Aaron Batalion

Join the developers, entrepreneurs, and innovators who are creating a more social web. Hosted by Facebook, this is its official developer's conference.

A night of exceptional beverages, hot jamz, and fierce competition. Together, we shall raise our pint glasses and plastic cups in revelry to celebrate a great year in web design.

This year, the BeerCamp competition will take form in a flip cup tournament.

The second annual Tech Cocktail SXSW will kick off the third annual SXSW Accelerator program and showcase 30+ early stage startups for an evening of conversation. The event is aimed at better connecting, educating and amplifying the SXSW Interactive community.

Join us for an evening of fun mingling with other technology enthusiasts, innovators,...

We're gathering Austin's best food trucks together for an afternoon of BBQ, tacos, meat pies and more.

Download Foodspotting for Secret Menu items and to participate in a photo scavenger hunt - win prizes!

Featuring the following Food Truck stars:
- Along Came a Slider
- Boomerang's Pies
- Chi'Lantro
- Clem's Hot Diggity...

INVITE ONLY - Calling all GEEKS, NERDS, and PIRATES!

We're throwing an invite-only party after we throw down some serious build/measure/learn talks at our SXSWi track, "The Lean Startup" on March 12th.

Are you geeky enough to pass our muster?

If you'd like to join our private post-party (say that 3 times quickly), apply...

Our annual get together pulling in Ruby and Rails developers from all over the world. Sponsored by Gowalla, Capital Thought, PeopleAdmin, and Rackspace!

To enter, you'll need to answer a simple programming question.

Every service you use bombards you with email. Status updates, notifications, nudges. Whether you call it spam, bac'n, or even just effective, it's certainly annoying. We can do better, though. We can create web apps that get more valuable, not less, when users don't visit every single day, and we can use email in more valuable ways...

An official SXSW Interactive track on March 12th from 9:30am - 6:00pm, The Lean Startup SXSW is a full day of talks and sessions on lean startup methods led by entrepreneurs who are killin' it.

Too much junk in the trunk? Get rid of those startup love handles at SXSW with 500 Startups & Eric Ries.

AGENDA ANNOUNCED: Check out...

In this Ignite we’ll ask 16 experts in their fields to look ahead 10 years and help us understand how our every day lives will be affected by advances in technology and society. This will be an official SXSW event promoted in the booklet and directory. Anyone with a SXSW badge can attend without a ticket but we still would appreciate if you would...

Running a business can be intimidating, frustrating, and stressful if you don't really understand the fundamentals of how every successful business works.

Life gets much easier once you understand what you're doing: if you correct your business mental models, you'll quickly achieve a "Triple Double" - doubling...

Attending SXSW Interactive this year? Stop by the PepsiCo Playground in the Austin Convention Center throughout Interactive for a chance to recharge your phone, quench your thirst, or grab a snack. Visitors will have a chance to sample some of the many brands that make up PepsiCo, including SoBe, Sun Chips, Sabra Hummus, Tropicana's new Trop...

South by Southwest (SXSW) is a combination of film, interactive and music festivals & conferences that take place every March in Austin, Texas.

Five days of presentations, networking events, and more showcasing the best new emerging technology, digital works, video games, and innovative ideas.

SXSW Interactive badges are available starting at 11am on Thursday, March 10th. You’ll have the badge but official events don’t start until the next day so... now what?

Why not stop by for a quick beer, game, snack or just say hi at one of the many downtown tech companies from 4pm to 10pm?

You’ll be in good company, because 150...

Produced by 500 Startups in partnership with OtherInbox and AwayFind...

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WHAT?
A 1-day conference on the future of email and the inbox as a platform, covering topics like platform wars, the social inbox, email behavior (in reality), email as a CRM, marketing & distribution, customer acquisition,...

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Join Microsoft and Bloomingdales for "Geek 2 Chic," an intimate fashion show featuring the capital region's top techies trading in their computers for the catwalk - all for a good cause!

Karen Sommer Shalett, the Editor-in-Chief of DC Magazine, will be your MC and Host for the evening.

Tickets are $45 for general admission, and...

It's my birthday (week), and my roommate Lauren and I have been here about a month...the only thing missing is some good people to come visit.

We'll have some beer, wine, and assorted good foods from the neighborhood. Hope to see you there!

(by the way, we're 2 blocks from from the N Judah and off the 33, 37, and many other bus...

Warm Gun is a new 1-day conference on October 8th in San Francisco for designers & non-designers to learn about elegant, purposeful, and measurable online design.

Brought to you by Dave McClure & 500 Startups.

http://warmgun.com

I'm back in town for a few days. So I thought I'd bring a few friends together since it's my birthday...and because it'd be fun to see The Social Network.

So, come by sometime between 7-9pm for drinks or a bite and then we'll head over to Regal at Gallery Place to see the Facebook movie at 9:50pm.

I've got TEN...

If you had five minutes on stage, what would you say to Washington, DC?  What if you only had 20 slides and they rotated automatically every 15 seconds? On Thursday, September 30 at 6 pm, 16 artists, technologists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers will answer this challenge at Ignite DC  #5 -- with a focus on visions of the future.  The event...

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After hosting our largest ever TECH cocktail DC startup and entrepreneurial mixer event during DCWEEK, we are excited to be hosting our final DC event of 2010. The event is aimed at better connecting, educating and amplifying the local technology community.

Join us for...

I'm heading off to San Francisco. I'd like to catch up with a bunch of you before...so this'll just be a casual gathering at my house. There'll be food and drinks, and hopefully plenty of time to catch up with or meet great people.

You can read more about my trip out west here:...

The first batch of August Capital summer party tickets will be released on Friday (7/2) at 9 am pst. The August Capital summer outing is 5:30 – 10:00 pm on Friday, July 30. Tickets will be released weekly in batches. Stay tuned, they sell out quickly.