launch DFW
The Dallas - Fort Worth Startup Community

Our expert panel includes:

Michael Stich -- COO at Rockfish International

Mike Orren -- President and Founder of Pegasus News

Wade Allen -- President at Coupon Factory

Mike Merrill -- Director of Marketing at ReachLocal [Moderator]

Mobile Monday is bringing the best of CES directly to you. Nokia – winner of the Best Smartphone of CES with its Lumia 900 – sponsors this month’s event. Come get exclusive hands-on time with Nokia’s newest Window’s Phone devices. Hear plans for the US market and Nokia’s new focus on apps anddevelopers, including seeding thousands of...

Let us ring in the New Year with a DFW UPA social!  The January meeting will be a three-part recipe: Let's plan on socializing.  Swap holiday stories and New Year's resolutions (you may have already broken).  Appetizers will be provided by DFW-UPA.  The latter portion of the evening will consist of officer elections for the coming...

What could you build with the XBox Kinect? Well we want to know!

Connect your Kinect to your PC and build an application using your favorite .NET language.

Kinect for Developers is a 2-day workshop for developers, artists and technicians interested in Kinect hacking or 3D scanning. This hands on workshop will teach you the basics of programming...

Registration Required

Over the last several years numerous folks have asked me about coaching and presentations on leveraging social media to build a personal brand online and transition careers. As I've published more topics and delivered talks I realized I should offer a more hands on workshop.

So give yourself the gift of knowledge this...

Join us this Friday for a Jelly co-working day, as well as our first community practice pitch day!

Companies will be presenting in this informal setting to give their pitch a live practice run. Tech Wildcatters will provide brief feedback for each team. We are expecting to allow 5 teams present, for 5 minutes each, with 5 minutes of Q&A after...

Social Media Club of DallasJanuary 19th, 2012 #smcdallas@smcdallashttp://www.smcdallas.org Managing Content Marketing Book Tour   Let’s face it…content marketing is all the rage. Brands around the world are spending (on average) over 25% of their total marketing budget on content marketing. There have been countless books and resources that...

Registration Required: http://smcdallas28.eventbrite.com

Let’s face it…content marketing is all the rage. Brands around the world are spending (on average) over 25% of their total marketing budget on content marketing.

There have been countless books and resources that have covered all aspects of content marketing… from the why to the what...

If you like <a href="http://ignite.oreilly.com/">Ignite</a>, you'll love the next Digital Dallas.

Join the Gravity Center folks for lunch and learn from local leaders and experts in your startup community.

This week's topic will be on Thought Leadership for Startups: Developing your Company’s “Voice” through Content Marketing.

Our friend, Lance Manning, is a strategy and messaging consultant working with hi-tech startup...

RSVP at http://dallasgaygeeksjan.eventbrite.com/

or

http://www.meetup.com/The-Dallas-Gay-Geeks-Meetup-Group/events/45066202/

Dallas Gay Geeks January Meetup

Bring a friend or two to the meetup who is a Dallas Gay Geek. Let's make more friends and create a discussion group on what we expect for 2012.

December's meetup was a blast and...

Campbell @ Coit
"Designing Gestural Interfaces" by Dan Saffer

Join us for some coding.

Content is King! - or is it?
In reality only the right content is king. As Ann Handley and CC Chapman put it in their book Content Rules;
"Produce great stuff and people will come to you, produce really great stuff and your customers will share and disseminate your message for you"
In this clinic we will learn how to create killer...

PLEASE RSVP VIA MEETUP AS WELL!
http://www.meetup.com/LaunchDFW/Dallas-TX/497522/

LaunchDFW is proud to present the Senico Labs Kegs & Code Party 2011, happening December 9th, 2011 in Deep Ellum.

Come hang out at Senico Labs' sweet office loft, enjoy free food, beer, liquor and kickin' beats supplied by DJ yeahdef on the rooftop....

Real Web with Jeff Whitfield
Join us for a "Year in Review" panel discussion where we'll be talking about the hottest topics that have impacted the web design and development industry.

Stay tuned for information about participants and a survey on potential topics! Got ideas for some topics? Send them to us!

What is Refresh? Design,...

* Ruby Core and Standard Library Lookin - Barret Clark
* Guarding your Projects - Morgan Nelson
* The Best and Worst of 2011 - Everyone!

Ruby Core and Standard Library Lookin

Barrett Clark will be continuing the mini-series where we spend 20 minutes diving into a piece of the Ruby Core or Standard library. This month we’ll look at rake tasks,...

Order tickets via Eventbrite:
http://twfall2011-efbevent.eventbrite.com

Check out Dallas' hottest new startups and hear startup secrets from Brad Hunstable, Co-founder and CEO of Ustream, at our 3rd Pitch Day this December 6th!

Schedule:

12:30 - 1:00 Registration

1:00 - 2:15 Company Presentations

2:15 - 2:30 Break

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The theme for TEDxSMU in 2011 will be disruption – a discussion of events, discoveries and how they impact us personally and as a community.

Bringing together ideas and interesting people from around the world and around the corner, TEDxSMU and TEDxKids @SMU are single-day conferences in Dallas, TX. Now in its third year, TEDxSMU is jointly...

This CodeRetreat is a language agnostic day of focus on coding techniques, practice, and principles in a format that has been picking some momentum over the last year or two.

It will be hosted at the Dallas Thoughtworks offices. Lunch and snacks/sodas will be provided.

Glenn Vanderburg will be serving as the facilitator for this event.

We are...

More than two years ago Alex Muse, Co-Founder of ShopSavvy, decided to start hosting a regular startup-focused happy hour for the North Texas area. More 2,500 local entrepreneurs have joined us for some beer and fellowship.
The newspaper wrote about the event and lots of new companies have been formed from the relationships created at the event...

Any attendees that want to will have 60-90 seconds to present ideas for new startup ventures. We then crowd source the favorites and form teams around those ideas. Teams are between 4-10 people, and consist of about 50% technical people and 50% non-technical. You then spend the entire weekend getting advice from professional mentors, and building a...

Register at http://smcdallas27.eventbrite.com/

Join us for our November monthly meeting with the No Bullshit Social Media tour with Jason Falls. Sponsored by The Boss Group: http://www.thebossgroup.com and la Madeleine Cafe: http://www.lamadeleine.com

About our Speaker

Jason Falls is one of the leading thinkers, strategists and public speakers...