Silicon Valley StartupDigest – May 16, 2011

17/05/2011

Below is an archived version of the Silicon Valley StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Silicon Valley.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

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Select startups (Twilio, Justin.tv, and a few others) pitched our private list of 30 VIP engineers and designers (screened from more than 600 applicants). So far, the startups have already received 15 intros :)

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On to this week’s events!

- Chris

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What’s Going On in the Silicon Valley Startup Community

Creating Professional Apps with LinkedIn (Free)
When: Monday, May 16 @ 7pm
Where: LinkedIn, Mountian View

If you have thought of making an app on top of Linkedin here is your chance to meet Kirsten Jones the developer advocate at LinkedIn.

JavaScript Hack Night (Free)
When: Tuesday, May 17 @ 8pm
Where: Citizen Space, SF

Hang out and work at night with other engineers.

How to Select Your Angels (Free)
When: Wednesday, May 18 @ 8:30am
Where: Julia Morgan Ballroom, SF

A discussion about choosing angel investors with Jeff Clavier, Jared Hansen (BreezyPrint), Mitchell Kapor, Naval Ravikant, and Rob Hayes (First Round Capital).

SF Open Coffee Club (Free)
When: Thursday, May 19 @ 8am
Where: Adku, SF

Hosted by True Ventures. There will be coffee, orange juice, and “probably” waffles.

Ignite: Lean Startup ($18)
When: Saturday, May 21 @ 7:30pm
Where: pariSoma, SF

Quick talks about lean startups Ignite style.

iPhone Development for Beginners ($110)
When: Saturday, May 21 @ 1pm
Where: Hackerdojo, Mountain View

Ideal for beginners who know nothing to very little about development.

Maker Faire ($25)
When: May 21st & 22nd
Where: San Mateo County Event Center

A full festival for people who make things. Includes lots of geekery.

Startup Lessons Learned 2011 (20% Off)
When: Monday, May 23
Where: Hotel Nikko, SF

The lean startup conference of the year organized by Eric Ries and Charles Hudson.

10 Things Not To Do In Your Social Sharing Dialogs (Free)
When: Tuesday, May 24 @ 6:30pm
Where: Hacker Dojo, Mountian View

The name of the event says it all. The speaker will be Jonathan Trevor, creator of Yahoo! Pipes and Polyvore.

 

Top Upcoming Silicon Valley Startup Events

 

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SD5 – Top 5 SF Bay Area Startup Events

7/07/2010

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

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.
Startup Job Demo

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! 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

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 SF
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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Startup Waffles! Round 2

28/03/2010

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 :)

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