This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysguide.com.

This Sunday I'm co-organizing The Big Apple Smackdown! (the Silicon Alley ping-pong tournament) at SPiN. Duking it out will be some of the city's hottest startup entrepreneurs, execs, investors and bloggers, including: Kevin Ryan (founder/CEO, Gilt Groupe), Seth Godin (author, Tribes), Jared Hecht (cofounder, GroupMe), Brian Schechter (cofounder, HowAboutWe), Malcolm Ong (cofounder, SkillShare), Jordan Crook (writer, TechCrunch), Nick Ganju (cofounder, ZocDoc), Gene Munster (senior analyst, Piper Jaffray), Jordan Cooper (partner, Lerer Ventures), Kathryn Minshew (founder, DailyMuse), David Aronoff (partner, Flybridge Capital), Vin Vacanti (cofounder, Yipit) and many, many more! Featuring DJ Premiere of Gang Starr + Bunny Love. It's going to be an epic night of beats and bounce!! :)

Think your startup has what it takes? Then check out the "Who Would You Fund" TechStartup Challenge 2012, where I'll be one of the judges. It's a contest to find the best startup pitch videos out there. Add yours, and you just might win the opportunity to make a live pitch to the ARC Angel Round Capital Fund.

The good folks at the upcoming Angelhack hackathon (on November 17) are offering twenty free tickets to GarysGuide members. Just use the discount code GG.

It's also DataWeek, and there are a bunch of events as part of it, including Strata, PyData Conf & Hackathon, Data Business Meetup, DataGotham, Startup Showcase, BigDataCamp & more.

Don't miss the Software Engineers Job Fair this Tuesday. Later this week, my friends Jen and Allison are performing another edition of Blogologues (the spooky election special!) with an after-party at KGB. The latest entrant in the tech breakfast series is the Palisades Tech Breakfast, bringing together folks across the Hudson. Next month, IncubateNYC (which is redefining the incubation model) is organizing a bootcamp at Google. And Daniweb is throwing another bash, The Publishers meet Advertisers Cocktail Mixer, for Ad:Tech.

And now lets see whats going down in the Alley this week...

Ignite NYC 15 - Truth is a Moving Target: Oddities Anomalies and Wonders with Data
With talks by Hilary Mason ("In Search of an Optimal... Cheeseburger"), Max Shron ("How to Kill Your Grandmother with Statistics"), Erik Norlander ("Game Show Theory"), Andres Glusman ("The Truth Is Out There") and more.
Monday (Oct. 22), 6:30 p.m. @ Sheraton NY Metropolitan Ballroom, 811 7th Avenue

NYC Gaming October: Demo Night
Demos by Bruno Kruse (Enter Thy Name), Mike Christatos (Worm Run), Matt Parker (Recurse), Patrick Lynch (Escape Run), Jesse Freeman (Super Resident Raver), Christopher Garrett (QatQi) and Brian Chung (Carried Away).
Monday (Oct. 22), 6:30 p.m. @ Microsoft, 1290 Avenue of the Americas

Girls Who Code Inaugural Gala
Support the young women who are New York City's future entrepreneurs and engineers as they unveil the apps built during the Girls Who Code program.
Monday (Oct. 22), 6:30 p.m. @ New York Stock Exchange, 2 Broad Street

Tow-Knight October Startup Demo Night
Media startups demoing include Branch, Narratively, PolicyMic, Ganxy and Percolate.
Monday (Oct. 22), 6:30 p.m. @ CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, 219 W 40th Street

Wired for Change
Rockstar group of panelists including Sir Tim Berners-Lee (inventor, World Wide Web), Esther Dyson (investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist), Brad Burnham (cofounder, Union Square Ventures), Jon Leibowitz (chairman, FTC), Baratunde Thurston (author, How to Be Black) and others.
Tuesday (Oct. 23), 9 a.m. @ Ford Foundation, 320 E 43rd Street

New York Software Engineers (NYSE) Job Fair
Please bring your resume, working code and applications you've developed. There will be break-out rooms, talks from awesome speakers, and robots on patrol taking pictures!
Tuesday (Oct. 23), 5:30 p.m. @ AlleyNYC, 500 7th Avenue, 17th floor

[DataWeek] NYC Data Business Meetup #9
With Mike Abbott (partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers), Roger Ehrenberg (founder and managing partner, IA Ventures), Ping Li (general partner, Accel Partners) and Matt Ocko (cofounder and partner, Data Collective).
Tuesday (Oct. 23), 6 p.m. @ Bloomberg LP, 731 Lexington Avenue, 7th floor

Best Practices: Building a Successful Startup in NYC
With Wiley Cerilli (founder and CEO, SinglePlatform, acquired by Constant Contact for $100 million) and David Kidder (cofounder, SmartRay Network, acquired by LifeMinders for $36 million).
Tuesday (Oct. 23), 6:30 p.m. @ NYU Stern School of Business, 44 West Fourth Street, Room 2-60

StartOut Demo Day NYC 2012
Demos by Waywire, Artify, D'marie, Dtime, Fanatiks, Getbooked, Routehappy, Tasklite, Unigo, SocialPicks, SideTour, Wantmegetme and Zokos.
Tuesday (Oct 23), 6:30 p.m. @ Tribeca Grand Hotel, 2 6th Ave

FIT Presents: The Finance & Fashion Forum
A conversation on the state of the economy, with Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman.
Tuesday (Oct. 23), 7 p.m. @ FIT - Morris W. and Fannie B. Haft Auditorium, Seventh Avenue at 27th Street

Startup Weekend Presents the Partnership Series
With Faye Iosotaluno (sr. director of biz dev, MTV Networks), Bill Shapiro (editor-at-large, Time Inc) and Shane Rahmani (VP, head of biz dev and strategy, Thrillist).
Tuesday (Oct. 23), 7 p.m. @ General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th floor

The Open Internet and the 2012 Election
A Conversation with Fred Wilson, Clay Shirky, and Susan Crawford.
Thursday (Oct. 25), 6 p.m. @ NYU Stern School of Business, 44 West 4th Street

Enterprise Tech Meetup: Making and Retaining Key Hires
Panelists include David Teten (Partner, ff Venture Capital), Sean Maclsaac (CTO, Yext) and Debbie Madden (Senior VP, Cyrus Innovation).
Thursday (Oct. 25), 7 p.m. @ Microsoft, 1290 Avenue of the Americas

The Fourth Annual HallowMEME Costume Party
Drinks, goodies, and other surprises provided by Tumblr and Giant Media.
Thursday (Oct. 25), 8:30 p.m. @ The Bell House, 149 7th Street

More events on the horizon...
All Things D: Dive Into Mobile on Oct 29 @ The Ritz-Carlton Battery Park
App Development for iPhone & iPad on Oct 29 @ 3rd Ward
#Startupfix at Culturefix on Oct 30 @ Culturefix
The {c}0dEd Costume Carousal! on Oct 31 @ Alley NYC
NYC FinTech Startup Weekend on Nov 02 @ Alley NYC
Ad:Tech New York on Nov 07 @ Javits Convention Center
Daniweb Presents: Publishers meet Advertisers Cocktail Mixer on Nov 07 @ Highland Park
Ingenuity 2012 on Nov 08 @ New World Stages
CapitalOnStage New York on Nov 09 @ Goodwin Procter at NY Times
Funding The Best In Global Innovation on Nov 13 @ SNR Denton
AngelHack Fall 2012 New York City on Nov 17 @ The AlleyNYC

Until next week. Stay thirsty social, my friends! ;)

This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of Gary's Guide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysguide.com.

The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is looking for the most creative, innovative and amazing infographics to illuminate the fact that New York City is the best city in the world for business. Enter the NYC Best for Business Infographic Design Competition to win cash prizes, get a poster size print of your work signed by Mayor Bloomberg, have your work viewed by tens of thousands of people, and earn bragging rights as the City's top infographic designer. Infographics must incorporate the dataset provided by NYCEDC. Submission are due September 21.

And now let's see what's going down in the Alley this week...

Designing News You Can Use (for iPad)
D.W. Pine (Time), Dirk Barnett (Newsweek Daily Beast) and Josh Klenert (Huffington Post) share their strategies for designing news for multiple platforms. Moderated by Joe Zeff (designer of The Final Hours of Portal 2, Solar System for iPad and The Elements for iPad).
Monday (Sept. 10), 6:30 p.m. @ Huffington Post , 770 Broadway, 6th Floor

A NYC Gaming Conversation: Music + Games
With Bill Wilson (VP digital strategy & business development, NARM), Sinjin Bain (VP business development, EA), Cheryl Gehbauer (head of licensing, Harmonix Games), Dave Pettigrew (SVP of music licensing, Warner Chappell Music) and Amanda Santana (director of music licensing & brand partnerships, Warner Brothers Records). Moderated by Andie Simon (former SVP interactive media, Warner Music Group).
Monday (Sept. 10), 7 p.m. @ William and Anita Newman Conference Center, Baruch College, 151 E 25th Street, Room 750

September Enterprise Technology Meetup (ft Enterprise VC Panel)
Panelists include David Aronoff (general partner, Flybridge Capital Partners), Matt Turck (managing director, Bloomberg Ventures), Jeanne M. Sullivan (general partner, StarVest Partners), Raju Rishi (venture partner, Sigma Partners) and Mark Birch (angel investor). Demos by Digital Reasoning and Smartling.
Tuesday (Sept. 11), 6 p.m. @ Cooley, 1114 Avenue of the Americas

Digital Money Unconference-- From NYPAY and Consult Hyperion
Panelists include Brett King (author, Bank 2.0, and cofounder, Movenbank), Dave Birch (director, Consult Hyperion; chair of London's annual Digital Money Forum), James Anderson (SVP mobile, MasterCard), Steve Mott (BetterBuyDesign), Duncan Goldie-Scot (Board Member, Microfinance Club NY), Alberto Jimenez, (director global mobile solutions, Citi), Marc Hochstein (executive editor, American Banker) and Deborah Baxley (principal, Capgemini).
Tuesday (Sept. 11), 10 a.m. @ Google , 111 8th Ave

Silicon Valleys Power Broker in NYC, 1 Night Only
Twitter, Dropbox, Facebook, Path, Pinterest and Square all have one thing in common.... they're represented by the myth, the legend, THE power broker of Silicon Valley - Ted Wang.
Tuesday (Sept. 11), 6:30 p.m. @ The Alley, 500 7th Avenue

September 2012 NY Tech Meetup
You know the drill by now. 5-min rapid-fire demos. A bunch of amazing new startups. Now hopefully you've managed to snag one of those elusive tickets!
Tuesday (Sept. 11), 7 p.m. @ NYU Skirball Center For The Performing Arts, 566 Laguardia Place

Ignite NYC 14: Fails, Facepalms, and Spinouts: Stories from the Other Side of Failure
Including such talks as College Dropouts: Kanye West, Steve Jobs & Me, Who's Afraid of Salt, Failure Club and Nobody Knows I'm a Superstar.
Wednesday (Sept. 12), 6:30 p.m. @ Tishman Auditorium, 66 W 12th Street

BigScreen LittleScreen September Classic
On the agenda are On My Block Films (Mary Crosse), Glove and Boots (Vincent Bova and Damien Eckhardt-Jacobi), Lego Monster Fighters (Steve Lettieri), Tracy Morgan in 140 Characters (Matt Semel) and Brokelandia (Eric Silver).
Wednesday (Sept. 12), 6:30 p.m. @ Ogilvy & Mather Advertising, 636 11th Avenue

Enterprise Insights: Working with Big Brands
With Alex Horovitz (Partner & COO, AppOrchard), Art Chang (Founder & CEO, AppOrchard), Shawn Cheng (Digital Strategist, BBDO), Tad Martin (Co-founder & CEO, Collective[i]) and Amit Avner (Co-founder & CEO, Taykey).
Thursday (Sep 13), 6 p.m. @ Microsoft, 1290 Avenue of the Americas

Investor Feedback Forum
Investor Panelists include Somak Chattopadhyay (partner, Tribeca Venture Partners), Owen Davis (managing director, NYC Seed) and Danny Schultz (cofounder & managing director, DFJ Gotham Ventures). Startup pitches by Dimitris Alexiou (Cargofy), Aubrey Levy (Mobcaster), Michael Weinberg (Wizpert), Satjot Sawhney (TapFame), Ned Gannon (eBrevia), Yori Gabay (InstallFree), Saul Hansell (Sii.TV), Jason Keck (Stereotypes) and Rohit Sood (InAJiffy).
Thursday (Sept. 13), 6:30 p.m. @ Columbia University - Schapiro Center, 530 W 120th Street

A Conversation With Columbia University's first Chief Digital Officer, Sree Sreenivasan
Thursday (Sep 13), 6:30 p.m. @ NewsCred, 27 West 24th Street

More events on the horizon...

From Wall Street to Silicon Alley on Sep 19 @ General Assembly
Design for Manufacturing Summit on Sep 20 @ Dumbo Spot
Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator Demo Day on Sep 21 @ Venue
Startup Weekend NYC on Sep 21 @ AlleyNYC
Mashable Social Good Summit on Sep 22 @ 92nd Street Y
Entrepreneurs Roundtable 51 on Sep 27 @ NYU Stern Room 2-60
Daniweb Presents: Advertising, Marketing and Media Mayhem! on Oct 02 @ Slate Lounge
FOCUS100 Symposium and Pitch Bootcamp on Oct 05 @ Ogilvy & Mather
NYTECH Presents: Author Series with Andrew Blum on Oct 11 @ Citrin Cooperman
Talk NYC Presents: 2nd Annual Tech Madison Avenue Conference on Oct 17 @ Crosby Street Hotel

Until next week. Stay thirsty social, my friends! ;)

This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (a.k.a. "The Guy with the Red Tie"), founder of GarysGuide, mentor at ER Accelerator and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysguide.com.

Spoiler Alert!
Walter Isaacson's long-awaited bio about Steve Jobs comes out today. But if I know u folks well, y'all just want a quick 'n dirty review to be able to hold ur own in any water cooler conversation this week, no? So here goes ... (deep breath) ... "Jobs wanted to wage thermonuclear war on Android, was obsessed with Autobiography Of A Yogi (read it every year, only book on his iPad), almost licensed Mac OS to Compaq (but had second thoughts about giving away the 'crown jewels'), was deeply influenced by Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma, wanted to revolutionize the textbook industry next, thought he had finally cracked what an Apple television would be like, was 50-50 on whether God exists and hated on-off power switches." Phewwww. There u have it. You're welcome.

The 'Gary' Halloween Costume
So yeah, Halloween is right around the corner and u know what means ... a whole buncha tech+Halloween flavored shindigs all over town. Now I know u folks are busy figuring out ur perfect outfit--maybe dressing up as ur favorite startup founder or VC or as a Tech Bubble or a Signed Termsheet or ur favorite Social Networking App or a Fail Whale or an Angry Bird or a Siri-enabled iPhone or whatever. But here's the dealio ... I better not catch u dressed up in a black suit, white shirt & red tie with a giant 'fro and 70s style mutton chop sideburns, 'k? Oh, who am I kidding? No one is pimping for the 'Gary' Halloween costume to take off this year more than me! ;)

Deals & Discounts
As always, a bunch of tasty deals and discounts for my peeps including classes at GA, the Raise Cache fashion extravaganza, Silicon Valley Human Rights conf, Dave McClure's Warm Gun conf and more.

And now, lets journey into the heart of the Silicon Alley beast to see whats creakin' this week...

The Startup Lifecycle: Your Company, from Idea to Maturity
Taught by Fred Destin, a VC in NYC.
Monday, 8 p.m. @ General Assembly, 902 Broadway 4th Floor

The World Technology Summit & Awards 2011
The event where u get to hang out with cool folks doing innovative work. Speakers include Ray Kurzweil (Singularity Summit), Kati London (Zynga), Steven Howe (Center for Space Nuclear Research), Poppy Harlow (CNN Money), Jeff Kluger (Time) and more.
Tuesday, 7 a.m. @ Time & Life Building, 1271 Avenue of the Americas

GA Digital Buffet: Data and APIs
If you live, breathe and dream in the wonderful world of APIs then you're guaranteed to like this one. With Doug Rushkoff, Matthew LeMay, Chris Castiglione, Rob Spectre and Akshay Patil. Yeah, that Doug Rushkoff.
Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. @ General Assembly, 902 Broadway 4th Floor

ERA Halloween Party at Webster Hall!
So you mean we can network with other cool startup entrepreneurs AND meet potential investors AND get to dress up in our fave Halloween costumes? Now thats just crazzzy talk.
Wednesday, 6 p.m. @ Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street

Digital Media MBA October Happy Hour
Learn about a bunch of cool projects people are working on, including improving efficiency of taxi dispatch systems at NYC airports, creating a film & new media incubator, helping muni agencies better leverage social media, growing the reach of NYC Life (Channel 25) and much more.
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. @ Solas, 232 East 9th Street

Location-Based Apps Demo Day Meetup
Location-based apps are hot. Demo days are hot. Here's what u get when u bring all that hotness in one place. Presenting will be Yog, Getgame, Matchbook, Jauntlet, Citymaps and others.
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. @ Aol Ventures, 770 Broadway

PGA New Media Council: Smart TV - Producing For Pixels
If u are the type who starts hyperentilating everytime someone blogs, tweets or whispers about the fictional (so far) but oh-so-desirable Apple Television, then u have bigger problems this event may be right up ur alley. In the hot seat talking about Smart TVs will be Rachelle Zoffer (Interactive TV at Verizon), Felicia Wong (Showtime), Eva Bask-Karlsson (Samsung Electronics), Vamsi Sistla (Telvetto) and Anne-Marie Roussel (Sharp Labs). Moderated by Chris Pfaff.
Wednesday, 7 p.m. @ Theresa Lang Auditorium The New School, 55 West 13th Street

Be One of the Cool Kids: An Introduction to Ruby on Rails
Wait, whaa...? I thought the cool kids preferred to code in Fortran, no?
Wednesday, 7 p.m. @ Skillshare HQ, 407 Broome Street

BKTK - Tech, Design, Social Media and more in Brooklyn
Wherein you learn how to deal with situations where "your collaborator has turned into a dictator."
Wednesday, 7 p.m. @ Bitmap Creative Labs, 300 Graham Avenue, Brooklyn

Spotify NYC Developer Meetup
Spotify fanboy? Then, u my friend, cannot miss this event. Hang out with Spotify's community manager Andrew Mager who'll demo their platform, engineer Ricardo Santos who'll show off their backend and recruiter Howard Smith who'll tell u how to get a job there. And yep, there'll be free food and booze. But what I really wanna know is how to prevent my guilty pleasure songs & playlists from accidentally popping up in my facebook newsfeed. About time we got that fixed.
Wednesday, 7 p.m. @ Spotify NYC, 76 9th Avenue, 11th Floor

TEDxSiliconAlley
Chris Grayson had a dream. To bring a lil' bit of the magic of TED to our backyard one day. And so he has. Introducing the inaugural edition of TEDxSiliconAlley with an all-star speaker lineup including Scott Heiferman (Meetup), Max Haot (Livestream), Alexandra W. Wilson (Gilt Groupe), Avi Muchnick (Aviary), Siobhan Quinn (Foursquare), Elena Silenok (Clothia), Anna Akbari (NYU), Jack Mason (IBM), Tor Myhren (Grey), Alexander Rea (Skinny), Nicole Tricoukes (Motorola), Faris Yakob (MDC Partners), Rana Sobhany (iPad DJ) and more. [It's sold out, despite being $100. --ed.]
Thursday, 1:30 p.m. @ Grey Advertising, 200 Fifth Avenue

New York Mobile App Developer (MAD) Meetup
Its a mad, mad, mad world ... of apps.
Thursday, 6:30 p.m. @ Magnani Caruso Dutton, 138 West 25th Street

Ignite: Lean Startup at Pivotal Labs
Since y'all have been such nice folks, Ignite organizer Tikva Morowati has decided that this month we're getting a 2nd (BONUS!) Ignite event in partnership with the Lean Startup folks. How do u like 'em apples! :) Presenting will be Alex Weinberg (SnappSchool), Brandon Root (Friendzy), Brian Sowards (GiftSquid), Deirdre Lord (Megawatt Hour), Giff Constable (Lean Startup Meetup), Jacob Brody (MESA), Josh Seiden (LUXr NYC), Kareem Kouddous (CrowdTap), Katia Beauchamp (Birchbox), Lee Hoffman (Veri), Michele Tepper (EnergyHub), Noah Kagan (AppSumo), Rachael Chong (Catchafire) and more.
Thursday, 6:30 p.m. @ Pivotal Labs, 841 Broadway

Digital DUMBO: The Haberdashery Sponsored by Bing
Yes, yes, Digital Dumbo is awesome. But u know whats even more awesome? When they invite The Bumbys (That would be Gill and Jill Bumby. No, those are not their real names) to give u a "fair and honest appraisal of your appearance." Intrigued? I know I am.
Thursday, 6:30 p.m. @ Dumbo Loft, 155 Water Street

App Store Revenue Optimization
Want to take down Angry Birds and make a bajillion dollars in the process? Well of course u do! So go get the inside scoop from Andrew Cohen of Brainscape and get crackin' on that killer app of urs.
Thursday, 8 p.m. @ General Assembly, 902 Broadway 4th Floor

Techdrinkup Tech Takeover of Halloween (School Girls & Nerds) Costume Party
More tech + halloween craziness. Got a hawt costume to show off? You might just snag urself a free bottle of Patron XO or Ultimate Vodka. Sounds like a boozy party, all right.
Friday, 9 p.m. @ G 50 Lounge, 208 East 50th Street

More on the horizon...
Social Media World Forum North America on Nov 1 @ Javits Center
November NY Tech Meetup on Nov 2 @ 92 Street NY
GA + GLabs present: Ben Lerer, Co-Founder & CEO of Thrillist on Nov 2 @ General Assembly
Mashable Media Summit on Nov 4 @ The Times Center
CNet Gotham Live on Nov 9 @ Openhouse Gallery
Raise Cache: A Celebration of NY Tech and A Benefit for hackNY on Nov 17 @ State Armory

Until next week. Stay thirsty social, my friends!

This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka "The Guy with the Red Tie"), founder of GarysGuide, mentor at ER Accelerator and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysguide.com.

End of an Era
So much has been written about Steve Jobs since he sadly passed away last week and so much more will be written over the days, weeks, months and years to come. Visionary. Genius. Perfectionist. Disruptor. The Crazy One. He's mentioned in the same breath as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Walt Disney. Like so many of u, I loved his products, listened to his 'stevenotes', stood in line for (ok, pre-ordered) the latest Apple gadget and in general was mesmerized by the reality-distortion field. Heck, even my red tie owes a debt of inspirational gratitude to the infamous black mock turtleneck.

But to all of us startup folks, he was something more--an entrepreneurial role model who inspired 'n taught us countless lessons that we took to heart as we went about building our startups. Real CEOs ship. Marketing is important. Think long term. Think different. Don't compromise. 'A' players always hire 'A' players. Design matters. Pay attention to tiny details. But most importantly, don’t waste time living someone else’s life and always focus on building something "Insanely Great." Cuz as Steve would say: "We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?”

Amit Gupta
Before there were all these amazing coworking and incubator spaces all over town, there was Jelly. It was founded by Amit Gupta, undoubtedly one of the nicest and most amazing people you'll ever know and a big part of the NY tech community. Amit was recently diagnosed with leukemia and urgently needs to find someone who can donate bone marrow to help him in his fight. So help spread the word.

You want deals? I'll give u deals!
Move over spa treatments, pole dancing classes and teeth whitening clinics. Here are 4 deals that you'll actually find useful. BOOM!

Ok now, lets see what is going down this week in the amazing, amazing world of Nu Yawk Tek...

Ignite NYC 13 @ Web 2.0 Expo
There are presentations. And then there are "Ignite" presentations"--totally crazy-ass and highly entertaining (or host Tikva Morowati will give u ur money back. ;) Alexis Ohanian (Make the World Suck Less), Amy E. Herman (How Picasso Helps to Solve a Murder Case), Caroline Drucker (How To Get More Women in Tech In Under A Minute), Corvida Raven (How To Unstale Your Cheerios), David Phillips (Los Angeles Survival Kit), Emma Persky (Karaoke Faces), Lucianne Walkowicz (Explosions in the Sky), Samhita Mukhopadhyay (Outdated: 5 Reasons Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life), Tereza Nemessanyi (I Digitized My Mom), Suraj Patel (The Social Media Echo Chamber) and more.
Monday, 6:30 p.m. @ Sheraton NY Metropolitan Ballroom, 811 7th Avenue 2nd Floor

Eric Ries speaks at NYU (Columbus Day)
You've read the stories. You've been practicing the moves. Now its time to come face to face with the myth and the legend himself. Thats right. Lean Startup Jedi Master, Eric Ries, is in town to help infuse some much needed lean goodness into ur bloated startup. Excited, we are.
Monday, 6:30 p.m. @ Paulson Auditorium, 40 W 4th Street

CTO School Session 1: Being the Tech Leader
Congratulations! You're now the CTO of a spanking hot new startup. Oh-kaaay, so now what? Relax, don't panic. I got u covered. Thats why u need to go to this event and learn the ropes from Ideeli CTO, Mark Uhrmacher.
Monday, 6:30 p.m. @ Skylabs, 1 State Street Plaza 29th Floor

Mediabistro.com Startups Party
Its drinks. Its startups. Its free. Whats not to like?!
Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. @ Chelsea Manor, 138 West 25th Street

Hacks / Hackers Demo Day 3
Hack, hack, hack. Demo, demo, demo. Rinse 'n repeat. With David Joerg (Data Collective), Erik Hinton (Baroque), Ray Wu (WhatFailed.Us), Michael Bernstein (PenPal News), Nicola Hughes (ScraperWiki) and Chris van der Walt (UN Global Pulse HunchWorks).
Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. @ New Work City, 412 Broadway 2nd Floor

October 2011 NY Tech Meetup
Scoring a ticket to this thing is a little bit like performing in the Cirque du Soleil. You have to jump thru a gazillion hoops but at the end u feel happy and accomplished even if a little light headed and woozy.
Tuesday, 7 p.m. @ NYU Skirball Center for Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place

After-After-Party for NY Tech meetup
So the real question is: where is the after-after-AFTER party, no?
Tuesday, 10:30 p.m. @ Shade, 241 Sullivan St

Talk Forum NYC Presents: Tech Madison Avenue (2.0)
Where Madison Avenue runs into Silicon Valley on the street corner and they have a nice enlightening chat. In the house will be David Tisch (Managing Director, TechStars), Bonin Bough (Global Head of Digital, Pepsico), Marc DeBevoise (GM, CBS Interactive), Mike Wehrs (CEO, Scanbuy), Andrew Olson (COO, Comcast Convergent Products), Stephanie Bauer (Director, Verizon Mobile Advertising), Sonpreet Bhatia (Co-Founder, MyCityWay), Paul Gelb (VP Mobile, Razorfish) and more.
Wednesday, 3 p.m. @ Ney Center, 285 Madison Avenue

Web 2.0 Expo Startup Showcase
30 startup demos. 2 judges. 1 hour. With Joanne (Gotham Gal) Wilson and Mo Koyfman (Spark Capital).
Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. @ Central Park West

Privacy in Mobile and Location
Having nightmares about what facebook is doing right now with all those drunken naked college frat party photos of urs? Well, of course u are (or should be if u're not). To find out more go check out this event with Albert Wenger (Union Square Ventures), Colin O'Malley (Evidon) and Bob Walczak (Bump Equity). Moderated by Marvin Ammori (Stanford Law School).
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. @ Aol Ventures, 770 Broadway, 6th Floor

Learn How to Get your First Million Users
You know the bubble is in full swing when y'all start meeting up in a church to talk about how y'all gonna get ur first million users. Praise the lord!
Wednesday, 7 p.m. @ Metro Baptist Church, 410 W 40th Street

ER Accelerator Happy Hour
Drink and network with other startuppers. Applications now open for ERA January 2012 class.
Thursday, 6 p.m. @ Connolly's NYC, 121 W 45th Street, 3rd Floor

Ultralight Startups: Investor Feedback Forum and Pitch Showdown
Graham Lawlor is back with another awesome edition of Ultralight. Panelists include John Ason (Angel Investor, Kewpie Associates), Paul Sciabica (Exec Director, NY Angels), Brian Cohen (NY Angels) and Jonathan Stillman (Half Moon Ventures, Assembla). Startup Pitches include Yuri Bakumenko (MobilizeToday), Sidhartha Shankar (Teer1), Ilya Zeldin (brandME), Kelsey Recht (InstEvent), Chaz Mee (Brouha), Aaron (Rudenstine CityMaps), Graham Clarke (Dealicio), Charles Holden (OnLock Digital Authentication), Pritesh Damani (Winito) and Alex Kombos (EventNow).
Thursday, 6:30 p.m. @ NYU Stern, 44 W 4th Street

TaskRabbit Celebrating Women-In-Tech Party
Everyone who is anyone in NY Tech is going to be there. What are u waiting for? Go signup pronto! And bring a friend (or three).
Thursday, 7 p.m. @ Gallery Bar, 120 Orchard Street

NYC Gaming October Meetup
Time to get ur game on with awesome demos and awesome peeps.
Thursday, 7 p.m. @ General Assembly, 902 Broadway 4th Floor

How to Build a Mobile App
SKiNNiO CTO, Peter Bell will give u the inside skinny on how to build a mobile app without going crazy, pulling ur hair out and cursing loudly at the guy (or gal) who invented Objective C.
Thursday, 8 p.m. @ General Assembly, 902 Broadway 4th Floor

Singularity Summit
So maybe u believe in the singularity. Or maybe u don't. But u tell me, which other event is out there in this universe where u can rub shoulders with futurists (Ray Kurzweil), brain neuroscientists (Christof Koch), AI researchers (Eliezer Yudkowsky), startup founders (Jaan Tallinn, Skype), investors (Peter Thiel Facebook), MIT polymaths (Alexander Wissner-Gross), cosmologists (Max Tegmark), DARPA challenge winners (Riley Crane) and Jeopardy! champions (Ken Jennings).
Saturday, 9 a.m. @ 92 Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue

More on the horizon...
Pivot Conference on Oct 17 @ Crowne Plaza
Rocking Out in the Empire State Building on Oct 18 @ Empire State Building
Collecting, Interpreting and Leveraging Social Data on Oct 18 @ General Assembly
NetDay New York: Startups in the City on Oct 18 @ Instituto Cervantes
NY Beta::Launch Event on Oct 20 @ Studio 450

Until next week. Stay thirsty social, my friends!

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ROLLING ALONG. "We are excited to announce there has been over 1,000,000 friendships made on Rolling.FM since our launch a little over a month ago!  Our platform has definitely become the music AND social discovery platform," writes cofounder Nhon Ma in an email. Rolling is launching more social features--like "buy a drink," whereby which users will be able to buy old and new friends "drinks," and the enhanced profile browser to "view others' playlist, photos, etc."

I LAUNCHED DIS. Meet Tinyproj, an experiment from the prolific Kyle Bragger. "Hello. Tinyproj connects talented developers, designers, illustrators, and copywriters with folks who need a hand with paid, short-term* projects."

IGNITE IT AGAIN. "Ignite NYC's on 10/10. We will be announcing speakers this week. We have a room of 1,600 to fill, the largest evaaarrr!"

THRILLIST IS SERIOUSLY HIRING. Seriously. Positions include Advertising Product Manager, VP of Business Development, Senior Buyer - Men's Accessories, Marketing Coordinator, Junior Recruiter, PHP Developer(s) and Director of Merchandising.

FOURSQUARE PUSHING PUSH API TODAY. Will they make it now that the heat is on? Stay tuned!

MOMS. CafeMom is now Mom.com, and hiring a PHP developer.

POSICORE PARTIES. Friday, New Work City with the Turntable.fms, three years, celebrate. "One year in our amazing new space. Three years of doing awesome things together. Hundreds of events hosted. Thousands of coworkers served. And we’re just getting started. Join us as we celebrate the past and chart the future. We’re changing the world, and we’re doing it together. Just like we always have. This event is a free event open to all."

And, a Wordpress party is an Automattic party. "Ranaan and Paul from WP.com VIP buying drinks for you in NYC." Tomorrow night. Midtown.

BEST OF THE EMAIL PRESS RELEASE FACTORY: "Call for Entries for the 16^thAnnual Webby Awards is now open! Hailed as the "Internet's highest honor" by the New York Times, The Webbys celebrates the year’s best websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile and apps. The early entry deadline for is October 28, 2011. Nominees will be announced in April 2012, and the hallmark Webby ceremony will be held in Spring 2012."

StartUp Health. "To date, more than 650 entrepreneurs, investors, corporations and organizations have joined the movement and taken The StartUp Health Pledge to support the ecosystem; more than 100 entrepreneurs have applied to participate in the StartUp Health Academy and already more than 50 startups have attended office hours receiving StartUp Health mentorship."

Manilla, "the free personal account management service, unveiled today its first edition of mobile apps for iOS and Android platforms, providing customers with another element of convenience to stay organized. Manilla has also added new accounts including Netflix and popular daily deal sites like Groupon and LivingSocial to provide customers with the option to track entertainment subscriptions and time-sensitive coupons."

New York’s BuyWithMe "appointed Gerry McGoldrick to the position of CMO, only weeks after appointing new CPO Charlie Gray.  A former GSI (a division of eBay) SVP of Marketing, McGoldrick’s focus in the new position will be on marketing initiatives directed to further accelerate the growth of BuyWithMe’s customer base.  Additionally, McGoldrick plans on developing strategies to perfect BuyWithMe’s brand message to partnering merchants, as the only merchant-centric daily deal site.  McGoldrick’s appointment is yet more evidence of BuyWithMe’s continuing momentum in the daily deals industry."

AFTER GROUPON. "Harvard MBA friends Stuart Wall and John Buchanan launched Postabon in Dec. 2009 as a website to tell other New Yorkers where to find the best deals, sample sales and food & drink specials in NYC.  Once Groupon and its many clones had entered, they decided to shift gears and fulfill a need in the industry that was ignored. Enter Signpost."