(((༼•̫͡•༽))) OOOoooOOOOoo! AwWAAAh!
Did I scare you? Full disclosure: I’m not a fan of scary Halloween stuff (give me a cute kitten in a smiling jack-o-lantern over a flesh-eating zombie any day!), but in the spirit of the season, I’m going to try to deliver a Spooktacular issue today!
Let’s talk about local startups that scratch the scary itch…Did you know that this year’s Downtown Sacramento Partnership Calling All Dreamers contest winner is Neo Escape Rooms? Imagine being locked in a room and you can’t get out until you solve the puzzle! I’m sooooo scared!! They aren’t open yet but visit their webpage and sign up to be notified when they are!
Can you avoid the walking dead by making sure they’ve got a scenic place for their eternal rest? Sacramento-based Cemetary360 can help you find a burial plot. Their technology allows users to enter a ground-level 360 view of a cemetery located anywhere, explore existing and available interment sites and connect with cemeteries through a life-like 360-degree immersive experience. (I wonder if it’s a live-stream — we might be able to go ghost hunting from the comfort of our living rooms!)
Get ready to DIE! With El Dorado Hills-based Heirvault you can speak from the grave about how you want your estate and legacy handled! Ok…that’s not their slogan or branding, but it makes this estate-planning tool sound a lot spookier!
And now, back to our regular programming…
This Week’s Best Bets
Tuesday evening StartupSac in partnership with Moss Adams is offering a workshop, What Every Startup Founders Should Know About Their Financials. If you’re an early stage founder, I highly recommend you attend! I’ve got a very special discount for you too — use “tenbucks” for $10 off the $15 admission price! Get tickets
On Thursday, the winners of the 2018 Sacramento Region Innovation Awards will be announced at a celebratory luncheon. Use “startupdigest” to get $25 off the general admission price! Get out and support innovation! Get tickets
If you’re into fashion and/or retail technology, Levi Strauss is sponsoring a Future of Retail Startup Weekend in San Francisco Friday-Sunday. Early bird tickets are just $50 (that includes admission and 7 meals!). This is going to be a truly epic Startup Weekend! Get tickets
Plan Ahead
On Nov 7, InnoGrove in Elk Grove is hosting a free workshop, Investment Essentials for Founders, with attorneys from Witan Law. Get all your questions answered about legal ins and outs of taking on funding! RSVP
Nov 13-20 is Global Entrepreneurship Week! Find out what’s going on in our community on StartupSac’s GEW 2018 Calendar!
We’re building community! The StartupSac Community Facebook Group launched about a month ago and already has over 250 members. Now we need you! Request to join here.
There’s lots of great stuff going on in the tech startup community–check out the details in this week’s Startup Digest. If you’d like to receive the digest in your inbox every Monday morning, sign up for free here. If you’ve organized (or know about) an event we have not included, please submit it here for consideration. And for even more startup information, happenings and resources, browse the StartupSac Website.
