Kris Rudeegraap
entrepreneur

The Crunchies Awards celebrate the best tech accomplishments of 2011. Co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat and TechCrunch, we will announce winners from 20 different award categories live on stage at the event. We will have special guest appearances and entertainment too.
The ceremony is to be held on Tuesday January 31, 2011 at 7:30 pm at the Louise M...

Are you building the next Facebook or Google? Startup World is a global competition to find the next Jobs or Zuckerberg. The competition will be held in 36 cities world-wide, the regional winners will fly to Silicon Valley for a grand showdown to battle it out in front of a panel of expert judges to be crowned the world's best startup.

Much...

You give us feedback, we give you beer. It's like a white elephant party, without the stupid chairs.

Node Summit 2012 - San Francisco - January 24th and 25th www.NodeSummit.com - Node Summit is a two-day conference at the Mission Bay Conference center in San Francisco - January 24-25, 2012. Node Summit will bring together business leaders and technology experts to discuss Node.js’ transformative role in the future of computing. The event will...

An Event Apart is an intensely educational two-day learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for.

 *** YOU MUST BE REGISTERED TO ATTEND IN PERSON *** Can't make it? Watch live at 6:00pm - 8:30pm: http://experts.adobeconnect.com/html5nowandnext/ (No need to register to watch online) Come and join us for an evening of code and talk about HTML5 which will focus on what is available now, with great demos of the best HTML5 web sites, some...

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), +...

Celebrating small teams who are having a huge impact on the world, we're having a series of events all day long (the real fun starts at 4 p.m. with a kickoff of our San Francisco speaker series).

Invite needed, but we'll try to accomodate anyone who clicks that they are attending here.

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The nuts at Peanut Labs have been cooking up something tasty for marketers... come have a bite of our cool new online tool at our launch party Wednesday, Nov 30.

The event will be held in the Banking Hall of the Bently Reserve.
(301 Battery Street San Francisco, CA 94111)

For your entertainment, special guests Sister...

We welcome back Facebook Partner Engineer Aryeh Selekman
Aryeh's keynote: Facebook Platform Update for Devs includes:


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UNDER THE RADAR is the Silicon Valley’s most effective innovation showcase and business development conference. Technology buyers from MTV, Tesla Motors, Microsoft, ING, Zynga, Google, Salesforce.com, Rackspace and more attend to meet with the carefully curated startups.

HOW UNDER THE RADAR WORKS: A handful of the industry’s most compelling...

Jeff Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 7:30 PM

Reid Hoffman & Brian Chesky Talk Two Generations of Tech

Reid Hoffman, Partner, Greylock; Executive Chairman and Co-founder, LinkedIn; Previous Executive VP, PayPal
Brian Chesky, Co-founder and CEO, Airbnb
In conversation with Brad Stone, Senior Technology Writer, Bloomberg Businessweek

One of Silicon...

Learn about hot new web technologies and mingle with 200+ fellow entrepreneurs, investors, bloggers, and tech enthusiasts. This meetup fills up quickly, so be sure to RSVP two weeks early each month.
We announce the lineup the day of the meetup, and we always feature four interesting companies.
The first hour of the meetup will be demos (actual...

Last year's Halloween party has entered the annals of Silicon Valley's most notoriously awesome parties ever. But, now we really have a reason to celebrate.

Join WePay as we commemorate our phenomenal growth, team, and thank our entire community for their support the best way we know how- by throwing an even better Halloween costume...

REGISTER HERE: http://baseskickoff2011.eventbrite.com/

TOPIC OF THE DEBATE: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/257531/back-future-peter-thiel-interview

Has innovation stalled? On Tuesday, October 25th at Munger's Brest Hall, kick-off a new year of BASES with a debate featuring Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and investor in Facebook....

Facebook Meetup welcomes back Christian Taylor of <a href="http://www.payvment.com">Payvment</a> who will discuss social commerce on Facebook.
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Can't join us for FailCon? Feel free to come by our afterparty. We're teaming up with the classy Yoshi's Jazz Club to give you tasty eats and cool tunes. Feel free to stick around for the musical act afterward - though you will have to pay for that.

All are welcome, though FailCon Attendees get access to our VIP suite above the...

This is the fourth event in our Designers + Geeks Speaker Series. We feature talks from experts on design, technology, startups, and all manner of geekery.     Eliminating Design Waste Presented by Chris Jones of Hot Studio   How can designers and engineers work together more collaboratively to reduce friction and create better products?...

Happy Hours, just like giftiki, are always better together!

We're opening up giftiki HQ for drinks and some socializing. Want to check out our office and share some beers? You're invited. Most importantly, make sure to bring a friend (or two).

Come help us celebrate the launch of Hipster.com!  Our team is super excited about the product, and we can't wait to share it with you! The Hipster launch party will be a great opportunity for you to both use the product in the wild, and have a great time doing so! Specifically, our party is going to feature: Hourly party bus tours of San...

FREE Webcast: The event is oversubscribed but you can join the live webcast at http://www.svb.com/accelerator-ceo-summit/

Ben Parr is the Editor-at-Large of Mashable, Inc. and has been writing for Mashable since August 2008. He has completed his first sci-fi novel, Desel, and was a graduate of Northwestern University where he earned a B.A in Science in Human Culture, Political Science and Business.

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...