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“LivePitch” from FundingUniverse.com

Friday, June 20th @ 2pm
Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
4408 Delridge Way SW (West Seattle)

As we’ve mentioned before, the Seattle startup industry is still booming with at least one new event every week. This Friday afternoon, up-and-coming entrepreneurs will get the opportunity to hone their idea-pitching skills. FundingUniverse.com will be giving about 15 local early stage founders 2 minutes to pitch their idea before a panel of experts (representatives from Atlas Recruiting, nPost.com, ActiveWords and others). They’ll be judged by the panel and also getting feedback from the larger audience. Check out the FundingUniverse.com event page for more details.

Submissions for the competetion itself are already closed, but you can still sign up to attend. If you plan on going, make sure you either RSVP over at the upcoming.org registration page, or send an email directly to Carolynn Duncan: cduncan@fundinguniverse.com. They only have room for 130 people and are already over half full, so make sure you register soon.

Tech Drinks Tonight!

Friday, June 13th @ 4:30pm
Various Venues (Pioneer Square / Downtown / South Lake Union)

As we mentioned last week, this is the weekend for tech events, and tonight the events kick off with a whole bunch of drinking. At 4:30, Josh Maher is organizing a Lunch 2.0 Happy Hour event at the offices of Blue Gecko downtown. From there, at 6pm, Nathan Kaiser and the other nPost.com pub crawlers will be heading out to a couple of bars before Thingamajiggr kicks off at 8pm. You can either show up at the Blue Gecko event, or follow along with the nPost twitter feed to see where folks are. The nPost wiki also has the evening’s rough schedule sketched out, so you can check for updates there as well.