Business and entrepreneurship events

• Startup Grind: Floodgate Capital, tonight
• Venture Shift, July 19
• PandoMonthly: Mark Pincus, July 19
• Tim Lee of Sequoia Capital, July 19
• San Francisco Bitcoin Social, July 23
• Branding for Startups, July 24
• Launch Like a Rocket, July 24 
• 11th Founder Showcase, July 25
• Web Mergers & Acquisitions, July 25
• Community Mngt for Startups, July 26
• Startup Summer Party 2012, July 26
• Lean Startup Circle, July 26
• Term Sheet Negotiation, July 27
• Startup Weekend: SoLoMo, July 27-29
• Business Ops for Startups, July 31
• Startup Grind SV: Dave McClure, Aug 1
• Founder Dating, Aug 2
• DrinkEntrepreneurs in SF, Aug 2
• Women Raising the Bar, Aug 6
• SF Nightowls @ WeWork Labs, Aug 7
• Xconomy with Eventbrite, Aug 7
• unSEXY conference, Aug 9
• Behavioral Econs Summit, Aug 25-26
• Data Week, Sept 22-27
• DEMO FALL 2012, Oct 1-3
• Life After Twitter: Biz Stone, Oct 3
• UserConf, Oct 12
• FailCon, Oct 22

Must-reads, link love

• US VC Has Biggest Quarter Since Dot-Com
• Requiem For A Digg
• How the 2 Americas Spend Their Time
• IDEO Launches A Start-Up Incubator
• Prepare For An Angel Round
• America's new business model: Sharing
• Useful Resource: WhoGotFunded
• Why Millennials Don't Want To Buy Stuff
• Travelling with Your Startup
• 8 Ways The World Will Change By 2052
• Is the Web Driving Us Mad?
• Infographic: Always Connected
• Exactly How Screwed Is PayPal?
• Marissa Mayer: New Hope for Yahoo
• Who Owns the Website, and Why
• Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30?
• How to Hack Free Flights

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Digital and tech events

• Tech Talk: Erica Kwan, Square, tonight
• Intro to HTML and CSS, July 19
• Responsive Web Applications, Jul 19
• Innovators of the Web Conf, July 21
• Intro to Amazon CloudSearch, July 23
• Intro to Building Wireframes, July 23, 30
• Topic Models and Applications, July 26
• Betable Hackathon, July 27-29
• Intro to SQL, Aug 1
• Basics for Non-Programmers, Aug 2
• Facebook Ecosystem CrunchUp, Aug 3
• Intro to Usability Research and UX, Aug 9
• GigaOM’s Mobilize Conference, Sept 20-21

Creative, design and culture events

• Advertising in a Digital World, July 19
• Coffee & Community at The Happiness Institute, July 19
• ByteNight @ CHM, July 19
• Screen Printing For Newbies, July 19
• Community Activists Meetup, July 19
• Women Who Code Coworking, July 20
• Shut Up and Write!, July 21
• iPhone Photography Workshop, July 22
• Professionals in Transportation, July 24
• Intro to Copywriting, July 25
• AdTech Mixer, July 26
• Hack for Change 2012, July 28-29
• Worldwide InstaMeet, July 29
• Designers + Geeks Meetup, Aug 1
• GIVE A SH1%T, Aug 2
• Collab Happy Hour: SideCar, Aug 2 
• Self Portraiture For Non-Narcissists, Aug 9

SF local: Emily Castor

We had the pleasure of chatting to Emily Castor, the Lyft community manager at Zimride, and cofounder and host at Collaborative Chats. Read more here and find out the latest in ridesharing.