John Ramey
I'm a tall and awkward INTJ. I miss track and field horribly.

I'm a disruptor entrepreneur at heart. Working on my third business, meeting great new people, and pushing boundaries.

The San Francisco UX Book Club will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, April 28th at 7PM at Parisoma 1436 Howard Street, San Francisco.

The meeting will focus on "Rework" by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson.
Amazon: http://bit.ly/auxpgT

Our moderator will be designer and start-up veteran Al Abut. Please come out whether you...

This is the epic GZ tournament featuring both console and computer games.
The line up for games are:

Street Fighter 4
Fifa 10
League of Legends (computer, this game is free to download, and very easy to run)
Modern Warfare 2
Team Fortress 2 (computer)

Mini Event:

Survival tournament for Left 4 Dead 2, best time wins special prize

Computers and...

#thePARTY @SXSW.
March 16, 8-2 AM
Terrace 59, Speakeasy Rooftop
412 Congress Ave. Austin, TX

theMIX agency proudly presents #thePARTY @SXSW.

We're taking over Terrace59, the rooftop of Speakeasy. If you guys came to last year's party, you know what to expect.

We're bringing some of our absolute favorite artists at the moment to...

Join us in Austin on Monday, March 15th at the Austin Music Hall in for a gdgt party and meetup!

We'll have all kinds of gadgets and demos from our awesome vendors, including:

AMD - http://www.amd.com/
AnyClip - http://anyclip.com/
Aviary - http://aviary.com/
Boxee - http://www.boxee.tv/
Buffalo Technology - http://www.buffalotech.com/...

Only a fraction of business financing comes from Sand Hill Road. Yet entrepreneurs still obsess over traditional big meeting/big money Silicon Valley venture capital. This heated panel debates what types of companies actually benefit from VC and reviews concrete examples of alternatives to traditional venture capital.

Join PBS, NPR, FRONTLINE, ITVS, FUTURESTATES and ReadWriteWeb @KLRU's Legendary Austin City Limits Studio. Live music, Tex-Mex, Margaritas. (Free shuttles at the Hilton). Free to SXSW Interactive and Film badge holders.

**With performances by:**
Nicole Atkins and the Black Sea (http://nicoleatkins.com/)
Band of Skulls...

Naval is going to be hanging out, kissing babies, and pressing the flesh. Come talk about your startup and Venture Hacking. We'll do our best to help.

If you use Plancast, voila: http://plancast.com/a/1vm5

Join us for happy hour drinks and appetizers at Cedar Door and learn what we are working on at Mozilla. Party is limited to the first 250 guests who arrive - please RSVP here!

{RV}IP was born out of a desire to celebrate independent film, music, and technology through the combined forces of karaoke, carpooling, and spontaneous rockage. Ning is the social platform for interests and passions — including karaoke, carpooling, and sponaneous rockage.

Join us at SXSW Interactive for karaoke, mayhem, cocktails,...

The Austin chapter of Girls in Tech will be hosting a happy hour reception the first night of South by Southwest Interactive. Please join us for a drink and conversation with some of the leading female tech minds at SXSWi! Appetizers and drinks will be provided.

We’d like to thank the fine people at Porter Novelli Austin, Unwired Nation, and...

Learn how to do a startup for less money than it cost to buy an economy car, without burning through your cash and failing before you even get started. Is this "lean startup", or is it just old-fashioned thriftiness? Also, tales of scrappy startup companies like PayPal, MySpace, Plaxo and how they made things happen using unconventional...