Rain isn’t the only thing pouring! The calendar of startup-related events is overflowing! It’s normal for this time of year so I hope you clear your schedule from routine events and carve out time to attend the best startup events of the year!
SCORE! StartupSac is the official Sacramento simulcast partner for the San Francisco-based Lean Startup Conference happening Nov. 2-3. We’ll be live streaming all main stage conference sessions at Hacker Lab in midtown. This is THE conference for the lean startup method so I hope you will take advantage of it being your neighborhood! Registration for the simulcast event is FREE but please do sign up.
Another big announcement this week: the Impact Global Venture Summit is debuting at the Golden 1 Center on November 14. If you consider yourself part of Sacramento’s startup ecosystem, you absolutely NEED to be at this event! It’s from 2-7 p.m. and if you get your tickets before Early Bird expires on Oct 21, you’ll pay just $15 to attend.
This Week Best Bet
On Tuesday, Startup Grind is hosting Qasar Younis, the COO of Y Combinator, at The Urban Hive. Appetizers, live music and radically good face-to-face human interaction starts at 6 p.m. followed by a fireside chat with Younis. Don’t miss this one! Save $5 when you use promo code “digest.”
Freebie of the Week
Check out IoT Demo Night at Hacker Lab this evening. It’s free and there will be pizza! Those who created projects during the Intel Summer of IoT program will be doing live demos. The fun starts at 6 p.m. and this is a kid-friendly event. Oh, and did I mention free pizza?
Plan Ahead
Startup Weekend Sacramento just announced three free workshops happening before the main event (Nov 11-13). Whether you are going, not going, or not sure yet, you’ll find value in attending any one (or all) of these free workshops!
–Oct 27 Fun with iOS App development – Basic overview
–Nov 1 Customer Development Workshop
–Nov 7 Pitching Your Idea at Startup Weekend
Global Entrepreneurship Week Sneak Peek
Events are stacking up Nov 11-20 for Global Entrepreneurship Week! Take a peek at what’s lined up so far on StartupSac.com. If you know of other events going on that week, let me know and we’ll add it.
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Looking for Maker and Design Classes? Check out the Hacker Lab’s full calendar of events here. New maker space MakerHQ also offers classes.
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’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, visit the StartupSac Website.
