Lafayettech, Inc. http://lafayettech.org Startup Accelerator and Incubator, Entrepreneurship 24/7 Co-working Center, and Community Technology Events and Conferences in Greater Lafayette, Indiana Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:23:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 API Hack Day http://lafayettech.org/api-hack-day/ http://lafayettech.org/api-hack-day/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:00:50 +0000 Nelu Lazar http://lafayettech.org/?p=1052 Greater Lafayette’s API Hack Day brings together local tech people, to create new mashups using various APIs.

Bring your own set of API tools and collaborate with other developers to create new tech apps, hardware hacks, automated gadgets.

Mix software and/or hardware with existing or new APIs.

We welcome local developers, designers, engineers, technology students and enthusiasts, startup lawyers, entrepreneurs, investors and angels.

Actual registration at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3006754283.

]]> http://lafayettech.org/api-hack-day/feed/ 0 TEDxPurdueU http://lafayettech.org/tedxpurdueu/ http://lafayettech.org/tedxpurdueu/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:00:24 +0000 Nelu Lazar http://lafayettech.org/?p=878 TEDxPurdueU 2012 will showcase the spirit of innovation at Purdue University. Speakers will convey lessons on how to engineer, spark, teach, and lead innovation through stories drawn from personal experience. The conference will stimulate new ideas, inspire participants to pursue creative ventures, and foster a campus culture of innovation of entrepreneurship.

]]> http://lafayettech.org/tedxpurdueu/feed/ 0 SimpleTalk http://lafayettech.org/simpletalk/ http://lafayettech.org/simpletalk/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:41 +0000 Nelu Lazar http://lafayettech.org/?p=1050 120 minutes. 10 minutes per idea. Bring it on.

At Greyhouse Coffee, 7PM.

]]> http://lafayettech.org/simpletalk/feed/ 0 Business Plan Competition – Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship http://lafayettech.org/business-plan-competition-burton-d-morgan-center-for-entrepreneurship/ http://lafayettech.org/business-plan-competition-burton-d-morgan-center-for-entrepreneurship/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:00:39 +0000 Nelu Lazar http://lafayettech.org/?p=819 Contact details:

]]> http://lafayettech.org/business-plan-competition-burton-d-morgan-center-for-entrepreneurship/feed/ 0 Build a Video Game – Come Learn to Program http://lafayettech.org/build-a-video-game-come-learn-to-program/ http://lafayettech.org/build-a-video-game-come-learn-to-program/#comments Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:00:49 +0000 Nelu Lazar http://lafayettech.org/?p=831 Read more on the registration page.

We will write a few animations and  basic games using the javascript programming language. Our code will run in a web browser. At the end of the day, we will post our work to the internet to share with your friends and family. Along the way, you’ll learn some basics of programming, animation, and web technologies. We hope you’ll have fun and that the day will whet your apptetite to the amazing world of creating software!

]]> http://lafayettech.org/build-a-video-game-come-learn-to-program/feed/ 0 Congrats NextRound! http://lafayettech.org/congrats-nextround/ http://lafayettech.org/congrats-nextround/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:30:29 +0000 Nelu Lazar http://lafayettech.org/?p=992 Congratulations to the winners of Greater Lafayette’s Startup Weekend: NEXT ROUND (@ourNextRound).

We’ll meet tonight at the hub to review what happened over the weekend and to make plans for NEXT ROUND to spend the next three months for free at the hub, in a new office where they could grow their new business from.

Congratulations to the other winners: @StartupStack, @JobMensch, @TownTools, @Mikopome. New startups, new jobs, new additions to the local tech eco-system. Thanks to all attendees, speakers, mentors, judges, sponsors, partners, organizers!

Special thanks to Denver Hutt for providing the best support over the weekend, as the official Startup Weekend facilitator.

Check out event’s highlights: https://gimmebar.com/collection/4f35dfc72f0aaad86800005a/greater-lafayette-startup-weekend-2012

Watch what local Mayor Tony Roswarski had to say about Lafayettech HUB on Saturday: http://qik.com/video/48034477

Follow the #GLSW news: https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23glsw%20OR%20startuplaf%20OR%20lafayettech

Thank you all for a great weekend! We’ll follow up with special thanks and news soon.

Read more about the Startup Weekend in Greater Lafayette at http://greaterlafayette.startupweekend.org

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Entrepreneurs from Greater Lafayette area will soon have the chance to build high-tech applications, over a single weekend of intensive 54-hour co-working activity, February 10-12, 2012.

Please read more on the official page at:

greaterlafayette.startupweekend.org

SPEAKERS

MENTORS

JUDGES PANEL


Interested in sponsoring? Contact us!

ORGANIZERS:
Nelu Lazar

Nelu Lazar
Lafayettech, non-profit

 Mikel Berger

Mikel Berger
DelMar Information Technologies

 Jonathan Perl

Jonathan Perl
FoundOPS
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]]> http://lafayettech.org/idea-a-thon-4/feed/ 0 Weekly Pre-Event: Startup Weekend http://lafayettech.org/weekly-pre-event-startup-weekend-5/ http://lafayettech.org/weekly-pre-event-startup-weekend-5/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:30:24 +0000 Nelu Lazar http://lafayettech.org/weekly-pre-event-startup-weekend-5/ Weekly meetups for local entrepreneurs, to learn more about the upcoming “Startup Weekend” event scheduled for February 10-12, 2012 in Greater Lafayette.

Special guest Feb. 6: Xiyang Chen, amazing local software developer, participant at previous editions of the Startup Weekend in Indianapolis. He will share his thorough experience with kicking off neat tech startups.

Weekly chances to win free attendance to the SW event and a book: “How To Take A Company From Concept To Creation In 54 Hours”, by Marc Nager, Clint Nelsen, Franck Nouyrigat, co-directed by StartupWeekend.org. All previous winners have been announced on facebook.com/Lafayettech.

Read more about the Startup Weekend in Greater Lafayette at http://greaterlafayette.startupweekend.org.

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