Eric Edelstein
http://www.EricEdelstein.com

Update: 6 Spin Street is a great restaurant and you can eat there from 5:30. But it's essential to book:
021 461 0666 or reservations@6spinstreet.co.za

There will be a cash bar.

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Guest speaker: Yvonne Rogers, Director of the Interaction Centre at University College London

Behavioural Nudge or Technological Fudge?

We all have a pet...

*** Instead of creating new events each week, we are just going to be re-editing this event each time. ***

We have been meaning to get some of the Sleek Geek CT members together for a while now, enough talking and let's DO IT!

Zac wants to organize a 1-3 times weekly hike so let's see how many are keen for this Saturday and we can go...

Friends, Couchsurfers, global cyclists, lend me your ears!

I come to challenge the world famous cycling tour: the 35th Edition of Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour......

Are you ready for some serious action-packed cycling this Sunday?

Come support fellow cyclists, cheer them on as they embark on this EPIC journey! Participants I know of so far:
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SLEEKGEEK CHALLENGE ENTRY INFORMATION

The 2nd SleekGeek Challenge is here people and entries are open to ALL.

Are you ready to join us and transform yourself, get fit for business and feel like a legend in 12 weeks time?

The 12 week/84 day Challenge runs from Feb 1 – April 23 2012.

We also have a few resident fitness experts to contribute...

We&rsquo;re having a party! Why? Well, because it&rsquo;s about time we got Capetonian UX and CS people together in one spot. And with us being user-centred and all, that spot should really be a bar. A<a href="http://www.albalounge.co.za/gallery/slider1/">

WordCamp Cape Town 2011 is an informal gathering of WordPress enthusiasts, bloggers, podcasters, developers and designers. The event will bring all these people together, under one roof, for a full day.

The day will begin at 8:30 am and end at 6:00pm on Thursday the 15th of September.

WordCamp Cape Town 2011 event will be all about WordPress....

Yup, it's content strategy time again, folks. Another Content Strategy Cape Town meetup and once again we&rsquo;re lucky enough to be hosting it at the swanky Alba Lounge at the V&A Waterfront.

People seem keen for Indian, so let's go here next! A number of people have said the food is great here. I've heard their veg meals are especially good (no, this is pure coincidence I promise you I love my meat!).

To prevent a repeat of what happened with Lola's, I've made a tentative booking already. If you know others who...

It is Birthday time and my first one in cape town!!
Who better to celebrate with than all you delicious peeps that have already made my cape town experience something extraordinary!

Please join me at Chukkachurri in Greenpoint for some much needed puza thursday drinks!

Much love

Paddy x

Hi 106ers,

Once again, thanks to our sponsor
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Visa</a> cause, we're planning something grand for you
all!
Please join us on Wednesday, June 15, from 6-9 P.M. to meet and
eat....

TEDxSF seeks to develop and leverage the TED experience at a regional level, bringing together innovators and inspirational speakers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Join us as we host Naval Ravikant for a fireside chat. Naval needs little introduction as the founder at Epinions, Vast, Venturehacks and the red hot AngelList. Feeling inadequate yet? He's also an investor in FourSquare, Twitter, Jambool (Google), Plancast, Uber, DISQUS, and more.

Come mingle with other entrepreneurs or aspiring...

First SF Open Coffee will be Thursday May 19 in SOMA.

The team over at Adku has offered to host our first event and their will be coffee, orange juice, and some breakfast food for everyone.

Come hang out, talk tech, and enjoy some fresh coffee.

Any question: @adaugelli

The majority of people who attend are developers who want to found a startup, who are working on a startup or who are serial entrepreneurs.

Topics of conversation include hackery in general, startups, shiny new technologies we're playing with, recent articles on Hacker News and miscellaneous cool stuff.

Special guests

Tech BA participants...

<a href="http://www.crowdflower.com">CrowdFlower</a> invites you to join us on Tuesday, May 3 for a night of networking, interactive presentations, and thought-provoking conversations. As well as tasty food and cold drinks!
The following speakers will come to the <a href="http://dschool.stanford.edu/">Stanford...

Startup Grind welcomes Shasta Ventures Principal Sean Flynn to a fireside chat. Before joining Shasta Ventures, Sean worked at Yahoo in various product management and business development roles. He played a major role in the acquisitions of companies like Zimbra, Dialpad, and Oddpost. Prior to that he advised technology and telecom for Morgan...

Topic: "The Cool Factor: How to Attract Talent, VCs and Advisors to Your Startup" with Howard Hartenbaum of August Capital; Jonathan Baer of Threshold Ventures; Mark Greenough of Greenough Consulting Group.

It's about hanging out, having a beverage and talking about...

* Why Node.js is total awesome sauce for my startup
* Why Lisp is not the awesome sauce for startups it once was
* Show off our latest proof of P vs NP for fun and profit
* Did Color develop amazing photo sharing techology, or is it an elaborate cover for their stealth mode...

The Data 2.0 Conference connects over 50 speakers, company and startup demos and 500+ participants around in the new data economy. From Google Fusion Tables and SimpleGeo, to Socrata and Rapleaf, Data 2.0 organizes the top data innovators.

Register here: http://data2con.com/register/
Get 25% off by registering before March 25.
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Berlin Partner GmbH, the official Premier Exhibitor, at this year’s Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, will light the streets with their new ‘ich bin ein berliner’ campaign. The capital city’s promotion agency will be accompanied to San Francisco by a dozen Berlin based Web 2.0 companies where they will have the opportunity to meet and...

One of the biggest challenges facing the VC industry is liquidity. The time to liquidity for portfolio companies has been steadily rising for years. And with IPOs less prevalent, M&A now comprises a majority of exits. So what do corporate buyers look for in an M&A deal? What is the "special formula" that makes one startup...

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106 Miles joins Hackers & Founders in welcoming Naval Ravikant to the Microsoft stage. Naval will give a talk entitled "Hacking your Funding Process".

Celebrate the Bizily Beta Launch:
Pier 38, March 16, 5:30-8:30PM

We’ve been working hard on Bizily and are ready to show it to you - the best users in the world. We could give you all the details about Bizily and how it will transform your business. And we will. On Wednesday March 16th, the Bizily team will be throwing a little party to toast...

Announcing our 3rd Data 2.0 SF Meetup at the new pariSoma startup incubator space in SF!

The March 10th meetup will include 2 speakers including the CTO of UrbanMapping John Marshall and Gigaom writer Brett Sheppard as well as 2 startup demos from PlantSense.com as well as a midVentures in-house data project.
This will be the last meetup before...