Greenhorn Weekly Countdown Feb 26th - March 3rd

The fun from last week continues through this next week as more great events are coming up in the Boston startup Scene. Though there's only 22 networking events and office hour opportunities planned, a lot of good stuff is coming at you fast. So get out there and see what's happening in Boston!

Extra Announcements:

1) AngelHack - Get in for free with GHC! 
AngelHack is a weekend long hackfest coming March 3rd and features great judges and prizes. Sign up by Feb 29th with discount code "greenhorn" and get in FREE!

2) WebInnovators 33 next week! WebInno brings together over 1,000 Boston entrepreneurs once a quarter. This edition features the winners of AngelHack *plus* a discussion of the early days of Endeca with founder Steve Papa (recently acquired for $1Bn+) Sign up here!

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No Recommended Events.
GSD on your startup and get ready for a huge week!

/// Tuesday

No Recommended Events.
GSD on your startup and get ready for a huge week!

/// Wednesday

OpenCoffee Cambridge Meetup

Description: Fellow web entrepreneurs and VCs gather once a week in Boston to grab some coffee, free WiFi, and chat about what's new. Around the world, tech entrepreneurs and investors are meeting regularly to drink coffee, network and hopefully do deals. No more of the old-school "please send us your executive summary before we'll even talk to you". A place to find opportunities.
Time: Wednesday, Mar 7, 8:30am - 10:30am
Place: Voltage Coffee & Art 295 3rd Street Cambridge, MA 02139

Tax Issues for Early Stage Companies

Description: Hear the tax issues you need to be thinking about as an emerging company. We'll provide lunch and a short presentation with information about:

        • Personal income taxes on restricted stock and options
        • Income taxes associated with vesting
        • Tax preferences for qualified small businesses
        • Entity structure and taxation
        • Losses and credits
        • State tax issues

With tax filing deadlines around the corner we will also touch on some key compliance topics for early stage companies.

Time: Wednesday, Feb 29, 12:00pm - 12:00pm
Place: Havana Meeting Room, 5th Floor Cambridge Innovation Center 1 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02142

Student Tech Meetup #StudTech

Description: Student Tech Meetup is all about building the student entrepreneurship community in Boston. The premise is simple: Bring 9 or 10 student startups into an auditorium. Give them 3 to 5 minutes each to demo something cool to Boston's tech community. Afterwards, meet up with other entrepreneurially minded students. If you go to school in the Boston area and you're interested in startups, this event's for you. 
Time: Wednesday, Feb 29, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Place: Boston University School of Management - SMG 105 - 295 Commonwealt h Ave - Boston, MA 02215

PyCon on the Charles, part 2

Description: The Boston Python User Group PyCon 2012 is coming up in March in Santa Clara. In this second of two sessions, four Boston-area speakers will practice their presentations. If you can't make it to PyCon, this is a great way to see some of the PyCon talks, and also help your fellow Bostonians polish their presentations.

• Stop Writing Classes, Jack Diederich (Intermediate)
• This talk will describe examples of class overuse taken from real world code and refactor the unnecessary classes, exceptions, and modules out of them.
• Pragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain?, Ned Batchelder (Novice)
• Python has great Unicode support, but it's still your responsibility to handle it properly. I'll do a quick overview of what Unicode is, but only enough to get your program working properly. I'll describe strategies to make your code work, and keep it working, without getting too far afield in Unicode la-la-land.
• Diversity in practice: How the Boston Python Meetup grew to 1000 people and over 15% women, Jessica McKellar & Asheesh Laroia (Intermediate)
• How do you bring more women into programming communities with long-term, measurable results? In this talk we'll analyze our successful effort, the Boston Python Workshop, which brought over 200 women into Boston's Python community this year. 

Time: Wednesday, Feb 29, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Place: Microsoft New England Research & Development Center (NERD) - One Memorial Drive, Suite 100 - Cambridge, MA 02142

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Hack/Hackers: How to Keep Your News Site Sticky

Description:  It’s a lot of work to capture audience share. And once you have those hard-won readers, you want them to stay – not click away. Our panel will discuss tools that can help make a news site more “sticky.” From embedding third-party content on the fly to adding community and real-time social media activity to the news page, we’ll learn some potential digital answers to enhanced reader engagement.
Our panel-in-the-making:

• Ziad Sultan is the founder/CEO of Marginize,
• Sean Creeley is the co-founder Embed.ly Inc. 

Time: Thursday, Mar 1, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Place: Boston Globe - 135 Morrissey Blvd. - Dorchester, MA 02108

/// Weekend Specials

AngelHack Hackathon

Description: AngelHack has arrived! Compete with top talent from around the country at AngelHack's National Hackathon, where you can build startups, pitch to investors, and win over $75,000 in prizes. Finalists get invited back on March 5th to pitch their startup to a national audience and panel of angel investors, including AngelList’s Naval Ravikant. 
Time: Saturday, Mar 3, 9:00am - 11:45pm
Place: CIC, 1 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02142
Cost: $55 (use discount code "greenhorn" and get in FREE!)

HBS Entrepreneurship Conference - Inspire. Create. Execute

Description: Come, spend a day with today's most accomplished entrepreneurs as they discuss their experiences launching new ventures and building innovative businesses. Speakers include entrepreneurs, VCs and industry veterans.

With the likes of Alfred Lin (ex-Chairman of Zappos, Partner at Sequoia) and Nathan Blecharczyk (co-founder of Airbnb) speaking at the event, and several new features such as a business pitch contest, demos, and VC coffee chats in store, this year's conference promises to be an event you don't want to miss!
Time: Sunday, Mar 4, 8:30am - 6:00pm
Place: Harvard Business School, Boston, MA
Cost: $30 (Students) / $50 (Others)

Boston Media Makers

Description: Boston Media Makers get together at Doyle’s in Jamaica Plain on the first Sunday of each month from 10 AM – Noon. We gather around a big table and answer the question, “What are you doing?” If you are interested in meeting people who are working with audio and video on the web, this is a great meeting to attend. We get podcasters, videobloggers, filmmakers, artists, writers, PR and social media people. Everyone is welcome. Sometimes we have a roundtable discussion after we hear from everyone, but there usually isn’t extra time. It’s fun. Contact Steve Garfield for more info.
Time: Sunday, Mar 4, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Place: Doyle’s Cafe 3484 Washington Street Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA, 02130

Event of the Week Sponsored by Microsoft NERD

AngelHack Hackathon

Why? This is the biggest hack competition we've seen in some time in Boston and we even get to compete against SF for some awesome prizes! 

Student Event of the Week

Student Tech Meetup #StudTech

Why? If you can't make the AngelHack Hackathon, take this week to connect with other student entrepreneurs at the Student Tech Meetup!