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Only for Startups: September / October Founders Space Events

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Founders Space and its partners bring some great tech events to the SF Tech and Silicon Valley Areas Hey Nerds! We have got some great events at Founders Space . Use our Nerd Stalker Discount 25OFF at checkout to get your 25% discount (c/o Captain Hoff above). Full disclosure, I am a volunteer mentor at Founders Space. Check out their events below:

The Nerd Stalker Tech Week Update - Bees, Drones & Beer Delivery

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Adolfo and Greg Stalk the Weekly Tech Newscape Streamed live on Aug 29, 2015 Adolfo and Greg pick their tech topics of the Week.

International Drone Conference Coming to Las Vegas

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InterDrone Promises a Wide Range of Activities Including a Film Festival Drones are one of those topics that are capturing the imagination of many services including delivery, Film Making and Real Estate. The InterDrone Conference & Expo hopes to inform everyone in each of those categories and more. The conference will be highlighted by a keynote address by former Editor-in-Chief of Wired and current 3D Robotics Founder and CEO - Chris Anderson . We talk with organizer and BZ Media CEO, Ted Bahr , on the current state of drones and what to expect at their inaugural conference.

Learn Your Elevator Pitch with These Do's and Don'ts

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Secrets to better networking with Nicole Lininger Do you have an elevator pitch? To a certain degree most people do as long as they have figured out their product and business model. A lot of inventors and startup founders struggle with this. Some haven't had the need to do this or some just haven't found a clear way of organizing it all. We talk with Nicole Lininger of InventHelp who helps coach inventors on networking skills and one of the entry points to networking is the elevator pitch. But, crafting and delivering an elevator pitch is not just for inventors but also startup founders, co-founders or, job seekers can benefit from Nicole's interview. Check it out.

The Tech Week with Nerd Stalker - Economic Woes, Apple Car, Diversity and More.

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Adolfo and Greg Stalk the Weekly Tech Newscape Adolfo and Greg talks about their tech picks of the week Check out the weekly gab on tech with your hosts Adolfo Foronda and Greg Viloria.

Indie Game Models the Hipster Ecosystem

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Kickstarter campaign hopes to launch "The Wizards of Trinity Bellwoods" At the last Casual Connect 2015, we were actively stalking Indie game developers. One game developer that caught our nerdy eye was the " The Wizards of Trinity Bellwoods ".  The game takes place in Trinity Bellwoods Park and models a real life ecosystem of hipsters drinking in the park, leaving glass bottles, plastic bottles and aluminum cans and the "recycle" people (You) go and collect them for money to make their lives better. Sound too familiar? It happens everywhere. Chris de Castro, the indie game developer of this game, said it reminds him of his personal story of how his grandparents took care of his family. We talk with Chris de Castro about his game that is live on Kickstarter now. Check it out!

AndyOS Pleases the Desktop Appetite of Gamers

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Andy OS attracts gamers and developers Did you wish your mobile gaming screen was much larger? Andy OS has solved the tough problem of moving a Android environment to your desktop without resolution loss. What Andy OS gives you is a fully functioning Android environment on your PC or Mac. Pretty exciting huh?  500 Mobile Collective , the 500 Startups fund focused on mobile, thinks it is but investing in Andy OS. We talk with Sean Murphy, co-founder and CEO of Andy OS about the product and a recently new feature release which allows keyboard mapping and PS and Xbox joystick integration. Check it out!

Camperoo Hopes to Close the Creativity Divide

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Camperoo goes from education portal to education delivery Startups also pivot to some degree. Camperoo is no exception. The YC Winter '14 graduate, Emmie Chang , is going back to her roots and delivering new age education programs to kids 5 to 12. Emmie left the educational program she built in Texas for the Silicon Valley/SF Tech dream. Camperoo's new age means skills (ie. Creativity) that kids should learn to enter the world in the 21st century. Listen to Emmie to hear what the skills that she feels is not being delivered by the current educational model. 

Startup Blog Insights - What Agile Leaders do to Build Better Teams

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Taffy Williams Talks in Depth on Team Performance This month, we take another journey with Examiner writer, entrepreneur and angel investor - Taffy Williams . We will go in-depth into an article on Examiner.com titled " Agile leaders build team work for better performance " . Taffy gives examples from his personal experience in biotechnology and startup business development . Give it a listen or a view!

Twitpictorial of the Final Week of the 2015 Maker Camp

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A bitter-sweet ending to Week 6 of Maker Camp. Our Nerd Stalker crew took and some time to grab a few photos of some wearables from the Twitterverse of Week #6 and final week of Maker Camp. Good job campers, camps and Maker Media. Explore, Make and Share. Check if you made the slide show. See you next year at Maker Camp!

Highlights from Week #5 of Maker Camp

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Maker Camp Week 5 Takes Flight We are back again for Week 5! Our Nerd Stalker crew took and some time to grab a few photos of some pinball machines, board games and foosball tables from the Twitterverse of Week #5 of Maker Camp. Good job campers, camps and Maker Media. Explore, Make and Share. Get ready for Week #6 and sadly the last week.

Nerd Stalker Tech Week - Drones, Weed and Hacking Skateboards.

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Nerd Stalkers Adolfo & Greg Talk About the Latest in Tech Check out the weekly gab on tech with your hosts Adolfo Foronda and Greg Viloria.

Have Your Weed Delivered by Drone #trees

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Buy cannabis and medical marijuana online Cannabis + drones = amazing?

A Daily News Channel Based on Social Trending of the World

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News Ninja hopes to Deliver Trending World News via Social Trending There are many choices for trending news sources for topical interest. You can visit Huffington Post or you can use news aggregators like Flipboard , SmartNews , Feedly . News Ninja hopes to change that and give you another choice based on an entirely different measurement model - social engagement of a story.  News Ninja , released a few weeks ago, will give you the upward trending news items based on social chatter and not the aggregate likes on a single channel. We talk with Rion Martin , Marketing Director at Infegy, developer of News Ninja on how he sees this "labor of love" fills in the gaps in our news gathering. Check it out.

Notion: Monitor your home with a single sensor, wherever you are.

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You have enough to take care of when it comes to your home and your family. Notion lets you monitor your entire home, even when you aren’t there.

Twitpictorial of Maker Camp Week #4

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Maker Campers do pinball machines, board games and Foosball tables! We are back again for Week 4! Our Nerd Stalker crew took and some time to grab a few photos of some pinball machines, board games and foosball tables from the Twitterverse of Week #4 of Maker Camp. Good job campers, camps and Maker Media. Explore, Make and Share. Get ready for Week #5.

Social App Brings Teddy Bear Hugging to Photo/Video Sharing

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Sweeble App Hopes to Redefine How to Engage Trying to decipher how engaged a person on social media can be has been a debatable holy grail - likes, klout or time on page. What if we said that a fan of yours held onto your picture for an hour? Isn't that a sign of love - like holding your teddy bear. That's what the Sweeble App gives you.  In fact, this app has over 17 hours of "teddy bear hugging." We talk with co-founder and President of Sweeble, Jason Zuccari on his new App and how they want to redefine engagement and likes.