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Roofcamp 15 – Singapore Startup Roadtrip
When: Feb 10, Friday, 6:00pm – 10:00pm Where: Pasto, El Pueblo Real, Ortigas Center Roofcamp will be visited by a collection of startups, VCs, and incubators from Singapore to scope out the local tech startup scene. We’ll have lightning talks and networking throughout the event by the startups and VCs. The VCs Lim Kuo-Yi Infocomm...
Roofcamp #12 Coming up!
Finally, we’ve managed to have the 12th Roofcamp installment scheduled for Saturday, 6:00 pm, February 19, 2011. RSVP here! We’re returning to Cafe Alfonso which many roofies admit to be one of the best venues ever. Cafe Alfonso is located at the ground floor of the LPL Center, No. 130 Leviste Street, Legaspi Village, Makati...
Barefoot at Roofcamp #9
The 9th edition of ROOFCAMP was again well attended by the growing Web 2.0 community of startups, developers, innovators, and investors. Veteran Roofies and a good number of newcomers graced The Little Green Hub, Barefoot LLCs offices in the heart of Makati, to swap experiences, advice, and dreams of making the Philippines a hotbed of...
Roofcamp #9 at Barefoot LLC’s Digs
Wed, July 28, 6:30 pm We’re being invited by Barefoot LLC to have Roofcamp #9 at their offices on July 28. We of course accepted since they promised to spring for the beers too. The first confirmed speaker will be Matthew Pontoles, co-founder and principal partner at Barefoot. More about Matthew: Matthew is the co-founder...
Brian Quebengco of INOVENT @ Roofcamp #8 [Video]
Brian gave everyone a charming account of his struggles as a struggling Industrial Design entrepreneur, and his current journey with his work in interactive TV that may rival Google’s. Brian’s vision represents a growing passion among philippine startups that dream of bringing filipino branded, top class innovation to the world stage. Brian’s shares with us...
Woot CEO’s letter to employees after Amazon bought them
Thanks to @brit, it made us die laughing too… Date: Weds, 30 June 2010 From: Matt Rutledge (CEO – Woot.com) To: All Woot Employees Subject: Woot and Amazon I know I say this every time I find a picture of an adorable kitten, but please set aside 20 minutes to carefully read this entire email....
Eric Ries at Web 2.0 Expo SF, The Lean Startup [Video]
Eric Ries presented a great talk on the Lean Startup Mentality at the 2010 Web 2.0 Expo held in San Francisco. He shares his experiences and lessons learned from developing and launching a failed web app called IMVU. Two great takeaways from this talk are: Stop wasting peoples’ time by developing or creating based on false...
Roofcamp #6 was a resounding success!
Good call to have Roofcamp #6 at Mag:Net Bonifacio High Street. That location was more conducive to attendance over the Proudcloud HQ located in Libis. Looks like Roofcamp’s got a new home! Thanks to @jcmedina for helping us with the venue. We started later than scheduled which tells us the next one should have a pre-talk...
Roofcamp #6 features Yahoo! Developer Network
Roofcamp kicks off for 2010 at Mag:Net Bonifacio High Street on Thursday, Feb 11, 2010 from 6:00pm to 9:30pm. Our speaker will be Michael F. “Smitty” Smith Jr., Director for the YAHOO! Developer Network SEA who will talk on How to Reach the YAHOO! Audience. The 2nd speaker will be Alan Magtoto, President of Woodpecker Studios who will demo their Live 3D Avatar Technology. Beer...
The Startup Experience at Roofcamp #4
Roofcamp #4 started with a good discussion about the local startup experience with regard to the availability of skilled people, a clueless VC community, and the difficulties of setting up a local startup business. Terence Pua, formerly the country manager of Friendster PH and now the founder and CEO of XACKUP, explained that US based VCs are often...
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