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TechCafe Happy Hour @Appature
Tweet Here is an update from TechCafe… If you are counting, this is the first event of the year! We’ve been busy (as you may have noticed if you are a regular reader). We still love putting on tech events in Seattle though!! If you are itching for great events in between TechCafe events you should check out the events at Surf Incubator and Hub Seattle. We feel great that the community is growing here and are honored to be a part of it! At TechCafe we work with awesome startups and technology companies to offer brilliant technologists a few things for free. Sure you’ll be stuck in Appature‘s slick offices. Yes you will have to participate a little in the technical talk at the event or at least listen to the discussion that … Read entire article »
Filed under: career, Entrepreneurship, Lunch2.0, Lunch2.0, Lunch20-Seattle, NW events, Seattle, seattlelunch20, TechCafe
TechCafe: Free Lunches and Startup Launches
Tweet The growing Seattle technology community is an amazing place. There are giants like Amazon and Microsoft, there are incubators like Techstars, Eastside Incubator, and Founders Institute, there a number of Angels, a number of Venture Capitalists, a wealth of students from some great institutions, and of course no shortage of startups with raw willpower to succeed. The glue holding all of these together are the events where connections of all shapes and sizes happen. From the occasional networking meetup at a bar with no agenda, to Poker 2.0, to the more formal events put on by WTIA, NWEN, or MIT Forum. Without a healthy dose of events for developers to meet business counterparts, founders to find a designer looking for work, or a room full of people to launch or … Read entire article »
Filed under: Entrepreneurship, NW events, Seattle, seattlelunch20, Startups, TechCafe, Technology
TechCafe Launch Event
Tweet Do you have a product… even a minimally viable product that you are on the edge of showing to your peers? Do you want direct feedback from other developers, founders, and startup community members on what you have built, what you are launching? Maybe you are way past that and have an awesome new version or application that you want to launch with some of the communities best and brightest. The next TechCafe will encompass just that and if you want to get in line to be the next great company to launch your product at a TechCafe Launch event you need to attend the first in the series on September 17th. The idea comes from the demo series we did a year or so ago, but this time we are looking … Read entire article »
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Twitter Updates – 08/18/2012
Tweet Another great week and here are some of the tweets you missed. One thing that happened this week that didn’t make it onto my blog or tweets was I met Michael Foundos of TheCapRate.com – he is building the Zillow of commercial real estate. A cool idea, if you are a an investor in commercial real estate check it out http://thecaprate.com Treasury selling off $AIG at a profit… http://www.housingwire.com/news/treasury-reduces-aig-stake-53 The MEC schedule – http://thoughtsofanidlemind.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/mec2012/ #Exchange2013 #Office365 You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.- Paulo Coehlo Videos from the first TechCafe in 2007, recognize anyone? – http://www.npost.com/techcafe/2012/08/16/video-from-the-first-ever-techcafe-event/ (@Randfish, @davidgeller @elowitz) After the #TechCafe talk by @spencerrascoff about successful IPO’ing – http://awe.sm/k2ZM2 – Trulia files S1 http://awe.sm/b399z … Read entire article »
Filed under: blogging, Technology
TechCafe Lunch @Zillow
Tweet Have you thought about taking your startup public, dreamt of developing a great application or platform and going all the way to IPO? Over here at TechCafe we talk to loads of engineers, entrepreneurs, and community members who have been working on startups for years and never had the opportunity to go public. Usually the exits around here are filled with fizzles and acquisitions which are great ways to exit and prepare for the next adventure. That elusive IPO though, where we start to wonder if we can really call the startup a “startup” any longer and if the culture and product direction become inundated with needs to make Wall Street happy. It is intriguing and we are lucky to have a great company and community member share their recent experiences … Read entire article »
Filed under: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Investing, Lunch2.0, Lunch2.0, Lunch20-Seattle, NW events, Startups, TechCafe
TechCafe Lunch @Glympse
Tweet This is going to be an awesome event! We have Glympse hosting the next TechCafe!! Last week they announced a partnership with Mercedes-Benz to embed Glympse into the navigation system for the upcoming new Mercedes A-class. This came along with an announcement that they crossed the 3 million user mark. This week? They have asked TechCafe to help them celebrate!! Of course we wouldn’t do it without some insight into their business. So we will have a talk about getting to 3 Million users and of course a sneak peak at their upcoming mobile app. The details and registration, as always, are at http://techcafe.co/upcoming-events/ I hope to see you there!! … Read entire article »
Filed under: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Investing, Lunch2.0, Lunch2.0, Lunch20-Seattle, NW events, Seattle, seattlelunch20, Startups, TechCafe, Technology
TechCafe Happy Hour @Appature
Tweet As you may know, I run an event here in the Seattle area named TechCafe. It is a tech oriented event and mostly involves startups big and small in the area. We have been following one startup in Seattle more than any other. We partied on their roof four years ago. We heard them speak about fostering culture as they continued to grow the next year. They seemed to practice what they were preaching as they were still happily growing when we stopped back by their offices for a TechCafe Happy Hour kegger the following year. This year, not to let good traditions die, we’re going to check in on Appature in their new swanky office space on 1st & Union. Chris Hahn (Appatures CTO) will chat a bit about how … Read entire article »
Filed under: Seattle, seattlelunch20, Startups, TechCafe
Most Influential Failure
Tweet Well we’re back from Greece, it was amazing to see the ancient and future history at the same time. I also see that GeekWire has announced the continuation of the Seattle 2.0 awards (I won an award at the first Seattle 2.0 ceremony). I helped in judging this round and am excited to attend the event next week. I hope that you can attend as well. Reflecting on the categories after spending all this time in Greece, I am a bit sad that we don’t have a category to honor the lessons learned from failing to build a successful startup. Failure is something Greece has never looked at critically in their culture and increasingly it is something that we in the U.S. are failing to appreciate. Failing at things happens! As a father I can … Read entire article »
Filed under: career, Innovation, Lunch20-Seattle, Startups
