Congratulations to the startups who made the Elite 8 in the Sacramento Kings Capitalize contest! They will shoot it out next Monday in a private pitch-off and then the Final Four will advance to compete for the $10,000 prize! They are: AerialZeus, Aluminum Oxide, AppA11y, GXXD Pay, Japa, Reviver, The Better Meat Co., and The Makers Place! It’s great to see our 1 Million Cups and StartupSac Warm-Up Pitch alumni making it this far!
For those of you who want to experience launching a startup, you won’t want to miss Startup Weekend happening April 12-14 at Granite City Coworking in Historic Folsom! Early bird pricing ends this Friday, March 15! You’ll save $24 if you get your ticket by then! Plus, I can sweeten it with a promo code that will get you another $25 off! Just enter “digest” in the promo code field. The fully discounted tickets will be just $50 and that includes 7 meals, a t-shirt, 54-hours of hands-on entrepreneurship learning, and an experience that can get crossed off your bucket list! Students with a valid Student ID will pay just $35–no code needed. Startup Weekend is for BRAND NEW ideas that you haven’t worked on yet. You don’t need to bring a team — you’ll meet cool people at the event who might become your cofounders! Learn more here or ask me any questions you might have.
This Week’s Best Bets
Fire up your Monday by joining the Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency meetup at McClellan Innovation Center at 6:00 pm tonight! Rumor has it that you can play a cryptocurrency game that will let you “buy” beer from the free bar! More details/RSVP here.
Join me at CoWo Campus Wednesday morning for 1 Million Cups! It’s free to attend plus we’ll have free coffee! Two startup companies will give short presentations, followed by Q&A and feedback from the audience. 1MC is the “front porch” of Sacramento’s startup ecosystem–come find out what it’s all about! RSVP
Plan Ahead
Startup Grind is Tuesday, 3/19 at The Urban Hive and will feature Brandon Robinson, serial entrepreneur, angel investor and cofounder of Slapstick Pub, a mini-golf + bar opening this summer at DOCO, Get your tickets this week and save $5. Save another $5 when you enter “digest” in the promo code field. Get Tickets
The next StartupSac Happy Hour is Tuesday, 3/26 at Hot Italian in Midtown from 5:30-7:30. This is your chance to meet Eric Knopf, cofounder of Webconnex. This is a free event and we’ll even have pizza to share thanks to the generous sponsorship of Evolution Accelerator! RSVP
The School of AI Healthcare Global Hackathon is coming to Sacramento on March 30!. Make the cut and you could move on to the international competition where BIG PRIZE money is up for grabs! It’s free to attend but you need to RSVP in advance Get all the details here.
We’re building community! The StartupSac Community Facebook Group has over 300 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. And for even more startup information, happenings and resources, browse the StartupSac Website.
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