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Seattle Summer

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…

Seattle Startups

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

 

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