Here are the top 5 upcoming startup events in the Bay area. The rankings are based on data we have collected from the Silicon Valley StartupDigest.

Enjoy and share your favorite events below!

	SF Beta 4.0.3 – Thursday, July 13 in San Francisco SF Beta is San Francisco’s largest and longest-running startup mixer. Hundreds of founders, developers, investors, and geeks are joining us. Will you? Our loosely structured event attracts over 350 people from across Silicon Valley. We provide tasty gourmet appetizers and a full cash bar, along with live demos from startups throughout the night. More Info: http://sfbeta4p03.eventbrite.com/
	Startup Job Demo – Saturday, July 17 at Citizen Space 15 hiring companies will present Ignite style for 5 minutes each on what they are working on & the culture of their company. If you like what they are about, you can interview with them in real-time during a 10 minute interview slot directly after their talk. More Info: http://www.meetup.com/sanfrancisco-entrepreneur/calendar/13951390/
	Startup Waffles! Meetup @ LightSpeed Venture Partners – Thursday, July 22 Are you a founder of or an investor in a cool startup? Do you like free all you can eat yummy waffles?  If you answered yes to both of those questions, then come hang out with the Startup Digest co-founders, hackers, and founders for some breakfast between 8am-10am at Light Speed Venture Partners courtyard. More Info: http://www.meetup.com/thestartupwaffles/calendar/13614581/
	Hackers and Founders, WePay, MixPanel Tech Talk: The State of the Database – Tuesday, July 13 at Hacker Dojo These are interesting times to be in databases. We have many industry-changing shifts happening right now: the rise of SSDs, distributed databases, and frameworks to make them. Mozilla’s Principal Data Architect Tim Ellis will give you a simple overview of the state of Databases in 2010. More Info: http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders/calendar/13987593/
	Social Media Marketing 2010 – Tomorrow in San Francisco We normally don’t feature “social media” events because most of these types of events are filled with spammy “self-proclaimed social media gurus.” But this event actually has a good roster of speakers from the media, marketing, journalists, bloggers, and PR world. More Info: http://socialmediamarketing.co.uk/sanfrancisco/

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Here are the top 5 startup events this week in Silicon Valley & San Francisco for the week of June 14th. The rankings are based on data we have collected from the Silicon Valley StartupDigest, here is a link to the most recent issue.

Some have already ended but feel free to check out the upcoming ones that have not yet passed.

Enjoy and share your favorite events below.

	“What they don’t teach you at Stanford Business School about raising VC” This is an event put on by StartupRoots and Larry Chiang featuring the all star panel of VC’s including: Jeff Clavier (SoftTech VC), Jonathan Ebinger (BlueRun Ventures), Andy Fillat (Leapfrog Ventures) and Owen Thomas (Venture Beat). http://startuproots.org/june-16-vc-panel.html
	DEMO/PlugandPlay Meet-Up This is the Silicon Valley DEMO Party which is part of the Nationwide DEMO tour. It includes demonstrats from DEMO Alumni along with local entrepreneurs and VC’s for a casual evening of cocktails and conversation. http://demoplugandplay.eventbrite.com/
	Tony Hsieh talk at the commonwealth Club This event feature Tony Hsieh the founder of LinkExchange (Sold to Microsoft for $265M) and Zappos (sold to Amazon for $1.6b) in conversation with Geoffrey Fowler from The Wall Street Journal. http://bit.ly/aJnTCA
	Startup Waffles – San Francisco Startup Waffles is our fun and quirky event featuring free waffles for startup founders and hackers. This months waffle event will be at Twilio’s office in SF. http://www.meetup.com/thestartupwaffles/calendar/13741858/
	Polyvore Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner This months Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner featuers Polvore CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy who will talk about style, technology, and ecommerec 3.0 with a group of women technologists. http://bayareagirlgeekdinner6.eventbrite.com/

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Here in Silicon Valley we tried out a fun and random event idea called Startup Waffles where we gave away free waffles to startup founders and invited everyone to our house. We had no idea what to expect but 80 Founders ended up coming to our small apartment including a TechCrunch writer, 3 VC’s, and companies were giving tech demos!! It was crazy.

Since the first event people have been asking when the next Startup Waffles is going to be so we are excited to annouce: http://startupwaffles.eventbrite.com/

We will be co-hosting it with Udemy this time (they have a bigger house :) ) so if you are around the Palo Alto, San Francisco, or Bay Area come by and enjoy some tasty waffles with us!

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Startup Waffles Round 2 Update!

The event today was a great success! We had over 50 founders and developers come out to the Udemy World HQ (aka Gagan’s house) for some tasty waffles. Below are some pics:

A packed house at 8am!! Believe me its hard to get founders to wake up anywhere near this hour, my theory is developers love waffles more than sleep :)

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Our core competency is making waffles and a mess

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This is a rare moment in time shot by Himani who did help out with the cleaning :)