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TechCafe Happy Hour @Appature

May 24, 2012 By Joshua Maher Leave a Comment

We have been following one startup in Seattle more than any other. We partied on their roof four years ago. We heard them speak about fostering culture as they continued to grow the next year. They seemed to practice what they were preaching as they were still happily growing when we stopped back by their offices for a TechCafe Happy Hour kegger the following year.

This year, not to let good traditions die, we’re going to check in on Appature in their new swanky office space on 1st & Union. Chris Hahn (Appatures CTO) will chat a bit about how his team is using technology to change the face of healthcare marketing (If you haven’t heard Appature is owning this space). Of course we’ll have some food, some drinks, and an opportunity to meet some cool people in the Seattle tech community as well.

It will definitely be an engaging event whether you are looking to work with Appature, love TechCafe events, or are just interested in seeing how they have progressed. We look forward to seeing you there!

P.S. Sign ups are on the right —–>

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Congrats GeekWire Award Winners!!

May 4, 2012 By Joshua Maher Leave a Comment

Congrats to the GeekWire Seattle 2.0 Startup award nominees and winners, just being nominated is such an honor and one that every person on company on the lists should be proud of. Some of my favorites were on the list and some of my favorites won the award as well. There were some new categories this year which was great to see Schmoozer of the Year, Geekiest Coffee Shop, and Do-Gooder of the Year. I would have liked to see The Most Influential Startup Failure, but was happy to see GeekWire recognizing the importance in the community of great connectors, places to get caffeinated and work on startups, as well as giving back.

It was great to see so many TechCafe Alumni nominated and accepting awards this year!! The TechCafe Alumni nominated for an award this year included Simplymeasured (Startup of the Year), Glympse (Mobile App of the Year), Symform (Innovation of the Year), Zillow (deal of the year), Daryn Nakhuda (Hire of the Year), Dan Shapiro (Hire of the Year), Ben Huh (CEO of the Year), Keith Smith (CEO of the Year), and Dave Schappell (Do-Gooder of the Year).

I am looking forward to having some of the future nominees and winners added to the TechCafe Alumni list such as Zipline Games, Clipboard, Decide.com, Z2Live (with two awards this year I really need to check out their game), Tableau Software, Opscode, Zulily, Swype/Nuance, BigOven, HasOffers, Microsoft XBOX Kinect, Vioguard, LaserMotive, and ExtraHop. Not to say that there aren’t a lot of other great startups and technology ecosystem companies in the Seattle-Bellevue area that would be great candidates to host and sponsor future TechCafe events – but those GeekWire award nominees and winners needed some special congratulations today.

We should have the invite for the next event (@Appature) up soon… stay tuned!

Filed Under: Seattle Tech News, TechCafe Tagged With: GeekWire, Seattle 2.0 Awards

TechCafe Happy Hour @BlueBoxGroup

February 6, 2012 By Joshua Maher 2 Comments

Finally! The first TechCafe of 2012!

We have been planning this one for some time and can’t wait to see all the great people in the Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond tech community come out for Happy Hour. Last year was an awesome year for TechCafe events – so awesome we took a few months off from getting geeky with the best startups and technologists in the area – rest assured though we are back and planning a few awesome events. If you are interested in sponsoring or hosting one – let us know!

First up is one of our personal favorites. Blue Box Group! We have been watching this team grow for a while now and it has been a lot of fun, we first had an event with them when they moved to Seattle from Tacoma and now that they are growing and expanding (new east coast datacenter and new offices) we couldn’t wait to get into their new space and hear what all the excitement is about. I know they are hiring, I know they will have loads of free food & drinks, and I know that they will have swag…

 

Click Attend the Next Event for date, time, and registion information —>

 

With facts like that it is hard to avoid the obvious assumption that the event will be awesome! Plenty of cool hackers, startupers, founders, and people in the Seattle area tech community will be attending so if you want to get some free food/drinks, do some networking, and learn more about what is driving this awesome growth of a cool local startup – this is the place to be.

 

Co-sponsoring the event will be Colliers International (p.s. co-sponsored events are always better funded)!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See you there!

Filed Under: TechCafe Tagged With: BlueBoxGroup, Happy Hour, Seattle Events, Seattle Lunch 2.0, Startup, Startups, TechCafe

Happy Holidays

December 17, 2011 By Joshua Maher 1 Comment

Happy Holidays from TechCafe!

You may have thought we went away
I know it has been a month or two
Since we brought an event to you

Rest assured our next is in the works
And it will be full of startup quirks
We’ll bring you networking with your peers
No worries – we’re all a bit weird

So dirty shirt, or suit and tie
Drinks and Lunch are free and nigh

Happy Holidays from TechCafe – We are looking forward to seeing you at one of our events in the new year! In the meantime we hope that you stay focused on your products, find time for your family, and close the funding you need. If there is anything we can do to help you – please don’t hesitate to ask!

Sincerely,

The TechCafe Team

Filed Under: Seattle Lunch 2.0, TechCafe Tagged With: Happy Holidays, Seattle Events, Startups, TechCafe

TechCafe @ColoInSeattle

September 28, 2011 By Joshua Maher 1 Comment

After taking the end of the summer off, TechCafe is kicking into gear with a great event being put on by our friends over at WowRack Technologies. They have built an amazing colo down in South Seattle and are opening their doors to all of the Seattle Tech community to come check out their newest digs! There is a new website for the data center at ColoInSeattle (which is under the parent company of WowRack). This event will be taking a different spin as F5 will also be combining alongside Wow to put on a larger than life afternoon for the TechCafe community filled with free food, drinks, schwag, and private tours being held every 10 minutes from the networking lounge and lunch area to the data center for those that want to check it out.  Hang with some of your peers and hear about how WowRack has grown their infrastructure startup here in Seattle and built a top of the line datacenter to facilitate growth of the tech industry to host for some of the likes of Cheezburger, Buddytv, SEOMoz, and others.  You may have met the WowRack team at past TechCafe events (they have sponsored and attended a few in the past), or maybe you are even a customer of theirs. Either way, the attendance should be stellar at the event and stopping in for a drink would be worthwhile!
Join us Friday Oct 28th, we’ll start things off around noon and have the doors open till 3pm.  Come kick start your weekend with all of us!

 

Where: 12201 Tukwila International Blvd. Suite 110 Seattle, WA  98168

Filed Under: TechCafe Tagged With: Coloinseattle, Startups, TechCafe, wowrack

Seattle Summer

June 21, 2011 By Joshua Maher 1 Comment

As usual summer is full of vacations, spending time with family, and it seems it is always a good time around Seattle to hang out at Green Lake, Seward Park, or some other location by the water and learn something new. This summer to show our appreciation to the Seattle tech community for our Fourth year of TechCafe (YES 4 YEARS!)… We are partnering up with Udemy to try and create more Seattle entrepreneurs with successful businesses! We have a deal site of our own that is exclusive for this week only where we have convinced Udemy to offer you an exclusive 70% off of two of their courses.

The 1st, by Zed Shaw (the Yoda of Python), is “Learn Python the Hard Way”. The 2nd, by Bess Ho, is “Learn How to Build an iPhone or iPad App in Four Weeks.” Both courses are amazing because they don’t just teach you the theory behind coding, they actually force you to practice and write real apps. It’s what Zed calls learning “the hard way” and it works.

If you have an idea that you are trying to get off the ground but need some coding chops to start moving it forward – there is something to be said for taking four weeks to learn the skills to make it happen. Learn to Build iPhone and Web Apps in 4 Weeks – 70% off online courses with Udemy

This week only, we’ve convinced Udemy to bundle these courses together and give them away at a 70% discount. Grab both for $150 (retail value $500) at http://ude.my/l5WOuR

Just think – next summer we’ll be out at your new company HQ having a good time like we did last week out at the TechCafe Happy Hour @TeachStreet. We had a good time, met some great people, and of course learned to Bollywood Dance! (Geekwire has the exclusive video)

Next week (6/30 @4:30PM) we will be down in the SODO neighborhood w/3R Technology and a couple of their partners Moose Logic & Bandwidth Advisors co-sponsoring the event. Always a good sign that the catering will be awesome!! Click the “Attend the next event” link on the right hand side of the page to register…

DON’T FORGET: When you get there, make sure to park on the east side of the building facing the railroad tracks. A lot of mapping software puts you in the alley – but the RR track side of the building is where all the parking is along with the entrance to the space.

As always – we have more great events coming and if you want to sponsor or host let us know…

Filed Under: Presentations, TechCafe Tagged With: Coding, Python, Startups, TechCafe, Udemy

Upcoming Events

May 25, 2011 By Joshua Maher 2 Comments

There is a ton of activity happening in the Seattle Startup Community right now – after Mark Suster gave an inspiring speach at the Seattle 2.0 awards. Red is putting together another event Seattle Tech Meetup, Pascal is builing the Technology Launch Center, and of course there is all the standard stuff that continues to happen – TechFoam, Seattle Tech Startups, NWEN, Hops & Chops, Startup Poker 2.0, Seattle Startup Drinks, etc.

Of course here at TechCafe we are rocking and rolling with tons of events this summer. I have been asked a lot lately about what those upcoming events look like so I wanted to lay out some details here. Specific dates, locations, topic, and times will be coming in the invites.

So without further ado, here is the order of the next events over the summer (if you aren’t on the mailing list to get the invites, let us know):

TechCafe Happy Hour @TeachStreet – 6/16 @4:30pm

TechCafe Happy Hour @3R Technologies

TechCafe Happy Hour @Aeon Law

TechCafe Happy Hour @Conceivian

Of course if you miss one, we always try to get the summary (photos, video, writeup) posted here so you can gain access to the insights of the community. Also as always the events are free to attend and full of people from the tech community (devs, test, designers, PMs, etc.), founders, etc. If you are interested in sponsoring or hosting an event either this summer or after the summer is over please let us know. Similarly if you are interested in sponsoring the site, t-shirts, or something else more creative – please let us know!

Filed Under: Seattle Lunch 2.0, TechCafe, Upcoming Events

Naming Your Startup

May 12, 2011 By Joshua Maher 2 Comments

Another great TechCafe Happy Hour yesterday over at TechDwellers. Good crowd and interesting to see the number of companies filling in the space over at TechDwellers. We had Christopher Johnson (The Name Inspector) out to talk about naming your startup. He provides insights into web 2.0 naming, mispellings, domain registration problems, etc.

A great video to watch, he also has his book – Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little – coming out that goes into more depth.

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TechCafe Developer Lunch @Cheezburger

April 26, 2011 By Joshua Maher 1 Comment

Another great TechCafe event over at the Cheezburger Network. The usual networking and interacting with the best and brightest in the Seattle tech community with a dose of Cheezburger goodness! Scott Porad, CTO over at Cheezburger provides some insight into the process they use to onboard new developers into the Cheezburger fold (of course they are hiring if you are interested).

The premise is simple, writing code doesn’t have to include a lot of office politics, in fact writing code and building great software products can be fun – the way it was when you learned it! The solution is relatively straight forward as well… Don’t show them the bathroom until they commit code!!

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Filed Under: Company Profiles, TechCafe

Seattle Startups

April 1, 2011 By Joshua Maher 1 Comment

For the third year running TechCafe is supporting our great friends over at Seattle 2.0!! We won the first year for best startup event, were excluded from the second year, and this year there isn’t even an event category… all is well though we still love the Seattle 2.0 awards. It’s our little Seattle area startup community prom – fit with a few best dressers, some drama, and of course some inspiration for those interested in becoming amazing entrepreneurs! If you haven’t been before, I highly recommend you spend the money to check this one out. Lot’s of entrepreneurs and startup teams to network with and learn from. I just finished my voting for the finalists and somehow Marcelo continues to get the new innovative startups in the list… Remember it’s not a beauty contest – vote for real innovation and talent!!

Speaking of innovation and talent, John Cook from GeekWire came by our TechCafe Happy Hour event last night over at CoCollage‘s offices inside of LaunchSpace and posted a great GeekWire write-up and video of CoCollage. I am continually amazed that the quality of startups around Seattle keeps going up and somehow the quality of reporting John and Todd  put out continues to go up as well.

We are in the midst of getting our next invite together. It seems we’ve done a few events about great startups and building great businesses and haven’t had an event about writing great products!! So we’re going to make sure we keep everyone in the community happy and have the next lunch event focused on coding – if you like to write code and are always wondering what you’ll do with the unknown (potentially crappy) code you’ll inherit going from an uber coder at a big software company to a startup – well this event is focused on you!! We’ve all been there and dealt with the transition, so we will have a CTO who has been through the transition and worked through the obvious problems that scare a lot of corporate coders away from startup life. Keep your eyes out for the invite or send me a note if you want to reserve a spot Josh@techcafe.co

 

Filed Under: Seattle Lunch 2.0, TechCafe, Upcoming Events Tagged With: .Net, CoCollage, GeekWire, PHP, Python, Ruby, Seattle 2.0 Awards, TechCafe
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