Tim Van Loan
Entrepreneur and Eater. Insatiably hungry for a life less ordinary.

Starting one, working for one, going public with one – startups seem to be the thing to do in SF. But how do you make your startup great? Ries, the guru behind the “Lean Startup” sensation, asks: Is your startup employee-centric and knowledge-obsessed? Is your company functioning at optimal efficiency? Is your office a fun place to work? Ries...

We're back-- bigger, badder, and better than ever with the third Startup Exits: Early Stage M&A event.

Ingredients:
+All-star lineup of M&A panelists from Silicon Valley's most active acquirers-- Google, AOL, Electronic Arts, Serious Business (acq. by Zynga), etc.
+Keynote by serial entrepreneur Russ Fradin, who sold Adify for...

Top Gun in Dolores Park!

Styling The Modern Man is an annual event developed to provide today's trendy contemporaries with an outlet for experiencing the latest in the men's luxury market. Our guests are treated to live entertainment, fashion presentations, grooming, and private experiential lounges; all designed with Modern Man in mind.
Guests will enjoy hosted...

Join previous Techcrunch Disrupt winners Getaround and Qwiki for their FTW Party on Tuesday night during Disrupt San Francisco! Getaround's very own DJ Kidhack will be spinning the tunes, with a free open bar provided by Bartab. You can get in with an Eventbrite RSVP or a Disrupt badge. And of course

  Join Girls in Tech, San Francisco and Tripping.com for cocktails after Day 2 of TechCrunch's Disrupt SF 2011! We'll be at Mars Bar (7th St and Brannan St), conveniently located just in front of the conference venue, so swing by and meet the Girls in Tech and Tripping communities. More about us. . . Tripping is a social travel site...

Invite Only

Happy Hour with BetterWorks, Trinet and Fenwick. Celebrating CEO's, HR and other leaders at SMB's.

TechCrunch Disrupt is a three-day, single-track conference and startup competition to immerse you in the debate about what's changing in technology right now, what's causing it and what we need to do about it to survive and thrive in real time.

TechCrunch Disrupt gathers the leaders and innovators of the technology and media industries...

"The Hack is Back And We Want It To Be The Biggest Ever

Saturday, September 10
1 pm Registration opens (come fed or bring a brown bag lunch, beverages served)
dedicated area for people to network to form hack teams
2 pm Hacking Kickoff
3 - 9 pm API workshops scheduled in 30 minute intervals
7 pm dinner
midnight food and snacks
...

Interested in the upcoming web and mobile Startup technologies, products, and the teams behind it all? Then you need to attend Pitch '11.

Join 2,000 attendees from the tech and Startup community and meet founders of the latest web and mobile Startups, get hands-on-demos, and make connections with other like-minded entrepreneurs.

Happening...

Are you achieving maximum value out of salesforce.com? The Cloud has not only changed the business model and implementation cycle for projects, it has changed the approach companies need to manage these applications post go-live. Yet 80% of customers do not have an effective strategy to manage change and innovate ongoing. See how leading companies...

Come join us @Rally on 8/25.
There are numerous reasons:

1. yes, there will be food & Lagunitas' finest on hand.
2. @gregarious will take a few minutes to preview the @getchute API.
3. you can go thru API endeavors of your own if you want.
4. you get to scope out the RallyPad.
5. the Rally team wants to meet you.

The RallyPad is...

Join us for a great mix of startup demos, networking, giveaways, drinks and fun on the best deck on all of Sand Hill Road.

http://tcrn.ch/pAK5x0

Twenty Five Lusk is one of San Francisco's most polished lounges with a delicious cocktail and bar bites menu. Come out for some great custom made, INFORUM specialty cocktails and a chance to connect with people from all walks of SF life. Plus, learn about some of our great upcoming events, such as the San Francisco James Beard Award winners...

With Summer just beginning, we'd like to welcome you to join us at one of SF's newest and most delicious drink-making lounges- Churchill. Come to our happy hour to enjoy some great drink specials, interesting people and intriguing conversations.

You'll also get a chance to meet INFORUM members both new and old and hear about some...

In conversation with Kara Swisher, Co-executive Editor, All Things D

Entrepreneur, programmer, botanist, jean designer, taxi cab enthusiast and wanna-be mayor of New York City – Dorsey is a Jack-of-all-trades. Best known for revolutionizing communication via Twitter, Dorsey is now making waves with his one-inch-by-one-inch device called...

Maker Faire is the World’s Largest DIY Festival - a two-day, family-friendly event to MAKE, create, learn, invent, CRAFT, recycle, think, play and be inspired by celebrating arts, crafts, engineering, food, music, science and technology. aker Faire is the premier event for grassroots American innovation. As the World's Largest DIY Festival,...

Come celebrate the 100th edition of Bay to Breakers and be a part of history! Registration will be limited to 50,000 people so sign up early.

Google I/O brings together thousands of developers for two days of deep technical content, focused on building the next generation of web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open web technologies such as Android, Google Chrome, Google APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more.

Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. The weekend brings together people with different skillsets - primarily software developers, graphics designers and business people - to build applications and develop a...

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.