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Produced by 500 Startups, Warm Gun is a 1-day conference on December 2nd in San Francisco for designers & startups to learn about elegant, purposeful, and measurable online design. In 2010, Warm Gun sold out with 520+ attendees and featured speakers like Jeff Veen (Typekit), Luke Wroblewski (LukeW), Jason Putorti (Votizen), Jared Spool (UIE), +...

Come join the Instagram team at PhotoboothSF, http://www.photoboothsf.com, for the Worldwide InstaMeet!

There will be tintype portraits for purchase, drinks & more.

You can also check out future Meetups in SF here: http://www.meetup.com/Instagram/San-Francisco-CA/




Instagram image courtesy of Drew Beck (@drewbeck).

UPDATE: We've had the who, what, when, and why nailed down for a while, and finally have the WHERE (re-)confirmed! We'll see you at Roe Lounge in SoMA for Apps & Apps - the venue offers a happy hour menu which includes cocktails AND appetizers/bar-bites, so we'll return to our 'no-host' format that we usually have for...

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...

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...

Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco is back for another great year of sessions, speakers, and networking opportunities.

Registration is now open! Use discount code websf11fb20 to save 20% on all conference passes or code websf11fbe for a free Expo Hall Only pass.

The Larry Chiang AFTERPARTY to kickoff Stanford Entpreneur Week

Would you like some AFTERPARTY with your order?!

Yes please>

I am wrangling up some refreshments, corral a VC or 9 and take you into the coolest of venues.

I am combining athletics and engineering because it is a deadly combination of awesomeness. Maybe you're not a varsity...

Reverse VC Pitch at Stanford *** ReverseVC Press Features 2011 *** How to Charm a VC Into Mentoring You5 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Getting Mentored by a VC This Week in Small Business By GENE MARKS Larry Chiang, author and chief executive, explains how to charm a venture capitalist into mentoring you....

Every now and then, we try to have a special DevHouse. This one is just that, thanks to The Tech.

The Tech Museum in San Jose is letting us take over their building. We'll be hacking among their colorful exhibits for the creative and curious. Isn't that appropriate? Grab your laptop, your ideas, your friends and join us on Saturday,...

The lovely people of Cosmos FM, the Hellenic public radio of NYC, have given me a bi-monthly show called Hellenic Voices, where I interview interesting Greek-Americans and philhellenes that are making contributions to not only the Greek community, but also to their fields.

For my first show, I am honored to interview Lilia Ziamou, artist...

Fred Durham is the Co-Founder and CEO of CafePress, a highly successful startup that generates in excess of $100M a year in revenue. When it came time to raise their Series B, the CafePress founders took an unconventional approach. They made a compelling case to investors by sharing all of the things that they had learned about their customers. The...

Jude Gomila on Nailing the Pitch Meeting
Jude Gomila is currently co founder of Heyzap (Union Square Ventures and Y Combinator funded in 2009). Heyzap has raised over $4M in financing from some of the best investors in the US. During his final year of University he started Sugar Global, a digital photo frame brand, making sales to UK stores...

No matter if you are running a local incubator, building an angel network or you are in charge of an government agency for SMBs, you primary question is: How do I get my entrepreneurs to succeed?

Incubate 2.0 will bring you the answers.

Over the last decade visionary entrepreneurs have not only created successfully business but applied their...

Jay Jamison on Constructing a Killer Pitch Deck
Jay Jamison is the Co-Founder and President of Moonshoot, an early-stage online gaming company with the mission to spark English language learning in children everywhere. Jay is also a Venture Partner at Blue Run Ventures and a top-rated mentor from the Founder Institute. Prior to starting Moonshoot,...