Roofcamp

Roofcamp is an unstructured gathering with a friendly yet intense atmosphere of open information exchange, debate, collaboration, teaching, learning, and discovery.

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Maker Camps! Stephania Druga at TEDxBrighton

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The Ocean Cleanup

"19-year-old Boyan Slat, founder and president of The Ocean Cleanup, claims to “have invented a method to clean up almost half of the great Pacific’s garbage patch in just 10 years, using currents to [his] advantage.”

Find out how you can help here.

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The SendGrid Story

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Foundation 31 // Evan Williams

Evan Williams talks candidly about his experiences building Blogger, Twitter, and his latest project, Medium.

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Foundation 25 // Tony Hsieh

Tony Hsieh about entrepreneurship, fostering corporate culture, and his latest project.

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Accelerator Watch: Mozzilla's WebFWD

WebFWD is Mozilla's three-month business creation program for startups around the world. The program consists of weekly training sessions & exercises, office hours with industry experts, ongoing coaching and guidance from the world's best technologists. Upon graduating, teams can qualify for follow-on funding from Mozilla.

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Would have loved to see ideas like this at SICamp Manila Open House

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These are not advisors. These are not people who are your mentors. They are just friends. Friends, who are pretty much like you. They too have started companies. Friends who are smarter than you. Friends who have failed before. Friends who have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. And friends who have been successful, but have not let success change them.

Thanks to @ngodee for this.

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Roofcamp #16 is a go!

Come to Roofcamp on Thursday, September 27, 2012 to warm up for Startup Weekend Manila. We'll be at CO.LAB Pasig in the Kapitolyo area.

We'll have two speakers for the night starting off with Jay Fajardo introducing Social Innovation Camp.

After a break, we'll follow Jay with SFO startup veteran and UX guru Nam Le talks about the importance of UX in any web startup venture.

You cant miss this one so register at roofcamp16.eventbrite.com

As usual there's no charge and the  beer is marvelously free! 

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See the whole amazing story unfold at http://cainesarcade.com

Thanks @hughmason for pointing us to this.

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Accelerator Watch: ROCKSTART

Rockstart provides seed investment, 6-months of office space, 99 mentors, coaching by entrepreneurs in residence and a 3-week road-trip to Silicon Valley. In the US, startups will meet serial entrepreneurs, pitch to investors and VCs, and co-work at Google campus for several days.

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Dublin vs. Belfast Meetup - TWiST #286 Today on This Week in Startups, three entrepreneurs from Belfast went head-to-head with three from Dublin in another installment of our epic International Meetup Series! Who do you think should have won? Which individual pitch was your favorite?

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Earlier last week, Payrollhero, Proudcloud, and Kickstart came together to organize FOUNDERS DRINKS MANILA in the Philippines. The event saw more than 50 attendees attending and networking with one another at Aracama in the Fort.

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Accelerator Watch: HACKFWD.COM

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Inspiring: startup story comes out of refugee camp

Here's a great article I came across while visiting the website of dutch startup accelerator Rockstart.com. The original article is from The Guardian.

It's a story of a young boy, Mohammed Bashir Sheik, escaped from Somalia and is now one of the residents of a refugee camp in Kenya.

Sheik's strengthens the belief that setting up a startup is driven more by desire and passion than ability and circumstances. Those that complain about the environment not being 'startup friendly' might learn a thing or two from Sheik's inspiring story.

Read the article here