Plan for 2010

This is my first post of 2010 and my first post in a while. It wasn’t until the last few days that I figured out what I’ll be doing the first half of this year. I will be attending events, big and small, but not all out crazy like I did last fall. I plan to attend some major events such as Startup Weekend Seattle and Seattle CodeCamp.

I will be finishing up a large project soon and plan to show off the creator of that software shortly thereafter. I also plan to get back into school, at least part time, working toward an associate degree. Ok, one last thing. I hope to get time soon to write my series on building n-tier applications on the .NET stack.

If you will be attending events in the future in the Seattle area that you think I should attend, just let me know by leaving a comment.

Ryan D. Kyle | Concord Mfg LLC

This Week in Networking

I booked myself for a total of 6 events this week. I’ll walk through them quickly. Monday was August 24th, 2009.

Monday | Eastside Small Business Meetup (Redmond), Bellevue Job Club Meetup (Bellevue)

Tuesday | Seattle Startups Open Coffee (Seattle)

Wednesday | Eastside Startups Open Coffee (Redmond)

Thursday | NWEN House Party (Seattle)

Friday – Sunday | Startup Weekend (BizSpark at Redmond)

Very soon I will be creating a dedicated page to networking events in the greater Seattle area. Look there for reviews of all of these events and more. Expect a post on Tuesday about Startup Weekend.

Enjoy your weekend! I certainly will, programming.

Startup and Networking Events in Seattle

These are all the event websites currently in my IE favorites.

• Seattle Tech Calendar – the most populated online calendar of tech events in Seattle that I know of.
• Startup-Entrepreneurship Events in Seattle – Seattle 2.0’s list.
• nPost event list – nPost’s event list.
• Gary’s Guide – just found this a few seconds ago.
• list by TechFlash – includes STC from above.
• Seattle Tech Startups – Last Wednesday I met Robert and Nathan at STS. Thanks guys! Great event. Monthly event.
• Seattle Startups Open Coffee – I will be there the day this is published (Tuesday).
• Eastside Startups Open Coffee – I will probably be there the day after this is published (Wednesday). If I do go, I will be bringing a guest.
• Seattle Job Social – Heard good things about this networking event. Employers, recruiters, job seekers, etc. I might be there this Thursday.
• Hops & Chops – regular event. Again, heard good things. I will be at one of these soon.
• TechFoam – Eastside version of Hops n Chops. Yet to go.
• Six Hour Startup – Recently heard about it. Yet to go.
• Saturday House – Recently heard about it. Yet to go.
• Startupweekend with MS BizSpark – Design and code a small application in a weekend. $50 entry.

Lots of events, so little time. Also, check out Meetup.com for more local events. I think all of my links are are tech or startup related, but Meetup has great meetings as well. I’m participating in two so far. If you have more events or lists of events, please comment.

By popular demand (about 5 people). Hope to see you at an event.