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August Startup Events pt 2
Amazon’s doing it. Twitter’s doing it. EA’s doing it. New York Times, 37 signals, LivingSocial, Funny or Die, Yahoo, JP Morgan, NASA, half the hot startups you can think of… they’re all doing it. No, ‘it’ doesn’t mean ‘being amazing.’ ‘It’ means running on Ruby! Chances are that if you work in a company that [...]
Attending the Best Event
Every two weeks, I send out a list of over 30+ upcoming startup events in the Bay Area; there’s usually an event every night, with many days having even more. But your time is valuable: you have a product to build and customers to attract. So how do you know which are really worth your [...]
August Startup Events
Working with startups, you are probably familiar with the Lean Startup movement. It’s a field-tested philosophy that provides you with a toolset to minimize failure and increase your chances of success. There are hundreds of companies using it, from financial services companies like Wealthfront to social companies like IMVU to large corporations such as Intuit. [...]
Get Accepted To Speak
5 quick tricks on how to get your speaker submissions accepted more often.
July Startup Events
Lots of people have asked me if I have feedback or more info about 50Kings events so I thought I’d share some pictures that they showed me from their last trip and some of the things people said. Their next trip is a “Pirate War” which you can apply for here And don’t forget that our second FailChat [...]
June Bay Area Startup Events
Bay Area startup events for June and July
Comps For Friends
Friends support you, not mooch off you.
June Bay Area Startup Events
I wanted to remind you that I’ve brought back FailChats, with our first of the year on June 13th. We’ll be discussing Startup PR with Brandee Barker (recently of Facebook) on what lean startups can do for PR, and what to do if it goes wrong. Just a few tickets are left at http://failchat.mogotix.com Also, [...]
June Startup Events
I’m excited to tell you that Udemy is offering a huge deal to WebWallFlower subscribers for their startup courses. Over the past 6 months, they’ve convinced some of the best startup minds to share their knowledge on camera. Folks like Dave McClure, Naval Ravikant, Dan Martell, Adeo Ressi, Aaron Patzer and more. This resulted in 4 amazing [...]
May Startup Events
The best upcoming May Bay Area Startup Events