE startup conference for Europe and even for part of Silicon Valley. Everyone is going to be here, so if you have a startup or work in that industry, you should definitely check it out (big waving hand to my friends at Rude Baguette who will be there too). This year I’m especially thrilled because we’re going to test the first prototype of Press42. That means we’re covering the event, not only as official LeWeb bloggers, but for all things startup for Press42 and our partners too. If you’re a blogger that writes about startups and are attending LeWeb, please do let me know so I can add you to the system. If on the contrary, you’re a startup attending the event (already got in contact with some of the startup competition finalists), email me at leweb@press42.com so we can add your story to the platform and reach the bloggers at the event.

Some news from this week, the big bomb, Facebook buys Gowalla. I nearly missed that one. I’m very happy for the guys at Gowalla. Have a couple of friends there, so I’m guessing I’ll see them in SF. ;) Also, the now infamous list of probable IPO startups from Goldman Sachs. Yeah, you know, the guys partly responsible for our financial meltdown? Well, they’re playing with startups now… And finally, a good post from GigaOM talking about thinking big. I have to agree on this one. Lots of startups aren’t thinking big enough. A lot of people are talking the Lean Startup approach, but they forget that lean doesn’t mean cheap — nevertheless, it seems that’s what most people are doing.

And now, back to our events. Although this week we have 2 holiday so most people are out of town. Very very slow week with only 2 events coming up.

 

 

What’s Going on in the Madrid Startup Community

Re-Twittmad
When: Wed Dec 7, 8:00pm
Where: Irish Rover

If you want to swing by and talk with the Twitter community in Madrid and have some beers, this is the place this week.

 

 
Okuri Entrepreneur Feedback Day
When: Wed Dec 7, 4:00pm
Where: Okuri Spaces (C/ Bravo Murillo 244 Planta 1 28020 Madrid)

After many months, including a Startupbootcamp Madrid and a Tetuan Valley Startup School, my friends at Okuri return with the feedback days. If you have a startup and want to get some free real badass feedback, this is the place to go this week, hands down!

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

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Good morning, everyone! Ready for another amazing week? This past week has been awesome! We had Chris, our beloved co-founder in Madrid, so we took him out for beers. :P We joined with the Tetuan Valley crew, a bunch of startup friends and we had an amazing night! Thank you all for coming, I had a lot of fun!Apart from that, this week I’ve been working hard on my own startup, Press42 to get a prototype ready for LeWeb. Yeah, I’ll be there this year too, so if any of you are going, do ping me. :) I would love to meet you!Some interesting posts from this week, 7 tips on how to get acquired. For those of you starting to look for Christmas gifts, here is a bad ass one, the Twine! (btw, I want a couple!). For those of you in the blogger arena, Om just wrote his reflections after 10 years of blogging (some interesting graphs there) and finally, startups and virality, take a look at the Pinterest story.Before we get into the events, I wanted to thank a lot of you for the kind words I’ve been getting these pasts weeks. Many of you have found interesting people at the events or had a great time at specific events. I’m super happy about that! That’s what the digest is for so I’m very glad! So let’s keep it coming! Events powa!

 

 

What’s Going on in the Madrid Startup Community

iOs Bootcamp (Spanish)
When: Mon Nov 28, 6:00pm
Where: EOI, Avenida Gregorio del Amo, 6, Madrid

My good friend from betabeers kick this new event with my friend @filito from MiNube. He’ll be teaching some iOS coding 101 classes. If you want to learn, this is a great opportunity!

Conferencia startups esade (Spanish)
When: Wed Nov 30, 5:30pm
Where: Fundación Rafael del Pino, c/Rafael Calvo, 39 Madrid

Bunch of talks organized by ESADE. This first one counts with quite a lineup, including Jesús Encinar from Idealista or Gustavo García from Buyvip.

 

Hacks & Hackers (Spanish)
When: Wed Nov 30, 7:30pm
Where: GarAJE (Matilde Diaz, 11 Madrid)

Meeting point between journalists and developers. A place where they’ll share their knowledge. To be honest, I would love to swing by this one but I have another event at 7pm. :( It’s a very new meetup so I’m rather curious.

 

Congreso Iniciador (Spanish)
When: Thurs Dec 1, 9:30am
Where: Auditorio del rectorado de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. C/ Tulipán s/n. Móstoles. Madrid

Our friends from Iniciador organized their II congress this week. Some interesting talks if you care to stop by.

 

Women 2.0 Founder Friday Madrid
When: Fri Dec 2, 6:00pm
Where: The Gin Room, Academia, 7. Madrid

This event is quite unusual, but very needed. Want to find and talk to other founders? Maybe even find a co-founder? This is a great place to start!

 

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

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Estonia StartupDigest is curated by:
Mari-Liis Lind - Working with and for startups in Estonia. Sec.Gen @ Estonian Venture Capital Association. Advisor to Startup Estonia programme.

 

 

What’s Going on in the Estonia Startup Community

Technology companies pitching to Seed Forum investors. Closed event. Contact the Seed Forum organizers if you wish to get in.

 

Ajujaht is Estonia’s most prominent business plan competition to be held already for the fifth consequent year. All bright minds are encouraged to submit their business idea’s to compete for the 95 000 EUR prize money.

 

A conference on creative entrepreneurship that gives a health check to old tools and policies and introduces new ones. With a dynamic mix of speakers, the conference will explore how to develop creative entrepreneurship to improve innovation and competitiveness. This will focus on entrepreneurship across the arts, in organisations and institutions, and across clusters and networks of creative businesses.

 

This month’s business breakfast focuses on communication issues. How to not get lost in translation while taking your product / service abroad?

 

Inspirational speeches on environment. TEDx is an independently organized TED event. Event is held mainly in Estonian. TEDxLoodusele is organised in relation to The Big Green Weekend.

 

 

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

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For newcomers: Singapore StartupDigest is a curated events list created by entrepreneurs that is focused on the needs and interests of startups in Singapore.Do drop me a note at gwen@thestartupdigest.com if you have any feedback, questions, or ideas.

Singapore StartupDigest is curated by:
Gwendolyn Regina Tan – Co-founder & Editor-in-Chief, SGEntrepreneurs
 

Techventure
When: Thursday to Friday, 13th-14th October 2011

Where: Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

A major line-up of big names from VCs to entrepreneurs and politicians. Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin will also be there. However, ticket sales have ended — but maybe non-attendees can hang out at Marina Bay Sands to catch the speakers when they’re out and about.

Startup Weekend Singapore 3

When: Friday-Sunday 14-16 Oct 2011

Where: 71 Ayer Rajah Crescent #02-23

Startup Weekend in Singapore, round 3. The difference this time is that the team that creates the most commercially viable prototype will get a SGD 15K (USD 11.6K) investment and a guaranteed place in the JFDI-Innov8 2012 bootcamp.