Business and entrepreneurship events

• Founders Space SF Roundtable, Dec 6
• DrinkEntrepreneurs in SF, Dec 6
• Startup Party San Francisco, Dec 7
• Founder's Guide to Fundraising, Dec 8
• Growthathon, Dec 8
• BizSpark Lab Holiday Event, Dec 10
• Legal Basics For Business, Dec 11
• Rockstar SEO Strategy, Dec 11
• Ed-Tech Holiday Mixer, Dec 11
• Why Startups Fail, Dec 11
• Retail Mixer: UX of Shopping, Dec 12
• International Founders and Startup Immigration, Dec 12
• Startup Grind Holiday Party, Dec 12
• Silicon Valley Hack and Tell, Dec 12
• Holiday Tweetup with Brian Solis, Dec 13
• This Week in Startups, LIVE!, Dec 14
• Community Management, Dec 19

Cool jobs

• Software Developer, Kahn Academy
• Tech Evangelist, Microsoft
• UI/UX Designer, SmartAsset (YC S12) 
• Community Manager, Autodesk
• Manager of Media Relations, Virgin
• Email your jobs through!

Featured event: Community Building for Startups

Join Kate from The Fetch as she covers an overview of community management, the nature and emergence of this role; including tips and hacks to grow a community from scratch. Register here for Dec 19.

Must reads, link love

• SF Needs to Get Over Itself
• You Don't Have to Be Local
• Solving the Pipeline Problem
• Give a Raise or Let the Employee Quit?
• SF and the Micro Unit Controversy
• Keep Bad Moods From Taking You Over
• Big List of Twitter Bootstrap Resources
• Questions to Add A Potential Cofounder
• Does a Good Engineering Culture Matter?
• Abandoned on Everest: Dead Bodies
• How to Behave During Notice Period
• I Love Twitter, Barely Tolerate Facebook
• How To Conquer Apartment Hunting
• Burn Your Business Plan
• Losers Exist. Don’t Hire Them
• Event Review: Women 2.0 PITCH NYC
• The Fetch Awarded Founder of The Year
• Aggregation-only is Just Info Vomit: The Fetch on Email Newsletters

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Digital and tech events

• Airbnb Tech Talk: Ilya Grigorik, tonight 
• Hardware Startup Meetup, Dec 6
• Advanced JS: Working with APIs, Dec 6
• SF Photoshop Users Group, Dec 6
• Clojure User Group, Dec 6
• Data Driven UX Design, Dec 6
• Tech for Good Startup Weekend, Dec 7-9
• Mobile-Loco, Dec 11
• How to Build a Mobile App, Dec 11
• Intro to Information Architecture, Dec 12
• Tots & Bots: Celebrating Tech Toys, Dec 13
• Building Products with Ruby on Rails, Dec 13
• Ruby Meetup Group, Dec 13
• Women Who Code Hack Night, Dec 14
• Redesigning Mobile Experiences, Dec 18
• Intro to iOS App Marketing, Dec 19
• Designers + Geeks: Holiday, Dec 20

Featured event: GA's Assembled Capital

Join General Assembly for a day of talks, panels, and personal conversations about fundraising strategies with Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs. Use code TF15 for a 15% discount. Register here for Dec 8.

Creative, design, green and culture events

• Beginner's Guide to Social Media, Dec 6
• Business Essentials for Designers, Dec 6
• Make-a-thon: Create for a Cause, Dec 8
• Studio To Market, Dec 9
• iPhoneography 201, Dec 10
• Watch Start-ups: Silicon Valley with BRAVO's Kim, Dwight & David, Dec 11
• OakX: Better By Design, Dec 11
• Trendy Lime Holiday Soiree, Dec 12 
• Aging2.0 Meetup, Dec 13
• Holiday TechKaraoke, Dec 16
• Berlin-Style Ping Pong, Dec 21

Local profile: Eric Ries and Ian McFarland

This week we headed to the Lean Startup Conference (event wrap-up coming soon) and got some questions in with lean startup champions Eric Ries and Ian McFarland. You can also check out the entire uncut video from the event online.