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.
Saturday, May 31st @ 10am
Columbia City Theater
4916 Rainier Avenue S.
If you hang out at any of the local geek events: Mind Camp, Saturday House, Ignite, Startup Weekend, etc., you can’t help but notice that Seattle is brimming with geeks that have the Next Big WebApp. And with the prevalence of frameworks like Rails and Django, it’s getting easier and eaiser to get those ideas implemented and out into the world. But what about the next step? What happens if you want to turn your idea into a legitimate business – what paperwork do you need to fill out, how do you pitch to investors, etc. These are common and yet complex questions.
Rob Eickmann is putting together the Six Hour Startup Conference that promises to deal with all these issues and more. Speakers include Andy Sack, of Judy’s Book and Founder’s Co-op, Tony Wright from Rescue Time and Carolynn Duncan from FundingUniverse.com. You can also sign up at the event itself for an opportunity to pitch your idea, and get real feedback from the whole community.
The total cost for the event is $99, and if you register before Wednesday (the 21st), you’ll get a free copy of Randy Komisar’s classic business book The Monk and the Riddle.
