Tom Markiewicz
Entrepreneur, rock climber, startups, marketing, technology

It's a Holiday Startup Party!

It's a Startup Holiday Party! Version 3.0.5 of Boulder Beta is going to rock your stockings off. You might be thinking, "How could Boulder Beta possibly get better?" Just like this: as always, 8 awesome hometown demos sponsors who love supporting the Colorado startup scene door GIFTS - drop a card & enter to win a...

Defrag is the first conference focused solely on the tools and technologies that are leveraging the "social" aspect of software to accelerate the "aha" moment. Defrag is not a version number. Rather it’s a gathering place for the growing community of implementers, users, builders and thinkers that are working on the next wave...

Calling all hackers, developers, code monkeys, and data junkies! In conjunction with Defrag Conference 2011, the API Hackday crew is making a stop in Boulder! This will be our first stop in colorful Colorado, after touring around the country and hacking with awesome people in cities like SF, NYC, Chicago, LA, Portland, Austin, SLC, and beyond! ...

We are excited to be hosting our third Boulder Tech Cocktail mixer event as we look to showcase the local technology scene. Join us for an evening of fun mingling with other technology enthusiasts, investors, bloggers and entrepreneurs as we showcase local technology companies and take a closer look at their latest achievements.  Helping Startups...

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TechStars is going to be on TV!  This past winter, Bloomberg followed TechStars our NYC program and created a documentary highlighting the experience of the TechStars teams.  The show, called TechStars, premiers on September 13th, so we're celebrating BIG by renting out the Boulder Theater and inviting the very community that hatched the...

Single track conference in Boulder, CO

A monthly meetup about how to effectively marketing your startup, we meet in Boulder.

After an event focused around startup marketing as part of Boulder Startup Week it was clear that there is a large local community that is hungry for more information about how to market a startup. This community is by startup marketers for startup marketers in...

The Open House Event on June 2nd will allow the registered attendees and Startups from the Denver/Boulder area a chance to network with the StartupCommunity. There will be drinks and food for the event and if your company would like to be a sponsor of the Open House please email: JonRossi@startupweekend.org

Glue is the only conference devoted solely to solving the web application integration problem-set. People that should attend Glue include the architects, developers, administrators and integrators that have moved past the initial step of seeing the web as a platform, and are facing the real-world challenges of what "stove-piped" web...

As Boulder Startup Week draws to a close, join the crew for a last hurrah at Napkin Labs. Drinks, dares and a ping pong tournament await you. (Yes, there will be a few more events tomorrow.)

Questions? Contact @warrenng

Join The Next Web (a damn good publication, we say) in a 'Fast Pitch' event. You bring your under 3 minute startup pitch, they will film and publish the best ten on their blog.

First come, first serve.

All-abilities climbing session led by Julie Penner. Meet at the Boulder County parking lot at 6th and Canyon - from there it will be a short drive. Coordinate rides, ropes, and gear: email julie.penner [at] gmail or call her 303.883.6737. What to bring: climbing shoes, snacks, water and if you have it harness, rope, carabiners (sport climbing)....

Come by Next Big Sound for some Stats, Draughts and good times. We'll have some delicious things to munch on and plenty of fun people to hang out with. Meet the team, see what we're up to and enjoy breath-taking mountain views from our office at 16th & Pearl. (1601 Pearl Street. Suite 200 - Enter by Foolish Craig's)

Questions?...

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...

You have a killer idea or app. now you need to get the people to come. Facilitated by Suzan Bond, our discussion will feature real-life stories from founders Natty Zola of Everlater and Casey Schorr of SwagLove. We'll focus on the how's of building an audience, creating content, getting the word out there and all the rest of that...

RSVPs Closed: Due to space limitations, we're closing RSVPs. We want to be gracious to our neighbors. Thank you for understanding.

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

Peter McGraw leads a salon style discussion on what startups can learn from academic style experiments at the Bolderado (Mezzanine level).

Questions? Peter.McGraw@colorado.edu

THIS EVENT WAS ALREADY FULL AT 62 PEOPLE. IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY RSVP'd HERE ON PLANCAST, SORRY - WE DON'T HAVE ROOM FOR YOU.

Come enjoy the Flatirons views from the Pivotal Labs and Everlater deck for lunch. 1701 Pearl Street, entrance is on 17th behind Teds Montana Grill.

Please RSVP so we know how much food to buy.

Doors open at 6:30 for food, beer and socializing. At 7:30 Tyler Montgomery will start first with his presentation Sinatra: Unlearning Rails Magic. If you haven’t dabbled with Sinatra yet, you should check this out. It’s a great Ruby framework alternative to Rails to have in your toolbox. Nick Howard will follow up with a talk on Dubious and...

DUE TO LIQUOR LAWS - As a private party, we need a concrete guest list. As of right now, we are not accepting additional RSVPs. If you haven't said you're attending the event by now on Plancast, you won't be able to attend. NO EXCEPTIONS. We hope you understand our need to adhere to liquor laws.

The kickoff party for Boulder...

Come to Trada's elevator to give your best 90-second elevator pitch on your startup to Brad McCarty of The Next Web. Winner gets to give a more in-depth presentation to use on The Next Web. You'll practice your pitch and earn a chance at coverage.

Join Matt Haltom to talk about how to design with deadlines, rapid growth, random coffee additions and vc funding meddling with you .psd's.

More info? matt@lijit.com

Jason Mendelson of Foundry Group presents on how to craft your pitch so that surly venture capital professionals, like him, will listen, help, care and fund.