Below is an archived version of the Amsterdam StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Amsterdam.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

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Amsterdam StartupDigest is curated by:
Don Ritzen - Co-Founder Rockstart Accelerator, Founder Startup Weekend Amsterdam, Eindhoven and Cameroon and EU facilitator.

 

 

What’s Going on in the Amsterdam Startup Community

A casual cup of coffee with other tech enthusiasts. Attendance: usually around 80-120 people.

 

H&F meetup with a talk by Dan Harple who has been founder and CEO of four technology companies, a senior exec and/or CEO in three NASDAQ-listed tech companies, and an advisor and investor in many others. He’ll talk about the lifecycle of a technology startup: idea, garage, seed, angel, VC round(s), private equity rounds, debt financing, and liquidity events.

 

Learn about the story of growing hyves and how the challenged they faced relate to how Amazon Web Services could have been used.

 

This December, the StartupBus phenomenon is coming to Europe. Starting in Amsterdam and ending at Paris in time for the LeWeb conference. Participants will have the opportunity to test their skills against Europe’s best hackers (developers), hustlers (marketeers) and hipsters (designers) while competing for the title of European Champions.

There still might be some tickets left, but it’s on an “invite-only” basis so if you’re interested I would recommend you network your way into the most amazing bus ride of Europe of 2011!

 

Below is an archived version of the Vancouver StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Vancouver.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

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Vancouver StartupDigest is curated by:
Jon Chui – iPhone Developer, Invoke Media

 

 

What’s Going on in the Vancouver Startup Community

Free Market Research Bootcamp
When: Mon Nov 28, 12:00am
Where: 515 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3

Rocket Academy is pleased to announce a free bootcamp designed to help technology companies use Market Research to improve products, enhance revenue and stimulate better access to capital.

 

Jesse MacFadyen, a core developer for PhoneGap, will be doing a presentation on PhoneGap for Windows Phone!

 

Grow Lab’s Inaugural 2011 Fall cohort and see the exciting new developments in Vancouver’s startup community.

 

Interested in knowing what government funding is available to help you with your new technology startup?

 

Bring a project to work on, if you don’t have a project we’ll help you come up with one! See you there.

 

Open data + food. Sign-up here.

 

Beer is a staple of hackers. ;)

 

 

Top Upcoming Events

Tues Dec 6, 6:30pm – .netBC Introducing HTML5
Tues Dec 6, 6:30pm – Follow The Clean Code Examples
Thurs Dec 8, 6:30pm – DigiBC Holiday Party 2011
Thurs Dec 15, 8:30am – GrowthWorkshop: Understanding & Preparing Your SR&ED Claim

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

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Houston StartupDigest is curated by:
Sarah Worthy – Schipulite at Schipul

 

 

Houston StartupDigest is made possible exclusively by:
Check out these sketchbook videos on “finding the magic sauce of entrepreneurship” and “three things entrepreneurs do” narrated by Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation.

 

 

What’s Going on in the Houston Startup Community

Come out to the annual Fast Tech 50 Technology conference to learn who the fastest high-tech businesses in Houston are. The conference begins with a CEO Technology Forum over breakfast, followed by the change to view more than 25 new technology companies at the Technopalooza, and concludes with the award luncheon.

 

Come meet Houston technology startups, entrepreneurs, and investors who will be representing Houston at SXSW interactive in 2012 and mingle with the Fast Tech 50 winners. If you are interested in showcasing your technology startup at SXSW, then this is a great event to learn how.

 

GroundUP Houston events encourage entrepreneurs and people with start-up dreams to share their experiences with like-minded individuals.

 

Open to the public, this forum offers some of Houston’s best networking opportunities for the tech community,as well as updates from HTC’s Client Companies.

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

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Good Morning, Toronto Startups and Entrepreneurs! This week brings a busy Tuesday, with a LeanCoffeeTO to kick-off the day and two great events — Technicity and the Art of Sales Conference. Ladies, on Saturday there’s a crash-course on WordPress at CSI Annex, which I’ll attest to is a pretty great platform for easily publishing a blog or a content-based website.Please let us know if we’re missing any key events and we’ll be glad to include them in future digests through our submission form.

– Josh

Toronto StartupDigest is curated by:
Will Lam – Founder of Date Ideas and keeps a blog on Entrepreneurship
Josh Sookman – CEO, Guardly

 

 

What’s Going on in the Toronto Startup Community

Rails Pub Nite
When: November 21 @ 7 – 11pm
Where: The Rhino, 1249 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON

RPN is free of cost and everyone interested in web development is encouraged to join us for a pint. Please note that this is a social event, not a user group. There are no technical demonstrations at Pub Nite.

If you are a recruiter or hiring for your start-up, you are free to climb up on a chair and pitch the crowd of 40–50 developers for two minutes. You are then obligated to buy everyone a round of drinks in return.

 

Participants from established and entrepreneurial technology companies, government, and other stakeholders will share ideas and perspectives and jointly explore strategies to further grow Toronto’s technology sector and propel the GTA forward as a global technology centre. This year’s agenda includes extended “discussions on three areas where technology and the city intersect.

 

 

Specifically designed for professionals and entrepreneurs, The Art of Sales is a unique one-day conference featuring five internationally renowned bestselling authors and visionaries, who will share an exciting blend of cutting edge thinking, best practices, current trends and real world experience on today’s most critical sales and marketing issues. This is your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to gain a competitive advantage and network with over 2,500 of Canada’s most influential sales professionals.

 

Democamp UofT brings together student hackers, developers and entrepreneurs to showcase their latest online projects to an audience passionate about start-ups. By allowing the student body to witness what their peers are capable of, we hope to invigorate their enthusiasm to change the world by harnessing today’s technology, whether it be web, mobile, or tablet devices.

 

Whether you want to start your own blog, or your company website is run on it, WordPress allows you to update and create content easily, while allowing for your own style and customization. You don’t need to be technical to use it, but it can be really powerful if you get your hands dirty and work with the code. In this workshop, Wes Bos is going to show you how to install WordPress, what it all means, and of course, how to edit a theme to make it your own.

 

 

Top Upcoming Events

Nov 30 – Entrepreneurship 101: Board of Directors and Other Advisors
Nov 30 – Dribbble TO Meetup
Nov 30 - Wattpad Open House (find someone with an invite)
Dec 1 - Canadian Innovation Exchange
Dec 5 – MNP Valuation Day @ MaRS (RSVP: Nathan Monk, nmonk@marsdd.com and cc: Andrea Russett, arussett@marsdd.com)
Dec 6 - Toronto VMWare User Group
Dec 6 - Optimizing MySQL Queries with Explain
Dec 7 - Entrepreneurship 101: Value Proposition
Dec 9 - The Next 36 @ The Canadian Club Luncheon
Jan 25-26 - Dx3 Canada

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

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I really enjoyed hearing Frank Moss speak at the University of Texas. He was previously CEO of Tivoli, an early Austin enterprise software company that went public and was eventually bought by IBM. He also recently ran the MIT media lab. He shared some insights about entrepreneurship and about Austin – but I think the best part was that the undergraduate students got a lot of time to interact and ask him questions.The Fall semester isn’t half over, but 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.Help make sure the next StartupDigest has your event on it by filling out this form.Austin StartupDigest is curated by:
Joshua Baer – Founder of Otherinbox and Managing Director of the Capital Factory

 

 

Austin StartupDigest is supported exclusively by:
U.S. college graduates with innovative new business ideas can apply to the Kauffman Foundation’s Global Scholars Program, newly expanded to include U.S. scholars. Participants learn and network with an international group of fellow aspiring entrepreneurs from January through June 2012. Apply here by Oct. 17, 2011.

 

 

What’s Going on in the Austin Startup Community

AustinTechFair 2011
When: 9/26/2011, 9:00am – 4:00pm
Where: AT&T Center at UT

The Door64 Tech Fair showcases Central Texas technology companies, generating huge local exposure in our technology community. With this exposure your company may discover new customers, partners, hiring candidates, suppliers, investors, and more. Exposure breeds opportunity, and this event is designed to attain maximum local exposure for your company.

This month come hear talks from developers at Food on the Table about moving from PHP to Rails and also several days in the life of Rails developers practicing lean startup principles.

Calling all Texas Entrepreneurs, Austin Ventures Entrepreneur Hours (AVEH) is BACK and coming to Austin on September 29th. For a quick overview of AVEH and tips on how to get the most out of a 20 minute coffee chat with a VC vet, check out our blog. Per usual, AV’s focus is on web-enabled technologies, enterprise software, consumer web, mobile applications, etc.
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South Austin’s first co-working space is having an open house party. Stop by the office to enjoy beer and refreshments, check them out, and get great discounts for signing up on the spot.

With RDFa support in core, Drupal 7 introduces new possibilities for website owners to publish structured semantic data on the Web. With the addition of modules like RDF Extensions, it becomes possible to customize the data you want to publish as RDF, and describe the structured of your data so that other applications can reuse it. The SPARQL and SPARQL Views modules allow to reuse and combine Linked Data from elsewhere on the Web to purpose it for your application. In this full day tutorial (lunch included!), you will be able to get hands-on with Drupal 7 and its semantic capabilities.

Texas State University’s Office of Commercialization and Industry Relations has opened a new coaching/incubator program called RampCorp Austin for women who are, or who want to be, entrepreneurs running their own scalable companies. The group is currently recruiting for its next session. Each session runs for 35 weeks and meets on Monday evenings at the offices of Winstead PC.

 

 

Top Upcoming Events

October 5 – Austin NoSQL
October 6 - Open Coffee
October 14 – Friday Night Hacks

 

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:
The Kauffman Foundation supports entrepreneurship and innovation so that economies grow and prosper and ultimately human welfare expands. Kauffman develops, operates and funds programs such as Startup Weekend, Kauffman Labs, and Global Entrepreneurship Week. Follow the Foundation on Twitter @KauffmanFDN

 

 

What’s Going on in the Salt Lake City Startup Community

Evo Conference 2011

When: Thursday-Saturday, July 7-9, 9:00 AM – 10:30 PM

Where: Canyons Resort, 4000 Canyons Resort Drive, Park City, UT

The Evolution of Women in Social Media (evo’11 Conference) takes place in Park, City, Utah July 7-9 at the Canyons resort. It focuses on taking your blog, your business, and your brand to the next level and targets bloggers, social media enthusiasts, business owners, and the brands and agencies they want to connect with. Topics are presented in panels and via small-group workshops through hands-on learning.

LaunchUp #20

When: Thursday, July 7, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Where: Center 7 Data Center, 14

LaunchUp is the 2011 version of a good old fashioned barn raising applied to technology companies. Presenters include Phil Windley, Tyler Bye, VuTherapy, Jumbas, and Event Espresso.

Making Open Source Work

When: Friday, July 8, 2011

Where: Holland & Hart, 222 South Main Street, Suite 2200, Salt Lake City, UT

The Open Source movement’s collaborative style, group governance, and free distribution models have often been at odds with corporate America. the presenter will be Alan Clark, SUSE’s Director of Open Standards and Initiatives and chair of the openSUSE project, a leading Linux distribution.

Kynetx Free Lunch Friday

When: Friday, July 8, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Where: Kynetx, 3098 Executive Parkway #325, Lehi, UT

Free lunch for programmers and CTO’s to talk shop.

 

Seedcamp are well known for helping young startups get advice and the chance of some seed funding, and now they are planning to help at an even early stage with plans for an upcoming Seedcamp hackathon underway.However, if you’re later on your startup journey, and are now at a point of seriously scaling up, The BLN Growth Forum 2011 could be for you. The impressive line-up of speakers have founded, and lead businesses, with a total value of well over $20 billion. The event is aimed at those leading or investing in technology companies, and the organisers are offering six startups 50% off the ticket price using discount code GFStartup.

London StartupDigest is curated by:
Scott Allison – Founder & CEO, Teamly

 

 

What’s Going on in the London Startup Community

Practical Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding
When: Monday, 20th June
Where: Innovation Warehouse, 1 East Poultry Avenue, London, EC1A 9PT

Paul Dombowsky, founder of IdeaVibes will be talking about harnessing the power of the crowd for sourcing innovation, talent or funding.

Guardian Activate London 2011
When: Wednesday, 22nd June
Where: Guardian offices, Kings Place, London

Activate is the Guardian newspaper’s platform for leaders working across all sectors who are proving that, through the use of technology and the internet, we can make the world a better place.

Coadec: Copyright in the Digital Age: Will the Government Implement the Hargreaves Recommendations?
When: Thursday, 23rd June
Where: TechHub, 76-80 City Road, London, EC1Y 2BJ

Before the Government makes their decision on what to do with Prof. Hargreaves recommendations for transforming Britain’s IP system this is an opportunity to have your opinion heard. A fantastic panel will debate the recommendations, including the report’s author along with Eric Joyce MP, Stefan Glaenzer of Passion Capital, Lord Lucas, and Nico Perez.

Mashup Event: Private Social Networks
When: Thursday, 23rd June
Where: Innovation Warehouse, 1 East Poultry Avenue, London, EC1A 9PT

A discussion on the need for niche social networks with Dominic Wheatley of SocialGo, Julian Ranger of DAD, Steve Dale of the Knowledge Hub and Mark Jennings of Fresh Networks.

Launch 48
When: Friday 24th to Sunday 26th June
Where: Kingston University, Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2EE

Pitch, build and launch an online business in 48 hours with the aid of other would-be entrepreneurs and some great mentors.

Top Upcoming London Startup Events