When:

Thursday, November 7, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Where:

Bassmnt (Entrance on E St.)
919 4th Avenue

8 local startups will pitch their startup to an audience of fellow entrepreneurs, investors, tech scene enthusiasts and a panel of startup veterans in a multi-fight, multi-round EXTRAVAGANZA!

When: November 7th, 2013 – 7pm to 10:00pm

Who: 200+ entrepreneurs, startups, and tech scene fans

Where: Underground at the BASSMNT. Enter on E Street, down the ramp.

Undercard

4 “bouts” where 2 founders have 30 seconds each to pitch their startups.
2 bouts where winners have 2 minutes each to pitch their startups.

Main Event
3 round match

First: 30 second pitch
Second: Questions for judges
Third: Rapid fire startup quiz by MC.

The Judges to crown Winner of FFC1!

David Turner, CEO Parallel6
Rodney Rumford, Co-Founder Slim Surveys
Navid Alipour, Investor

Host bar, food included & good times for all.

Food bar includes:
Antipasto, Artisan Crafted Chips And Dips, Ancho Chicken Purse, Pesto Prawns With Roasted Peppers, Southwest Chicken Empanadas

NOTE: This is not a fundraising event. No solicitation of investment allowed.

Startup San Diego’s Tech Week is Here!

We’re thrilled to put on the first ever SD Tech Week for our flourishing tech community and hope you are too.

RSVP: http://sdtechweek.com/

Beginning tomorrow Tuesday July 9th the week will kick off with the San Diego Tech Crawl, where participants will sample not only local craft brew, but also downtown co-working spaces, startups and incubators, including Co-Merge and EvoNexus.

The crawl will end up with a fun talk at Co-Merge with Startup Grind San Diego with host Pat Walsh (StayClassy).

Wednesday July 10 – Wednesday evening Start Up San Diego in conjunction with Hughes Marino and Cooley, LLP, will host the second 20/20 Mentor Mashup.  20 technology executives and successful entrepreneurs will mentor 20 emerging technology companies in round-robin sessions of 25 minutes. Concurrent to the mentoring,

Digital Telepathy will host the popular, fast-paced speaking event Ignite, where presenters share their passions in 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds.

Thursday July 11 – While SDVG hosts VCs at the Padres-Giants baseball game, San Diego Tech Founders will host their 6th Demo night on Thursday, showcasing local startups both new and VC-backed show off their products.  Startups include, AirPay, mTelligence and more. San Diego’s maker community, including 3D printer startup, Sandbox will join for the first time to add hardware to the mix.

SDTechScene is hosting the SD Tech Mingle after party, to be held at the Bristol Hotel. SD Tech Mingle is the party for everyone where you can catch what you missed, solidify new friendships, relax, and engage with our thriving startup community.

Friday July 12 – SDVG’s Venture Summit hosts their “Cool Company” and “Hot Topics” events from 7:30am to 12:00pm.

That evening, Co-Merge will host Startup Weekend’s Startup Boost! Party, open to all, the alumni welcome the newest members of the local startup community with food, drinks, and networking activities.

RSVP for your favorite events here http://sdtechweek.com

Looking for more design or development work? Looking to launch a start up? Looking for co-founders? Looking to meet other like minded people in the tech world? Look no further.

It’s that time of the year again! March Mingle is back for its 9th year and will take place at ScaleMatrix in Kearney Mesa on Wednesday March 13th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

For our March meetup we’re going to forgo our usual 2nd Tuesday of the month meeting and instead get everyone together for the March Mingle event. So please join everyone for an exciting evening event of networking, drinks, food, to check out San Diego’s latest tech startups and discover what other local user groups are up to.

What is this March Mingle event?
Since 2004, March Mingle has brought together technologists from San Diego’s technical user groups for a night of socializing and camaraderie. Thanks to the support of these user groups, San Diego geeks have sold out the venue for the last 3 years. The night is focused on connecting local tech groups and is conducted without sales pitches or demos.

You are invited to come out to talk shop, trade war stories, and munch on finger food while enjoying the evening with San Diego’s finest technologists.

Tickets are $10. Click here to purchase a ticket on Eventbrite: http://marchmingle2013.eventbrite.com
For more event details visit http://marchmingle.com

This is San Diego tech’s largest community event and we couldn’t do this event without your attendance and support. Please share this event on Facebook and Twitter.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Phelan Riessen
SD Tech Scene | March Mingle organizer

Join us at the brand, spanking new EvoNexus downtown incubator for our 3rd San Diego Tech Founders demo night.  Last one rocked and this one will, too!

Thu, 2/23, 6:30 arrival, show starts at 7, ends when it ends.

Startup peeps RSVP here.

 

General Admission RSVP here.

List of demo companies is set!  Feel free to reach out to me if you’d like to demo at a future event.

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Agenda

6:30pm Arrive, socialize, eat & drink

7:00 opening remarks & announcements

7:15 Demos!

8:30 Closing

8:35 Socialize, eat & drink

Food & drink will be provided.

Startup peeps RSVP here.

 

General Admission RSVP here.

There are many startups in San Diego doing exciting stuff. There is also abundant talent in the city with major schools and talented people from around the world. However these two don’t always cross paths. A San Diego startup called SweetLabs inc is joining 9 of the hottest startups in town, to create awareness in the local tech community and to attract the best and brightest people. Here is their first event called ‘Startups Are Better’, on Dec 1st 2011, with the tagline “10 Startups. $100 Million Raised. 100 New Jobs Created”. I spoke with SweetLabs co-founder Chester Ng for this post.

Here is Chester Ng about the other participating startups : “We looked for other local startups who were looking to aggressively scale their teams and in particular, had plans to recruit/hire a lot of product development talent (engineers, designers, product managers) over the next six months. We think it’s critical for the community in San Diego to realize that even in the midst of these rough economic times, there are innovative startups that are creating new opportunities for the best talent in the best city, San Diego. Hence the tagline for the event – 10 Startups. $100 Million Raised. 100 New Jobs Created.”

Besides SweetLabs, the startups are Brightscope, Bump Network, Deal Current, Flud, Lockerz, Mogl, Mojo Pages, Slackers, Stock Twits and Take Lessons. Startup are going to introduce themselves and there will be ample opportunity to communicate with them one-on-one. There will be also be a Fireside chat with two tech veterans. Joe Kraus is a two-time entrepreneur turned VC currently with . Michael Robertson is a San Diego entrepreneur with a great track record of building disruptive startups and taking them to profitability and acquisition.

San Diego needs a stronger startup community similar to the one in San Francisco’s SoMa district or the one in downtown Palo Alto. There also needs to be more awareness about startups among talented people, who might otherwise consider only bigger and more established corporations for opportunities. An event such as ‘Statups are better’ is a great step in this direction.

San Diego Startups are Better!

Join San Diego’s best tech talent and innovative startups looking to grow their teams. Meet representatives from ten of San Diego’s hottest startups, hear a fireside chat about the advantages of startup life from veteran entrepreneurs, and have a drink or bite or two along the way.

To check out startups involved and RSVP, see here.

Speakers:

Join us November 10 at 6:00 at Co-Merge in downtown San Diego, for
San Diego’s first Startup resource matching event.

Here’s what’s going down:

Are you looking for a potential co-founder for your idea or existing startup? Maybe you want to be part of a startup on the ground floor? This is then event you’ve been waiting for!

Join early stage startup founders and people who want to be part of a startup or have an idea for a startup and network and find your potential match.  The type of collaboration might include co-founding, mentoring, advising, bartering, interning, or contracting.

Students, existing startups, entrepreneurs with an idea, and people willing and able to work startups encouraged to come!

To participate as a startup, you must have raised less than $750k.  Everyone is welcome to attend the mixer after the matching.  Food and drink will be served!

Schedule:
6:00 arrive and network
6:30 30 second startup pitches (who are you, what are you looking for?)
7:00 Matching begins
8:30 Music and socializing
10:30 Close up

Please be sure to answer all profile questions when ordering tickets.

To RSVP: http://startupmatchmaker.eventbrite.com/

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If you’re a San Diego tech startup, or looking to JV with a startup or you are a startup enthusiast, SD Tech Launch is for you! Join us for an evening of fun, networking, demo tables, eats, drinks and more at the newly remodeled and exclusive Southwestern Yacht Club in Point Loma from 6:30 to 9:00pm on Wednesday, Nov 2nd, 2011.

Join SD Tech Scene and other startups for an evening of fun, networking and food by RSVP’ing here on EventBrite.

San Diego over the last few years has become a technology hub for both large and small companies whether it be technology giants looking for the latest and greatest talent or local user groups and meetups bringing together developers and business users with common interests.

With all this growth we thought it was time that we highlight the local startups, whether they are a few guys in their garage hacking together a great idea or well funded new companies trying to break through the noise.

So whether you’re working on that next big mobile app or are looking to join the team that’s going to build it feel free to join us Wednesday, November 2nd. If you have a labor of love that’s looking for funding or you are a venture firm looking for someone to invest in come mingle.

We will attempt to give every startup that signs up for the event a chance to give a 30 second elevator pitch to the crowd of incubators and other startup founders explaining what it is they do and why they should get funded. We know there are a lot of great ideas out there and we want you to get a chance to announce yourself to the San Diego tech community so get your ideas ready while keeping it short and precise.

Even if you don’t know how to code or you have an idea worth coding mark your calendars as we get ready to launch new concepts and ideas at SD Tech Launch this fall. RSVP on EventBrite

For more info, sponsor and demo table requests visit: http://sdtechlaunch.com.

Join us for a fun night of local startups demonstrating their products, followed by heavy socialization!

When: Thu, Sept 29,6:30pm

Where: UCSD Campus

Tech Founders members RSVP here.

General Admission RSVP here.

Format: 5 minutes and 5 questions.  Presenters will have 5 minutes to demonstrate their product and answer these 5 questions:

1. What is your primary differentiator (1 sentence!)?

2. What is your funding situation?

3. What is the biggest obstacle you’ve overcome?

4. How many customers do you have and what is your next biggest product adoption challenge?

5. How is San Diego working out for you?

The following companies are confirmed as presenters:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drinks afterward at the Porter’s Pub on campus!  Last time pub owner Stephen surprised us with live music and food.  Great time had by all!

Startup peeps and investors welcome!

Tech Founders members RSVP here.

General Admission RSVP here.