NOTE: The Scalable CSS Solutions panel has been postponed, which gives us more time to dive deep into the funding/acquisition panel.
In our second meeting of the year we are diving into the business side with a panel discussing how you can get funding for your project or be acquired and then we’ll shift over to a presentation on Object-Oriented CSS and CSS frameworks. Both presentations are lined up to be informative and fun. Hope you can join us!
Event Details
7:00 – 9:00p.m. Tuesday, February 9th
Buffalo Billiards, 6th and Brazos
How to Get Funded or Get Acquired
A Panel with:
If you build apps, you should hopefully expect to get paid for them. If you’d rather focus on building than selling, this panel will help you learn the ins and outs of either getting funded or getting acquired by someone who can worry about the money part. Get perspectives from those who have found funding, funded, or acquired startups to help you wrap your brain around how to make your hard work pay off.
Scalable CSS Solutions
Are you finding it difficult to scale your CSS as you add features to your web application? Do you want to empower more people to be able to construct web pages on your growing content team? I’m going to walk through a way of breaking down the problems most websites and web application run into when needing to scale production, as well as various solutions to add much needed modularization and predictability to your markup and CSS. We’ll take a look at SASS and some of its implementations, OOCSS, rolling your own pre-processing, and other concepts to balance semantics with extensibility.
Tags: acquired, business, css, funding
This week’s Refresh Roundup is a little late because I was in the Houston area over the weekend enjoying time with the family, especially my ridiculously cute niece.
That’s it for this week.
Tags: accessibility, barcamp, business, coworking, design, tips
- Michelle Greer asks, Why Do Tech Geeks Want to Punch Zuckerberg in the Face? “With Beacon still in need of a major overhaul and all eyes on him for an IPO date, it looks like Zuckerberg has his hands full with Facebook.” you can see him at SXSW giving this year’s keynote.
- Ryan Joy likes to find his daily paper on the doorstep in the morning. However, that paradigm fails when it’s the electronic version. Check out this PHP/cron job combo that may just bring back the nostalgia of newspaper delivery.
- Andrew DuPont reports great news. Prototype 1.6 officially supports Opera. With it’s lightning fast javascript engine and DOM level 3 support, Opera is finally getting the full support it deserves… from Prototype, at least.
- Whurley posed the question, Who is the best candidate for the open source community?” to the blogosphere, Twittersphere, and Interwebs. Michelle weighs in here as does Four Kitchens. I think we all cringe at the thought that our leaders may understand the Internet as a series of tubes.
- Kevin Koym, with Bootstrap Austin, talks about building business ecosystems in Austin despite a possible recession. He argues that “Austin’s wired technology community has been organizing into … ‘Enterprise Tribes’ helping entrepreneurs build their businesses, recession or not.”
- Boone Putney is excited by the beta release of Microsoft’s HealthVault. Privacy issues aside, Boone sees it as way to “automate a lot of the processes that are notorious originators of error in the medical industry.”
- …and, of course, probably the biggest thing to come out is this week’s Refresh Austin’s SXSWi Party announcement.
That’s it for this week! If I’ve missed anything, post it in the comments.
Tags: Austin, business, Facebook, javascript, Microsoft, party, PHP, SXSW
Presenter: Alex Jones
This month’s meeting is all about clients. Whether you are a freelancer, at an agency or work in-house at a large corporation, you work for and with clients day in and day out. So, the first half of the meeting will discuss common client needs and expectations and how to create the best atmosphere possible for successful projects and relationships. Striking a balance that satisfies both sides of the equation takes a little bit of work up front, but pays huge dividends over time.
The second half of the meeting will be a Client Tip Roundup, which will consist of five to seven Refreshers sharing their tips, and tricks of client management.
Tags: business, event, meeting
We’re going to try something different this meeting to mix up the format and hopefully make it a little easier for those of us who aren’t seasoned presenters. Rather than have one person speak for the entire hour and a half or more, we’re going to have 1-3 micro-presentations that run from 30 mins to an hour (depending on number who present). This should help our presenters to be able to distill their information into a manageable time-chunk while also offering the attendees multiple sources of insight. Each presentation should fit nicely into the overall theme.
Usability, Design & E-commerce, presented by David Lee
Everything Before the Cart, presented by David Nunez
Tags: business, event, meeting
