January 2012 Startup Events
Happy New Year! Excited for 2012? I sure am! I’m especially excited to hear what 50Kings has planned for this year. If you haven’t seen the Pictures from their Pirate War, they’re amazing. They even beached on Branson’s island. For 2012 they’ve told me there will be only one multi-day retreat and they’ve chartered planes to get there. No details on the website though, but I hear they’re considering invites by referral only. I’ll try to keep you posted.
A busy month for events, it is! I found hundreds, but hear are some of the ones that stood out.
-=Cass Phillipps=-
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UPCOMING BAY AREA STARTUP EVENTS
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.EVENT SPECIALS:
20% off – The Future of Mobile Design and Development Workshop
January 7th, 8am-5pm
Adobe (601 Townsend Street), SF
The Future of Mobile is an educational, full-day workshop, full of breakout sessions, keynote speeches, good food, and shwag! Sign up and learn the latest and greatest in HTML5, CSS3, iOS, Multi-platform development, and tips across Adobe’s Creative Suite. Plus,use Discount Code ‘HD‘ for 20% off. More information at http://mobiletabletpublishing.eventbrite.com/
10% off – Lean Startup Machine
Friday, January 13 – Sunday January 15
Dogpatch Labs (151 Lytton St), Palo Alto
Learn to build what customers want. Lean Startup Machine is a weekend bootcamp to help entrepreneurs understand their customers, invalidate assumptions, iterate rapidly, and reduce risk. Learn more at http://theleanstartupmachine.com/events/palo-alto-january-13/. Mention “WebWallflower” to receive an additional 10% off!
20% off – SF Beta: Metrics and Analytics
January 18th, 5:00 – 9:00pm
111 Minna Gallery
Now in its sixth year, SF Beta is a get-together for the vanguard of the internet: founders, hackers, students, investors, rockstars, creative geniuses, and more. Join more than 500 people for a stimulating evening of conversation, cocktails, and interactive demos, focused around the Bay Area’s early-stage startup and technology community. Our theme this month is Metrics & Analytics: meet up to a dozen startups turning big data into big insight, and discover the breathtaking innovation taking place at the vangaurd of the data movement. More information at http://sfbeta.com and use code “Webwallflower” for 20% off.
50% off Cocktails & Conversations: How to Create Buzz Around Your Startup
January 18, 6:30-9:30PM
Founders Den – 665 3rd Street, San Francisco
In the current climate of constant innovation and emergence of new startups, it’s essential to generate buzz around your company to attract new investors, customers, and talent. Join SecondMarket for an evening of Cocktails & Conversations and a candid discussion on “How to Create Buzz Around Your Startup.” Hear from a panel of experts to find out how to use communication and media tactics to engage with your audience and get people excited about your company and products. For more info, check out www.cocktailsandconversationscreatebuzzsf.eventbrite.com and use discount code “WallFlowerVIP” for 50% off!
20% off – Health Innovation Summit
January 18-20th
Fort Mason San Francisco
The Health Innovation Summit is a 3 day event focused on bringing great digital health solutions to market: Learn from experts about needs, opportunities, and stakeholders in the healthcare system, open technical challenges, digital health business models, technology platforms, and how to design great user experiences. Connect with developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and strategic partners including some of the biggest consumer and healthcare brands interested in digital health. Launch your own startup or watch others as they demo new products and services that will change healthcare as we know it today. More information at http://healthinnovationsummit.com and get 20% off tickets with code “CassPhillipps”
40% off – Startup Exits
January 19th, 5:00 – 9:00pm
RocketSpace, SF
Startup Exits is back and ready to kick some a**. For this round, we’re bringing in M&A pros from Dropbox, eBay, Evernote and Groupon. Jack Abraham (founded and sold Milo.com) will lead our keynote. As a bonus, Aydin Senkut of Felicis VC (20+ exits) will be featured in a fireside chat titled “Thoughts On The Exit From A VC’s Perspective.” As always, we’ll have cocktails, appetizers and the best startup CEO networking around. Come join in the fun! And how about a discount code while we’re at it: WebWallflower40 for 40% off! More information at http://startupexits.com
15% off – Node Summit 2012
January 24-25 8:00am-5:00pm
San Francisco, CA
Join business leaders and technology experts from companies like Microsoft, Joyent, VMWare and eBay as they discuss how Node.js is enabling the creation of real-time, high performance, scalable, networked applications. Speakers will deliver case studies that unveil how they’re using Node.js today to architect large-scale applications. In a series of interactive debates, panels, and keynote sessions, participants will also discuss how Node.js will impact businesses and consumers – coming up with visionary ideas for future implementations. Startups using node.js will be featured at on Day 2 with Node Jam emcee Naval Ravikant CEO of Angel List. More information at www.nodesummit.com and use the code “webwallflower” for 15% off.
$30 off – ClickMinded – 2 Day of SEO Enlightenment
Jan 28 & 29, 10:00-4:00pm
pariSoma @ 169 11th St, SF
Join us for a two-day SEO training seminar on Saturday and Sunday, January 28th and 29th. This seminar will be limited to 5 people total. We will cover as much content as humanly possible over the course of the two days including: Click-through rates, Keyword research, On & Off-page optimization, Link building, Social media, Reputation Management, Comprehensive Meta Data Analysis and lots more! Tommy Griffith is currently the SEO Manager for Emerging Markets at PayPal. More information and $30 off at http://clickmindedparisoma.eventbrite.com/?discount=WebWallflower
10% off – Content Marketing by Altimeter Group
February 8, 10:00a – 11:00a
Online
Join us in an informal webinar chat and Q&A with Rebecca Lieb, Altimeter Group analyst and author of the recently published book, Content Marketing, and a research report on how enterprises are adapting to the challenges of becoming publishers – not just advertisers. Each registrant receives a special discount code saving 30% on Rebecca’s Content Marketing book or ebook. More information at http://digitalcommercerebeccalieb.eventbrite.com Receive 10% off at eventbrite registration using promo code: webwallflower
10% off – The 10th SF MusicTech Summit
February 13, 9:00a – 5:30p
Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco
Join us in celebrating the 10th SF MusicTech Summit on Monday, February 13th, 2012! The Summit brings together over 1000 visionaries in the music/technology space, along with the best and brightest developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce. We meet to discuss the evolving music/business/technology ecosystem in a proactive, conducive to dealmaking environment. For more information, check out http://sfmusictech.com and get your discount with the code “promowebwallflower“.
10% off – Women 2.0 PITCH Event
February 14th, 9:00a – 5:00p
Mountain View, CA
Women 2.0 PITCH is a full day of product innovation leaders from Flickr, Facebook, Zipcar, TaskRabbit, LARK and more. Both men and women working in technology (from early-stage startup to corporate) are invited to learn from our speakers sharing best practices, growth strategies and stories of disruptive product development at their ventures. Hear about launching products from concept to cash – and customers! Watch the Women 2.0 Startup Competition finalists pitch live to a panel of investors for feedback and prizes. Network with 800+ members of the Women 2.0 community at our biggest event of the year! To register, visit http://women2.org/conference2012and save 10% with discount code “CASSIE”.
15% off for Employers – Ruby on Rails Employer-Developer Speed Dating (Developer Page Here)
Feb 16, 7-9:30 pm
pariSoma @ 169 11th St, SF
Since our last RoR Employer-Developer Speed Dating event was such a success, we couldn’t help hosting another! We had hot startups like Square, Groupon, & AirBnB there recruiting! This event will give you 15 face-to-face meetings (duration: 5 minutes each) with either top RoR developers or employers. We’ll start and wrap up the event with a free-form social hour where you will be able meet up to 35 more developers and up to 25 employers.
.SAN FRANCISCO EVENTS:
DEMO Enterprise Disruption Party
January 5th, 9:00pm – 1:00am
Temple Nightclub
Join us for a special DEMO New Year’s Party on January 5!! DEMO, the world’s leading launch conference platform for emerging technology and trends, announces DEMO Enterprise Disruption Party, sponsored by DEMO alumnus Fusion-io. We invite you to join Fusion-io, DEMO and VentureBeat as we open the doors to the club for a blowout party, open to DEMO alumni, the development community, press and VC’s. Enjoy your favorite “shagatini” at the open bar, courtesy of Fusion-io. Dance to the world-class stylings of sonic DJ, Eclectic Method Special prizes, event takeaways and more! More info at http://demopartysf2012.eventbrite.com
20% off – The Future of Mobile Design and Development Workshop
January 7th, 8am-5pm
Adobe (601 Townsend Street), SF
The Future of Mobile is an educational, full-day workshop, full of breakout sessions, keynote speeches, good food, and shwag! Sign up and learn the latest and greatest in HTML5, CSS3, iOS, Multi-platform development, and tips across Adobe’s Creative Suite. Plus,use Discount Code “HD” for 20% off. More information at http://mobiletabletpublishing.eventbrite.com/
Startups: From Idea to Exit
January 12th, 6:00 – 9:00pm
200 McAllister Street
Learn from a team of pros how to build a money-making startup. Silicon Valley’s top VCs, CEOs and Engineers will share the insight into how successful start-ups work. We’ll cover: How to write a bullet-proof business plan: How to build the rockstar team: How to get to profitability fast: How to raise capital without loosing your start-up: How to negotiate with investors: How to get acquired by Google, and other big players: and much more. Learn more at http://www.meetup.com/Startup-Funders-and-Founders/events/39279472/
20% off – SF Beta: Metrics and Analytics
January 18th, 5:00 – 9:00pm
111 Minna Gallery
Now in its sixth year, SF Beta is a get-together for the vanguard of the internet: founders, hackers, students, investors, rockstars, creative geniuses, and more. Join more than 500 people for a stimulating evening of conversation, cocktails, and interactive demos, focused around the Bay Area’s early-stage startup and technology community. Our theme this month is Metrics & Analytics: meet up to a dozen startups turning big data into big insight, and discover the breathtaking innovation taking place at the vangaurd of the data movement. More information at http://sfbeta.com and use code “Webwallflower” for 20% off.
50% off Cocktails & Conversations: How to Create Buzz Around Your Startup
January 18, 6:30-9:30PM
Founders Den – 665 3rd Street, San Francisco
In the current climate of constant innovation and emergence of new startups, it’s essential to generate buzz around your company to attract new investors, customers, and talent. Join SecondMarket for an evening of Cocktails & Conversations and a candid discussion on “How to Create Buzz Around Your Startup.” Hear from a panel of experts to find out how to use communication and media tactics to engage with your audience and get people excited about your company and products. For more info, check out www.cocktailsandconversationscreatebuzzsf.eventbrite.com and use discount code “WallFlowerVIP” for 50% off!
20% off – Health Innovation Summit
January 18-20th
Fort Mason San Francisco
The Health Innovation Summit is a 3 day event focused on bringing great digital health solutions to market: Learn from experts about needs, opportunities, and stakeholders in the healthcare system, open technical challenges, digital health business models, technology platforms, and how to design great user experiences. Connect with developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and strategic partners including some of the biggest consumer and healthcare brands interested in digital health. Launch your own startup or watch others as they demo new products and services that will change healthcare as we know it today. More information at http://healthinnovationsummit.com and get 20% off tickets with code “CassPhillipps”
40% off – Startup Exits
January 19th, 5:00 – 9:00pm
RocketSpace, SF
Startup Exits is back and ready to kick some a**. For this round, we’re bringing in M&A pros from Dropbox, eBay, Evernote and Groupon. Jack Abraham (founded and sold Milo.com) will lead our keynote. As a bonus, Aydin Senkut of Felicis VC (20+ exits) will be featured in a fireside chat titled “Thoughts On The Exit From A VC’s Perspective.” As always, we’ll have cocktails, appetizers and the best startup CEO networking around. Come join in the fun! And how about a discount code while we’re at it: WebWallflower40 for 40% off! More information at http://startupexits.com
15% off – Node Summit 2012
January 24-25 8:00am-5:00pm
San Francisco, CA
Join business leaders and technology experts from companies like Microsoft, Joyent, VMWare and eBay as they discuss how Node.js is enabling the creation of real-time, high performance, scalable, networked applications. Speakers will deliver case studies that unveil how they’re using Node.js today to architect large-scale applications. In a series of interactive debates, panels, and keynote sessions, participants will also discuss how Node.js will impact businesses and consumers – coming up with visionary ideas for future implementations. Startups using node.js will be featured at on Day 2 with Node Jam emcee Naval Ravikant CEO of Angel List. More information at www.nodesummit.com and use the code “webwallflower” for 15% off.
The Most Influential People On The Web
January 25th, 7:00 – 10:00pm
Eventbrite HQ, SF
Cascade FS is hosting a web discussion panel about the future of the web, CSS & front end development, work productivity, and more. Join panelists Tantek Çelik, Beau Smith, Jacob Thornton, and Andy Smith for this incredible evening talk. Sign up at http://cascade-panel.eventbrite.com/
$30 off – ClickMinded – 2 Day of SEO Enlightenment
Jan 28 & 29, 10:00-4:00pm
pariSoma @ 169 11th St, SF
Join us for a two-day SEO training seminar on Saturday and Sunday, January 28th and 29th. This seminar will be limited to 5 people total. We will cover as much content as humanly possible over the course of the two days including: Click-through rates, Keyword research, On & Off-page optimization, Link building, Social media, Reputation Management, Comprehensive Meta Data Analysis and lots more! Tommy Griffith is currently the SEO Manager for Emerging Markets at PayPal. More information and $30 off at http://clickmindedparisoma.eventbrite.com/?discount=WebWallflower
Vator Splash SF
February 2nd, 4:00 – 11:00pm
Cafe Du Nord
The Splash event, hosted by Vator, is a single-track evening event and startup competition. Splash gathers leading entrepreneurs, innovators and financiers across technology to inspire and energize the audience about entrepreneurship and innovation. Splash brings together high-caliber speakers who talk about how to build and scale great successful companies, how their industries are changing and the opportunities those changes are creating. More information at http://vatorsplash.eventbrite.com/
10% off – The 10th SF MusicTech Summit
February 13, 9:00a – 5:30p
Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco
Join us in celebrating the 10th SF MusicTech Summit on Monday, February 13th, 2012! The Summit brings together over 1000 visionaries in the music/technology space, along with the best and brightest developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce. We meet to discuss the evolving music/business/technology ecosystem in a proactive, conducive to dealmaking environment. For more information, check out http://sfmusictech.com and get your discount with the code “promowebwallflower“.
15% off for Employers – Ruby on Rails Employer-Developer Speed Dating (Developer Page Here)
Feb 16, 7-9:30 pm
pariSoma @ 169 11th St, SF
Since our last RoR Employer-Developer Speed Dating event was such a success, we couldn’t help hosting another! We had hot startups like Square, Groupon, & AirBnB there recruiting! This event will give you 15 face-to-face meetings (duration: 5 minutes each) with either top RoR developers or employers. We’ll start and wrap up the event with a free-form social hour where you will be able meet up to 35 more developers and up to 25 employers.
.BAY AREA EVENTS:
SV NewTech
January 3rd, 6:00 – 9:00pm
DLA Piper, Palo Alto
Learn about hot new web technologies and mingle with 200+ fellow entrepreneurs, investors, bloggers, and tech enthusiasts. This meetup fills up quickly, so be sure to RSVP two weeks early each month. We announce the lineup the day of the meetup, and we always feature four interesting companies. For more information, check out www.meetup.com/svnewtech/events/42834152/
Startup Nation: Is the Party Over, or Just Begining?
January 10th, 6:30 – 9:30pm
Fenwick & West, Mountain View
Join venture capitalist Jonathan Medved in a group discussion on the state of the startup industry: innovation, financing, growth, and more. Learn more at http://jhtc.org
10% off – Lean Startup Machine
Friday, January 13 – Sunday January 15
Dogpatch Labs (151 Lytton St), Palo Alto
Learn to build what customers want. Lean Startup Machine is a weekend bootcamp to help entrepreneurs understand their customers, invalidate assumptions, iterate rapidly, and reduce risk. Learn more at http://theleanstartupmachine.com/events/palo-alto-january-13/. Mention “WebWallflower” to receive an additional 10% off!
Founders Showcase
January 19th, 3:30 – 10:00pm
Microsoft, Mountain View
The Founder Showcase is a quarterly open start-up pitch and networking event that highlights seed- stage businesses, helping founders gain traction among the Silicon Valley elite. The event is hosted by TheFunded.com, a community of over 15,000 registered CEOs to rate sources of venture capital and discuss all things small business. It is a great opportunity for Founders and CEOs seeking funding to learn from the CEO presentations and pitches, as well as meet investors and service providers. For more information, check out http://http://foundershowcase.com
ERT: New Games, New Plans, & HTML5
January 19th, 6:00 – 9:30p
Pillsbury Law Firm, Palo Alto
Sounds like a lot going on? Oh, yeah. You bet! We’ve got a great keynote speaker Dan Fidan and line-up of game and HMTL5 starups to fire up the 2012 Dragon for you! Learn more and reserve your spot at http://ertnewgamehtml5.eventbrite.com/
Law and Economics of Aftermarkets
January 31, 12:00-1:30pm
Palo Alto, CA (Venue TBD)
This presentation will introduce participants to the basic concepts of aftermarkets (including platforms and apps). We will survey both the state of the law and some open legal questions surrounding survival as an aftermarket player in the modern economy. The presentation will be of special interest to app and add-on developers, manufacturers of devices with embedded software, and investors, analysts, and attorneys who work in these markets. Presented by Dr.Bruce Abramson of Rimon, P.C. This presentation is approved for 1 hour of California CLE Credit. For more information, check out http://rimon.eventbrite.com/
Leveraging Social Media Partners
Feb. 7th, Mar 5th, 12th, 19th, & 26th at 6:30-9:30p
UCSC (2505 Augustine Drive), Santa Clara
Social media networks have become one of the fastest ways to attract valuable partners. This course covers the use of the social landscape – opportunities, platforms, tools metrics and best practices – to find partners and delve into the 3 Ms of partner experience – Manage, Maximize and Measure. Students learn how to use word of mouth advertising, collect vital business and product opportunity insight and harvest Facebook. We ask our students to develop a partner social plan. Components are promotions, lead generation, branding and partner campaigns. Industry guests include @IreneKoehler @kennyair. More information at http://www.facebook.com/partnersocial
10% off – Women 2.0 PITCH Event
February 14th, 9:00a – 5:00p
Mountain View, CA
Both men and women are invited to attend the 5th Annual Women 2.0 PITCH Conference. Meet and network with over 800 investors, entrepreneurs, engineers, designers, product managers, marketers, biz dev, etc. at our biggest event of the year! The agenda is packed with top speakers, case studies and dynamic panel discussions on women-led technology solutions from companies like Facebook, Zipcar, Chomp, TaskRabbit, LARK and more. Save 10% with discount code “CASSIE” when you register at http://www.women2.org/conference2012
PlugandPlay TechCenter Events
Daily!
So PlugandPlay TechCenter has a ton of awesome events, and it would take an entire newsletter just to share them all. Skim their calendar regularly to see what they have to offer.http://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/calendar/
SVASE Series
Weekly
SVASE, the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs, is the largest and fastest growing nonprofit association in Northern California dedicated exclusively to helping early stage tech entrepreneurs. They hold events regularly in the peninsula, and occasionally the city itself. There are too many to name in my brief email, but be sure to check them out for advice on investment, team development, financing, corporate leadership, and much more: http://www.svase.org/
Founders Space
Founders Space brings together founders, angels, VCs, advisers, and innovators to help start-ups rock the world. You can ask questions, join a Founders Round Table, tell your story, or become an Adviser. Visit http://FoundersSpace.com
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I’m definitely going to check out most of these things! Does anyone happen to know of any other cool events/things to do in the SF area? My husband and I just moved here for work (we sell produce) and am always looking for ways to meet cool people. I think I’m going to this event on the 9th. It’s supposed to be a really intuitive guide to personal success…or something. lol!
http://www.productivelearning.com/for-individuals/mega-event.html