Rackspace Startup Program Global Startup Event Guide: January 2013

Happy New Year from the Rackspace Startup Program! January brings us Inauguration Day on January 20^th, recognizing the swearing in to office of Barack Obama in his second term as the 44^th President of the United States. The first Winter Olympics were held this month in 1924. January is named after the Roman god Janus, who was always shown as having two heads – one for looking back to the last year and one looking forward to the new one. And, in the words of Edgar Fawcett, “January is here, with eyes that keenly glow, a frost-mailed warrior striding a shadowy steed of snow.”

Within the startup movement, there are plenty of events happening globally in January 2013. The Rackspace Startup Program is here to keep you up to date with valuable information on events and happenings inside the global startup community. What follows is a partial list of global startup events complied by the contributors of StartupDigest:

Austin
Crowdfunding Texas Forum
New to the Austin Startup Community

Baltimore
TEDx Baltimore

Berlin
The Europas
Startup Live Berlin

Boulder, Colo.
Boulder New Tech Meetup
Entrepreneurs Unplugged: Jeremy Bloom, Co-Founder of Integrate

Brazil
Campus Party Brasil São Paulo

Chicago
Founder Institute Presents: Startup Ideation Bootcamp
Meet the Developers Behind the Obama Campaign

Cologne
Startup Weekend Cologne
Global Game Jam

Copenhagen
Silicon Vikings: Startup Night #5
Likemind

Detroit
Detroit Lean Startup Circle
Detroit New Tech & NextEnergy New Year Event

Gainesville, Fla.
Lunch and Learn
Startup Hour Gainesville

Guadalajara
KaraOkulta
Hackers&Founders

Hamburg
Open Space Stammtisch
Unternehmergespräch

Helsinki
FINHTML5

Houston
Bring more BigData understanding to Houston
Sharktank – 60-second pitches

India
Around the Startup World with Bowei Gai
Android App Expo

Israel
Scaling Fiverr- Shai Wininger
From Scoop to Skype – Pivots

London
Startup New Year
January London Enterprise Tech Meetup

Los Angeles
Lean Startup Machine Los Angeles
Startup Weekend – San Fernando Valley

Manchester
Lean Startup Manchester

Miami
Branding: A Beginner’s Guide and Design Miami Challenge Wrapup
Refresh Miami: Demo Night

Munich
DLD

New York City
Raising Start-Up Capital
Start Up General Counsel Panel

Orlando
Otronicon
Startup Weekend Orlando EDU

Oslo
How to be a coaching Architect? With Roy Osherove

Philadelphia
Game Dev Night
Developer Friday @ Hive 4A

Phoenix
Startup Book Club
Great ReHatching Party at CO+HOOTS

Pittsburgh
Start Smart Equity & Employees: Seminar
Social Innovation Solutions Challenge: Book Signing with Chris Guillebeau

Raleigh/Durham
Design + Business: The Art of Entrepreneurship
SCV Entrepreneurs Series

San Diego
MITEF Lunch and Learn
UX Speakeasy – New Year’s UX Resolutions

Scotland
RookieOven Meetup
Global Strategies for Ambitious Entrepreneurs

Silicon Valley
Startup Exits: Deal-Making In The Cloud
Startup Food Experiment Mixer

Stuttgart
Javascript-Meetup
Social Media Night

Sydney
Growth Hacking for Startups
RubyRobot Wars – An Introduction to Ruby

Taipei
WebConf Taiwan 2013
Startup Weekend Tainan

Tampa, Fla.
Hackathon

Tokyo
KDDI Mugen Labo 4th MEETing

Toronto
Agile Experience Design
GameOn Finance

Vancouver
Tablets, Smartphones, iPads, iPhones: Gadgets for Good?
Lean Launch Pad Workshop 1

Washington DC
DC Tech Meetup #19: Demos & Investor Reverse Pitches
B2B Camp DC

Startups…get involved with the movement and participate in an event in your community. There is no better time than now to build or strengthen your network. Networking with other entrepreneurs allows you to form and maintain a strong circle of contacts that will serve you well for years to come. If you are an entrepreneur with a new idea in cloud computing, an application that makes people’s lives better or the next big thing online, drop the Space Cowboys a note and let us know about it. The Rackspace Startup Program looks forward to hearing all about it!