Temperatures aren’t the only thing that’s warming up here in Sacramento. The event scene is also starting to heat up with incubator programs, hackathons, workshops, and other opportunities to develop your idea, get involved in civic tech, or just dive into the Sacramento Startup scene.
Good things happen to those who hustle. ~ Anais Nin
Got a great idea for a startup and ready to take it to the next level? Startup Hustle, a program from Hacker Lab and Sierra College, is still accepting applications, but you better hustle, the deadline is this coming Thursday, Feb 18th. The Startup Hustle is an 8-Week Lean Startup Incubator designed to help you launch a new startup. This will be the second cohort for Startup Hustle and the program has received high praise from its first class.
“Startup Hustle exposed me to a wealth of strategies and tactics to validate some of the core assumptions of my product. It allowed me the opportunity to talk to potential customers and better understand their needs before writing a single line of code. I’m really grateful to Eric and the Hacker Lab team for launching this important program at such a unique time in Sacramento.” ~ Founder, Delivery Unit
The program begins February 24th. If your application is accepted, it will cost you $149 to participate (free to Hacker Lab members and Sierra College students).
STIR it Up: Startup in Residence (STIR)
The City of West Sacramento is recruiting startups to help develop technology-based solutions that address challenges facing the city. Startups can apply now to work on one of 25 civic challenges in Northern California. The winning team for each challenge will be selected to participate in a 16-week “residence period” from April to August 2016 to work with a city department on a prototype for their proposed solution. West Sacramento has identified several opportunities for startups:
Public Works Department – Flood Alerts & Real Time Evacuation Routes
Fire Department – Smart Incident & Field Reporting
Police Department – Virtual “War Room” for Detectives
Be the Solution: Hack4Sac Civic Tech Challenge
If you’re not interested in the Startup Hustle program but want to help develop new solutions that will improve customer service and help residents and businesses access our services in Sacramento County, bring your ideas and/or skills to Sacramento County’s first-ever Hack4Sac event. The six-week project aims to combine people’s ideas with IT specialists and Sacramento County’s Open Data to create a software app or concept that addresses a real-life community need. The challenge invites community advocates, business owners, residents, coders, developers, writers, analysts, graphic designers and innovators. Teams will form from technical and non-technical participants and winning teams will have a chance to win cash prizes for first, second and third place: $5,000; $3,000; and $2,000.
If you’re interested, sign up for the Kick off Meeting: March 1, 6-9 p.m., at 700 H Street, Board Chambers.
Learn more at the Hack4Sac website.
I’ve already signed up for the Hack4Sac Kick off meeting and hope to see you there.
There’s lots of great stuff going on in the tech startup community in the next month–check out the details below. If you’ve organized (or know about) an event we have not included, please submit it here for consideration.
