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Thank you to our sponsor Silicon Valley Bank!

There will be events. There will be appetizers and beverages. There will be prizes.

Venue size: 150 people

Contact: Becca Gallery will be the main contact. @quickleft, becca [at] quickleft [dot] com, (303) 242-5536

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Get to know other hackers, hustlers and founders while riding bikes! (Bring your own bike, or grab one from Boulder Bcycle: http://boulder.bcycle.com/)

Meet at: Bitter Bar

Contact: Follow us @techcruisers or email techcruisers [at] gmail [dot] com

Come hang out with the Mocavo team in our awesome downtown location! We're bringing in plenty of local craft beer, including a few custom kegs created just for the debut of our newly-renovated office. Network with TechStars graduates and many others in Boulder's startup scene. We'll have amazing beer, good people, and a few awesome...

Social media influencers are wielding their power, mobilizing movements and causing the slow, crippling death of the banner ad. Join us for beer, tacos, and a throw-down on whether influencer marketing is advocacy or advertising, evolutionary or evil, change agent or just chatter.

Venue size (max # of people): 100

Contact: holly [@] theblogfrog...

Join Tekhne.co and Hacks/Hackers in co-producing a 48-hour magazine about Boulder Startup Week as a massive salute to local entrepreneurs.

Try out that mobile reporting app you've had your eye on in a loving, supportive, no-pressure environment so you can go back and wow your friends and editors. Join our project team to help create the first...

We are bringing in the Verde Taco Truck for breakfast tacos!

Venue size (max # of people): 50
Contact: @hellopushio @pushio or maegan [@] push [dot] io

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helps the organizer know how many to expect. However, space can be
limited, and this does not guarantee there will be a...

AppliedTrust is hiring, and we’d love for you to come by and check out our office, meet some of our team, and get an idea of what it would be like to work with us. We’ll be serving Colorado craft beer from our geek-chic kegerator, as well as some tasty tapas. Stop in and say hi!

Venue size (max # of people): 150
Contact: Steve Hathaway- steve...

Hosted by: Viget

Doors close at 2:30! Free drink ticket to the first 70 people.

It's no secret that creating a great experience for users is critical to a successful startup. But doing that in a startup environment can be challenging. Limited resources, small teams, and the pressure to get something, anything, out the door can sink even the...

Ascend to the Occipital office laboratory to check out cutting-edge computer vision tech demos and chat about the future of camera-based mobile applications while sipping on lab-inspired drink like "Rocket Fuel."

Venue size (max # of people): 50

Questions? Contact @vikasreddy or @savvysarahjane


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What happens when you move to Boulder? A LOT. It's pretty amazing how easy it is to get plugged into the community here. Instead of just reading about it, come meet people who have moved here in the last year and hear how easily they've integrated into the community. And yes. There will be beer :)

Venue Size: 100 people

Contact: Ryan...

Hosted by Laszlo Law. Our lawyers will speak and field questions about what legal issues to consider when organizing your startup and legal issues you will face from day one. From deciding whether to be an LLC or an INC to whether your independent contractor is actually an employee, the decisions a startup makes in its early days can minimize or...

The Foursquare Day story is one about people, ideas, community, Tampa Bay, social media, and crazy deadlines. Foursquare Day started as whimsical thought by Nate Bonilla-Warford. An optometrist by training, he has been a dabbler in social media for years. Immediately after Foursquare became available in the Tampa Bay area, he very quickly saw its...

The Mashable SXSWi House 2012 will break the mold of traditional SXSWi events. Working with SXSWi and our partner sponsors, on Sunday, March 11 we will offer an exciting evening of music and networking. In addition, the Mashable editorial team will be in Austin in full force.

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Date: Sunday, March 11, 2012
Time: 9pm-2am
Location: Buffalo...

The Mashable SXSWi House 2012 will break the mold of traditional SXSWi events. Working with SXSWi and our partner sponsors, on Sunday, March 11 we will offer an exciting evening of music and networking. In addition, the Mashable editorial team will be in Austin in full force.

Date: Sunday, March 11, 2012
Time: 9pm-2am
Location: Buffalo Billiards,...

This month, we'll be hearing from Janet Ehlers, who wrangles marketing and community for Celestial Seasonings. She'll share some of her challenges and successes in the Celestial Seasonings community. We're thrilled to be hearing from her!

Janet will share her insights and smarts, answer questions...and then we'll transition...

Race coverage will be broadcast on Versus TV Network

Viewing times are as follows:

Pre-Show- 3:30pm-4:00pm (EST)
Live Race- 4:00pm-6:00pm (EST)
Post Show-11:00pm-12:00am (EST)

Note- All times are approximate and subject to change.

The folks from Framesocket (http://www.framesocket.com/) will be in the house to give a talk titled "How to Go it Alone with Video - A Guide to Tackling Web and Mobile Rich Media"

They will be covering where video has been, what game changing technological advances occurred along the way and what teams can do if they want to roll with...

June meetup!

Join us for conversation about community building and community management -- whether you currently work as a community manager or are simply interested in the field!

We're jazzed to have Grace Boyle (@gracekboyle) share her knowledge about blogger outreach. She'll share resources, and then open it up to Q&A.
...

Jive is hosting a big data meetup for anyone interested in the latest tech, best practices, and real-world applications of web-scale infrastructure. Free food & beer provided!

4:00-4:15 Meet and greet
4:15-4:30 Insider workings of Hadoop/Apache Projects by Nigel Daley
4:45-5:00 Flume Use by Lance Riedel, Brent Halsey, Ryan Tyer
5:00-5:15...

A discussion on the mobile web.

Questions? corey@dojo4.com

A special Boulder Startup Week edition of BOCC with all the usual antics from Boulder's tech community.

Questions? Contact @msitarzewski

Intro to mobile dev in Boulder and a chance for people to hook up skills with projects. Startups looking to hire mobile dev talent will be introducing themselves, and providing information about their companies and what are looking for in the resources that they will be hiring.

Co-hosted by dojo4, Backflip Studios, Blipsnips, Occipital, Orbotix,...

A special edition of CMM - just for Boulder Startup Week. Hosted by Cali Harris (@caligater).

RSVP Required.

Up for a challenge? Join @arinewman (Jive Software) for a morning ride up Boulder's famous Flagstaff mountain. Enjoy the fresh air and great views of Boulder. We'll start and finish at Amante Coffee downtown.

There is a great turnaround spot at the Boulder Amphitheater that makes it a nice and short ride, and for those...

Android enthusiasts & developers, and everybody else welcome!