Archive for the ‘This Week in Calgary’ Category
November 30th, 2009
This Week in Calgary (Startups, Tech, iPhone, etc)
I’m off to a place that is sunny. Will update when I’m back 
Best of Web for last week:
- - Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr
- - The confessions of a semi-successful author
- - 50 Most Interesting Articles on Wikipedia
- - Historic documents in computer science and engineering
- - It’s like twitter. Except we charge people to use it
- - PostSecret of the week!
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Have an event? Did you just release/update a product? Looking to hire? Looking to raise startup capital? Email me: mj@robotsandpencils.com for inclusion in next week
Next Startup School is Feb 27/28 – 2010.
November 24th, 2009
This Week in Calgary (Startups, Tech, iPhone, etc)
Industry Events:
- Tuesday, Nov 24 – Check how a local company – Calgary Scientific – is changing the face of medicine. Take 10 mins today and watch them on CNN.
- Tuesday, Nov 24 – BCIT is hosting an iPhone Forum in Vancouver. A few Calgarians will be in attendance (including myself – drop by and say hi).
- Wednesday, Nov 25 – Alberta Council of Technologies is presenting a seminar on Stem Cell Therapies for the public (7pm – start). Register here.
- Friday, Nov 27 – iPhone Dev School 2 takes place in Edmonton – a few seats left for people wanting a jump start into developing for the iPhone.
Financing Events:
- Tuesday, Nov 24 - A few Calgary companies are in Vancouver today for the iPhone Forum hosted by BCIT and the 26th AngelForum. Congrats to Mob4Hire Inc. and iPhoenix Fund for being selected to present.
- Wednesday, Nov 25 - iPhoenix Fund 1 (iPhone Fund) is hosting a luncheon in Vancouver at Noon (Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle). Email: jon.lam@me.com to RSVP.
- Thursday, Nov 26 - Psyko Audio is opening an investment round for accredited investors . Email: James Hildebrandt to find out more. Note: there also hiring a Marketing Psyko! If you have 3 out of the following 5 things, email James: Attitude, Education, Attitude, Experience, Attitude.
Best of Web for last week:
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Have an event? Did you just release/update a product? Looking to hire? Looking to raise startup capital? Email me: mj@robotsandpencils.com for inclusion in next week
Next Startup School is Feb 27/28 – 2010.
November 16th, 2009
This Week in Calgary (Startups, Tech, iPhone, etc)
Industry Events:
- Tuesday, Nov 17 – Basement to Boardroom – Pat Lor – iStockPhoto to Fotolia – $15.00 for non Digital Alberta members. (Pat’s awesome – I’d be there if I was in town!)
Financing Events:
- Monday, Nov 16 – SoMedia Networks is town from Vancouver and are presenting Monday at 5:30pm. Email: phil@skinder.com for an invite.
- Tuesday, Nov 17 - JITR Inc. is presenting at 4:30pm. Email: lorand@jitrinc.com for an invite.
- Thursday, Nov 19 – iPhoenix Fund 1 (iPhone Fund) is hosting an office tour at 3pm. Email: jon.lam@me.com for an invite.
Best of Web for last week:
- - How to use EC2 for high IO operations (best response is from Reddit)
- - Introduction to Funnel Analysis (By MixPanel)
- - What Beautiful HTML Looks like (on the inside)
- - Get new users for $2 each on FB
- - Atlas Beta Program Launched ($20)
- - What designers really do
- - App Store takes a tiny step towards transparency
- - Joe Hewitt quits iPhone Dev
- - A real customer advisory board
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Have an event? Did you just release/update a product? Looking to hire? Looking to raise startup capital? Email me: mj@robotsandpencils.com for inclusion in next week
Next Startup School is Feb 27/28 – 2010.