The LaunchMemphis founding team is pleased to announce our Fall 2008 Season of Entrepreneurship. This Fall we are putting together 4 events to develop our entrepreneurial community. Like every season we hope to organize dynamic, unique, and meaningful experiences for the community, and while all the events are important there are two highlights that fit this mold definitely.
1) Mark your calendar on September 18th, 2008 for your opportunity to interact with Sarah Lacy (http://www.sarahlacy.com/), a tech entrepreneurship reporter for BusinessWeek and Yahoo’s Tech Ticker. She is the recent author of Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0. If you are technologist, entrepreneur, new media player, blogger, or other interested party, please join us for this special party complete with food, drink, and DJ (and some book signing). You’ll meet and share ideas in a fun and open atmosphere and brush elbows with those daring to launch a new venture — plus you can meet Sarah Lacy. While the event is free, RSVP is required for attendance. Send a quick message to TechFuel@launchmemphis.com.
2) Mark your calendar for November 7th and 8th, 2008 for Memphis BarCamp. Yes LaunchMemphis is organizing the “Un-Conference” for the community. For those that haven’t heard of this program, BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. More information will be announced shortly, but, like Startup Weekend, we don’t think you will want to miss this.
In addition to these two events, we’ll host a Startup Weekend Reunion on August 7th, 2008 and we are co-organizing a luncheon with the Leadership Academy. For details on these events and all our events be sure to go to this page on our website.
We hope you enjoyed your summer and invite you to join us for another series of great events to develop our entrepreneurial community.