By Larry Chiang
People often ask me what events are cool. If you’re coming to Stanford for the summer for ENGR 145, check out: Silicon Valley Startup Digest – May 7, 2012. It comes out once a week.
This is coolest stuff in silicon valley.
Subscribe by emailing Chris @startupDigest.com On twitter at @mccanatron
Another source is Plancast.
This business that Chris McCann started is an example of a lemonade stand business where the concept is straitforward, but the execution is awesome. It is also an example of a sequel business that is a sequel to a business that you did not start. > >
> Silicon Valley StartupDigest > Life is too short to work at a boring company. Meet the best startups here. > > Here is a small experiment I am trying. The StartupDigest Brain Trust is a list of people I know well enough to make a friendly personal intro to. > > If you want to talk to any of these people request an introduction and I can make it happen. > > – Chris > > Silicon Valley StartupDigest is curated by: > Chris McCann – Co-Founder, StartupDigest > Santiago Zavala – Partner, Mexican.vc > > > Silicon Valley StartupDigest is supported exclusively by: > How do investors distinguish promising, breakthrough companies from the ordinary? Listen to pioneering investment banker Bill Hambrecht’s insights about underwriting seminal startups such as Apple, Genentech, Adobe and more. In this podcast from the Kauffman Foundation, Hambrecht shares more than 50 years of experience riding the tech revolution wave. > > > What’s Going On in the Silicon Valley Startup Community > David Hornik Unplugged: No Question Left Unanswered (25% off with StartupDigest) > Monday, May 07 @5:30PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > An open Q&A session with David Hornik, a partner at August Capital. > > Code for America Salon (Free with “Startup”) > Monday, May 07 @6PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > Code for America is hosting their first Salon event with Ellen Miller of the Sunlight Foundation which works on government transparency and Tom Steinberg of mySociety which works to help people become more important in the democratic process. > > Women Who Code – Front-end Web Dev Study Group (Free) > Monday, May 07 @7PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > The is the first meeting of the group that will meet every week for the next 3 months. > > ER Accelerator Demo Day (Free) > Wednesday, May 09 @6PM | Mountain View | View in Calendar > > A demo day in partnership with 500 Startups with 10 startups from New York City. > > Intro to Relational/SQL Database Design (Free) > Wednesday, May 09 @6:30PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > A talk on the basics of designing and setting up a database schema. > > FailChat: UX Comes First ($20) > Wednesday, May 09 @6:30PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > A chat with Kate Rutter of LUXr on common mistakes made by founders in the early stages of product design. > > FashTech Insight (15% off with StartupDigest) > Thursday, May 10 @6PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > An event about how the fashion industry is using data with Michael Preysman of Everlane, Lester Lee of Polyvore, and David Yoo of Sugar Inc. > > Startup Triad – Fearless Female Founders ($15) > Thursday, May 10 @6:30PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > A discussion with Alexa Andrzejewski, co-founder of Foodspotting, and Poornima Vijayashanker, co-founder of BizeeBee, on the life of a women founder, gender equality, and an open Q&A session. > > The Future of the Design Founder ($20) > Thursday, May 10 @7PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > A talk about starting a company as a designer with Jackson Wilkinson, who previously led design at Posterous and LinkedIn. > > Soapbox with Jeff Atwood (Free) > Friday, May 11 @12PM | Campbell | View in Calendar > > Jeff Atwood discusses how he build Stack Overflow using the best parts of Wikis, Digg, Forums, and Blogs. > > Mobile Gaming Hackathon (Free) > Friday, May 11-13 | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > A 2-day hackathon to build a fun mobile game. > > Building a Strong Internal Startup Culture ($20) > Monday, May 14 @6PM | Mountain View | View in Calendar > > A discussion on building strong company culture with Leah Busque of TaskRabbit and Julia Hartz of Eventbrite. > > WeWork Labs SF Launch Party (Free) > Monday, May 14 @6PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > WeWork Labs, which started in NYC, is moving to Silicon Valley and throwing a launch party to celebrate. > > NoSQL & Big Data ($40) > Tuesday, May 15 @6PM | Palo Alto | View in Calendar > > A discussion on big data and the infrastructure behind it with Doug Cutting, creator of Hadoop, Max Schireson, president of 10gen, and James Phillips, co-founder of Couchbase. > > Crowdsourcing Work and Consuming Collaboratively Meetup (Free) > Tuesday, May 15 @6PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > A group and talks on crowdsourcing with Jason Shen of Ridejoy, Kanyi Maqubela of the Collaborative Fund, and Anthony Goldbloom of Kaggle. > > Designing for Startups ($20) > Tuesday, May 15 @7PM | San Francisco | View in Calendar > > A class about the basics of design with Chris Jennings, director of user experience at Disqus. > > See all of the events in the Silicon Valley StartupDigest calendar. > > > Top Upcoming Silicon Valley Startup Events > May 16 – Code Social (Free) > May 16 – Startup Grind Hosts Jason Putorti ($20) > May 19 – NextGen Conference (20% off with StartupDigest) > May 19 – Mobile Do-A-Thon ($80) > May 19 – Datafest. Analyzing campaign finance data (Free) > May 21 – The Blueseed Project ($20) > May 21 – Palo Alto CIO Jonathan Reichental: Government, Open Data, and Apps (Free) > May 22 – UX: What Not to Do ($25) > May 23 – EdTech Investor Panel (Free) > May 24 – Designers + Geeks ($15) > May 31 – HealthTech Mixer (20% off with StartupDigest) > June 01 – Code for America Accelerator Application Date > June 20 – The First Steps to Starting a Startup (10% off with StartupDigest10) > > > StartupDigest VIP > Life is too short to work at a boring company. Meet the best startups here. > > > Join StartupDigest | Our Story | Events | Articles | Books | Videos | Suggest > > You are receiving this email because you are an active member of the Silicon Valley startup community. > > StartupDigest is a registered trademark of NextDigest, Inc. Copyright 2009-2012. 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Larry speaks on stuff they don't teach in B-school to help you get street smart in doing business. In college, he started a business that helps college students with their FICO score. He loves entrepreneurs, Ben and Jerry's ice cream and after parties. You can reach him at:
