Seattle Startup Resources, This is the list of organizations that I wish that I had known about when I came out here. Its broken into Frequent events, Infrequent events, Entrepreneur support/educational institutions, Funding sources, Web Resources and Job boards.
Startup Minded Events: where in Seattle where you are likely find technical people, hanging out having fun while working on changing the world. Frequent Events (Every week or month): Eastside Startup Meeting: Every Wednesday morning at 9:00am At Tully's Coffee 8862 161st Ave NE, Redmond, WA Hops and Chops: A weekly meet-up of entrepreneurs and startup junkies who like to get together, drink beer, and talk shop. on Thursday Nights after 7Pm at Linda's Tavern 707 E. Pine St www.hopsandchops.com Open Coffee at Louisa's Coffee on Tuesday mornings: Early stage entrepreneur and investor networking in Seattle. Occurs Every Tuesday Morning at 8:30Am 2379 Eastlake Ave E Seattle, Washington http://asack.typepad.com/a_sack_of_seattle/2007/04/seattle_open_co.html Saturday House: Seattle Saturday House is a weekly gathering of several people who meet and do ... whatever they want! People work on projects, people talk about ideas, people conspire and hatch plans, and people play games with each other. Every Saturday at Giraffe Labs in Pinoeer Square http://www.saturdayhouse.org Seattle Lunch 2.0: Learn about cool local companies and technologies over your lunch hour - Various locations and times http://seattlelunch20.wetpaint.com/?t=anon Seattle Startup Drinks: A simple concept: startup culture in cities around the world gathers around a bar to have a pint and discuss what they are working on, what they need help with and what they can do for each other. Occurs the Last Friday of every month at various locations. http://seattle.startupdrinks.com Seattle Tech Startups (STS): A group of entrepreneurs in the Seattle area who give and seek advice on running technology startups. We meet about once or twice a month. This is targeted at founders of, employees of, or those folks interested in joining local technology companies. Be ready to talk shop, get into technical arcana, and discuss the nitty-gritties of running/working at/launching a tech startup. Occurs first or second week of the month at The Douglas Forum at the Executive Education Center, University of Washington http://www.seattletechstartups.com Six Hour Startup: A group of hackers/designers/entrepreneurs meeting to try and build and lunch a startup in less than six hours. Second Weekend of every month at various locations. http://www.sixhourstartup.com Venture Breakfasts (NWEN): A monthly breakfast with a featured speaker talking about startup related issues. http://www.nwen.org/index.php?option=com_events&Itemid=15&cat=Venture+Breakfast Infrequent Events: (Every few months, it is best to find out about when these events occur from sites like MeetAtThePig http://meetatthepig.com or Seattle 2.0 http://seattle20.sampasite.com, or Gary's Guide http://seattle.garysguide.org) Barcamp: An ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. http://barcamp.org/seattle Ignite Seattle: Ignite Seattle is a geek event that combines on-site geekery, sharing, and innovation (and drinking) http://igniteseattle.com/ Mindcamp: Seattle Mind Camp is an unconference that is held annually in Seattle. http://mindcamp.gearlive.com/ NPost: nPost networking Event for tech startups, Demos and getting to meet members of the local startup community. http://www.npost.com Think Tanks (NWEN): Evening Knowledge Exchanges that are recognized as the go to forums for new ideas. http://www.nwen.org/index.php?option=com_events&Itemid=15&cat=Think+Tanks Workshops (NWEN): Graduate School level workshops on various topics such as VC Financing, Human Resource, Bootstrapping, IP Protection and more. http://www.nwen.org/index.php?option=com_events&Itemid=15&cat=Workshops There are a lot of other events that occur here in Seattle which attract interesting, smart technical people : Bizjam, Startup Weekend, Dorkbot, Powertool drag strip races, Seattle Scrum, Seattle X-Coders, Seattle Ruby Brigade, Python Users group.... Its best to subscribe to a few of the calendars above to find out about those events. Entrepreneur Support/Educational Institutions: Biznik: Is a Seattle based social network for entrepreneurs, they have a wealth of events and information on starting up a company. http://biznik.com/ Score: Small Business Administration, hosts workshops, offers conseling and has a wealth of resources for startup entruperumers. http://www.seattlescore.org Freelance Seattle: good for finding freelancers to help with design/code/branding/localization/etc... http://freelance-seattle.net/ MIT Enterprise Forum: Hosts several different types of events though out the year, Dinner Programs which can be a companies presentation of key issues the company is experiencing or has experienced or an experts panel with a featured topic of interest, Venture Lab workshops which is a lecture series on various topics and Global Broadcasts from Cambridge aimed at different topics. http://www.mitwa.org/ NorthWest Enrepreneur Network (NWEN): Has Venture breakfasts, workshops, pub nights, and hosts the Early Stage Investment Forum yearly. http://www.nwen.org Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA): Offers several events though out the year, becoming a member gets you into their partner program which offers discounts on health/dental/vision insurance, business supplies, classes and more. They have a focus on legislative change though lobbying and government afairs. http://www.washingtontechnology.org Funding Organizations: Alliance of Angels: www.allianceofangels.com ARCH Venture Parners: www.archventure.com Bezos Expeditions: www.bezosexpeditions.com Draper Fisher Jurvetson: www.dfj.com Frazier Healthcare and Technology Ventures: www.frazierco.com Fluke Venture Partners: www.flukeventures.com Founders Co-op: www.founderscoop.com Funding Universe: www.fundinguniverse.com Ignition Partners: www.ignitionpartners.com Keiretsu Forum: www.k4seattle.com Madrona Venture Group: www.madrona.com OVP Venture Partners: www.ovp.com Polaris Ventures: www.polarisventures.com Voyager Capital: www.voyagercapital.com Vulcan: capital.vulcan.com Web Resources: Meetatthepig: A calendar for geeks, makers and other world changers. http://meetatthepig.com Seattle 2.0: Marcelo Calbucci's website with local startup events, and the Seattle Startup List of Seattle Internet startups, includes an extensive list of Seattle Startup Blogs. seattle20.sampasite.com/ Seattle Tech Startups: A fairly high traffic email list of various founders and others involved creating new internet companies. http://seattletechstartups.com/doku.php TechFlash: John Cook and Tod Bishop's new news site on important local technology news. Has a strong focus on startups and Microsoft related information. Is frequently the first website with important local news. http://techflash.com Seattle Startup Job websites: Besides the job sites that everyone knows about like craigslist.org and indeed.com there are several sites that offer a focus on Seattle startups. Npost: One of the stronger job boards, with openings in Seattle and other technology hubs. Has in-depth interviews of many of the startups with job openings in the area. Also they throw frequent networking events which enable you to meet potential employers face to face. www.npost.com Startuply: A job search site with a focus on Startup jobs. http://startuply.com Seattle 2.0: An aggregation of various openings here in the Seattle area from different websites. http://www.seattle20.com/startup-jobs.aspx --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
