Frank Chandler

The International Startup Festival is a two-day conference on the business of startups. It brings together industry veterans and fresh faces, thought leaders and technology giants from around the world, for a series of lean, fast-paced events. It includes startup launches, inspiring keynotes, and deep-dives into mobility, gaming, and web...

Ante up for Startup Poker Night hosted by TokBox.  If you're interested in startups, work for one, or are in town for Founder's Showcase, stop by to play cards and meet like-minded people.   In celebration of the launch of Poker View's new webcam poker tables, powered by the OpenTok API, the munchies and booze are on us....

The Founder Institute will be hosting a free "Pitch Bootcamp" to help you articulate your startup business ideas. In just three hours we'll help you refine your idea, improve your pitch, and find a cofounder. Best of all it's free, there will be food, and many experienced CEOs will be in attendance. This hands-on, intensive...

Join us for a discussion of Start Up Legal Basics. Topics include: General Corporate Employment Intellectual Property Schedule: 6:30

Join 600 entrepreneurs for a full day conference that covers: finding co-founders, how to launch and get press and traction, how to improve your pitch to investors and more.

Speakers include Guy Kawasaki, Naval Ravikant, Loic Le Leur, Robert Scoble, Adeo Ressi, Tim Young, Jeff Clavier, George Zachary, Rebecca Lynn.

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...

Calling all Developers and Entrepreneurs!

APPNATION is all about helping you grow.

Its expert workshops distribution, discover-ability, monetization, meeting new partners, wooing investors, and developing clients.

We created this show to help you build a great business in this exciting new marketplace. And we have a range of affordable demo...

This is our monthly main event!
Agenda:
5:30PM: food and networking
6:00PM introduction
6:10PM Speakers/presentations.
Interested in speaking, demoing at, or sponsoring the Silicon Valley iOS Business Meetup? Please contact us.

As a first time entrepreneur – or maybe even a seasoned veteran! - How do you decide which is best for you, between angel & VC money?

While on the whole most angels and VCs are smart and successful people, who want their portfolio companies to be wildly successful, there are significant differences in the way they approach potential...

This April, the editors of VentureBeat will convene the top 180 mobile executives, investors and policymakers for an exclusive discussion that will shape the future of the mobile industry. At a time of explosive growth in the adoption of mobile technology, VentureBeat Summit participants will address five key business and policy challenges that...

This is a free event, but, we do ask everyone planning to attend to RSVP in advance.

WhereCamp is an unconference for people fascinated by place. We are an eclectic crowd ranging from urban cartographers, environmentalists, locative media artists, augmented reality developers, simulations and modeling theorists. Often people wanting to simply...

Update: Atlassian has decided to join in on the fun and will help ensure the bar stays open for most of the evening! :)

After a wildly successful inaugural meetup this past winter, we're happy to host another night of drinks and merriment for techies who enjoy hobnobbing it with their peers.

Join Plancast, Awe.sm, Flowtown and other...

The O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference continues to explore what's at stake at the intersection of location, mobile, and social. The premier conference for all things location-aware, Where 2.0 brings together CTOs, developers, technologists, researchers, geographers, business developers, entrepreneurs, and other stakeholders to shed light on...

CloudSlam’11® conference is the premier cloud computing event, covering latest trends and innovations in the world of cloud computing. Conference panels, workshops, and tutorials are selected to cover a range of the hottest topics in cloud computing.

SF New Tech turns 5! Celebrate with us!

And The Go Game, Flowdock, TryMyUI, Sococo, LetsLunch, ToutSuite.

Free Tacos

FOR THE FIRST
150 PEOPLE IN THE DOOR!!

Join AdRoll and Girls in Tech at John Colins for our 2nd Annual AdTech Happy Hour. Extended happy hour through 8:30, catering services provided by Wise Sons Deli.
We'll see you there!

As THE event for digital marketers, ad:tech features the industry's most entrepreneurial and innovative marketers. By attending, you'll have the opportunity to network and learn from experts on what's hot in social media, mobile, viral, cross-channel, application-based and geo-location marketing. You can also walk the ad:tech Expo...

UPDATE: Thursday's Demo Day sessions will be broadcast LIVE! Tune in at either 10:00AM PDT or 5:00PM PDT at www.livestream.com/500startups

This is an invite-only event to Accredited investors & 500 Startups mentors & advisors. If you have not already received an invitation, you can request one at the URL below.

There will be two...