To the Silicon Valley Startup Community,
We would love to help everyone who reaches out to us, but the Silicon Valley [Startup Digest] audience has gotten so big (now over 16,000 people) that some of your needs are falling through the cracks. Whenever that happens, the startup ecosystem suffers. We can't let that happen, so we are asking you to support each other.
We are testing out a new digest. It's called Help a Startup Out. It will feature the needs of members of the Silicon Valley startup community and rely on you to respond to them. If you like the test, we will share the needs of the community on Wednesdays.
As you can see below, these needs usually include service requests from startup leaders (like Eric Ries), jobs at hot startups, and calls for beta testers or cool applications.
To make sure that you don't waste your time with meaningless requests and, honestly, to help us eat ramen every day, we are going to charge $100 to have your need highlighted to the entire Silicon Valley startup community.
If you hate this test of Help a Startup Out, please tell us. You can unsubscribe here. If the community is against it, we’ll never do it again.
If you love this test of Help a Startup Out and you want to share your needs in the next issue, submit your request here.
If you are open to it, we think that this simple email could be a very powerful tool for fellow entrepreneurs to help each other, faster.
After all, when one of us succeeds, the community wins.
- Chris & Brendan Co-Founders of [Startup Digest]   
These Members of the Startup Community Need Your Help:
- Eric Ries
- WebWallFlower Events
- KISSinsights
- Stanford SSE Labs
- Wildfire Interactive
- LaunchHear
- iSocket
- Chromatik
- StartupRoots
 The Startup Lessons Learned Conference is by-and-for entrepreneurs, and only entrepreneurs. It has a lineup of speakers who are primarily active practitioners of the lean startup methodology. They'll be speaking about their real-life experiences trying to put these ideas into practice. You'll also have a chance to hear from the leading lights of the lean startup movement, including Steve Blank, Sean Ellis, Dave McClure, and many more. Startup Lessons Learned is also looking for international partners interested in organizing viewing parties in their local communities.
Startup Lessons Learned needs livestream partners. To join them, contact Charles Hudson at charles@charleshudson.net.
Also, if you want to buy tickets for the Startup Lessons Learned Conference, take advantage of early-bird pricing (ends on Friday) and enter the code "the digest" for 20% off here.
 Do you want to help throw kick ass startup events? Cass Phillipps (Founder of WebWallflower Events and one of the leading producers of startup events in the Bay Area) is looking an individual interested in the startup and/or event production industries for an internship 10+ hours/week. While this opportunity would start unpaid, a % of profits from events and tasks worked on by the individual would be paid as stipend following the first 3-4weeks of assistance. Expectation is 10 - 15hrs/week.
Email Cass Phillipps (cassiph@gmail.com) to help her fill her new internship opportunity.
 KISSInsights has created a tool to make it simple to collect instant customer feedback through: survey templates, survey widgets on pages, and tracking and reviewing this feedback.
KISSinsights needs beta testers. Join them at http://beta.kissinsights.com/
 SSE Labs, a startup accelerator for Stanford student entrepreneurs that provides participants with full financial support, educational and networking events as well as guidance from experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and lawyers is actively looking for mentors, speakers and investors.
SSE Labs needs mentors. To offer your services, email cjtman@stanford.edu.
 Wildfire Interactive has some of the world's very best ruby-on-rails developers on its team (three of their developers are among the top 30 ruby-on-rails contributors in the world). They are open to developers working remotely, so no need for you to be based in the US.
Wildfire needs great ruby-on-rails developers. To apply, send your resume to jobs@wildfireapp.com with "Ruby on Rails Ninja via [Startup Digest]" as the subject line.
 LaunchHear introduces top bloggers to new/unreleased products completely for free. They democratize PR by giving even the smallest companies the chance to get huge organic buzz, but only if their products are good enough.
LaunchHear needs bloggers and entrepreneurs with new consumer products to sign up at http://launchhear.com/
 isocket is building an advertising platform to help sites like TechCrunch (their first customer) sell their own ads.
isocket needs a platform engineer to help them meet growing customer demand. To apply, head here.
 Learning music? Chromatik just launched a prototype, and they're rockin' and rollin'...literally. Massive updates to come.
Chromatik needs to hear what you want to see next. Join their beta at http://chromatikmusic.com/
 Startup Roots is a non-profit that finds great summer interns for startups. Both students and startups apply to StartupRoots and they hand-pick only the best applicants.
Startup Roots will host a weekly speaker series for startups and their interns from top-notch entrepreneurs and VC's to benefit the community. Speakers include angel investors Jeff Clavier (investor in Mint), Ann Miura-Ko (firm invested in Twitter, Digg, Chegg), Steve Blank (Professor at Stanford, started 7 companies), and more!
StartupRoots needs startups that are looking to hire summer interns. To submit yours, go to http://startuproots.org.
Tell Chris & Brendan: founders@thestartupdigest.com
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