January 2012 Verge Kickoff

Happy Monday! We are kicking off this year’s startup event lineup with a classic meetup in downtown Indianapolis on Thursday, January 26 at 6:00 PM (registration is live now). This Thursday, you can expect to find a crowd of over 200 people at the Earth House Collective, where attendees will pack into the auditorium to drink, chat, and enjoy three engaging entrepreneur presentations: ViewYou (http://viewyou.com/), the visual platform for connecting students and employers Quick Box Social (http://quickboxsocial.com/), a software that simplifies building interactive facebook pages Fireside chat from Christopher Day (http://digital.ibj.com/Olive/ODE/IBJFORTY/LandingPage/LandingPage.aspx?href=SUJKRk9SVFkvMjAxMC8wMi8wMQ..&pageno=MTA.&entity=QXIwMTAwMw..&view=ZW50aXR5), who has built five companies over the past two decades and is an active investor with Navidar (http://www.navadar.com/). Food and drink will be provided thanks to our phenomenal sponsors: Slingshot SEO (http://www.slingshotseo.com/), Expected Behavior (http://www.expectedbehavior.com/), DeveloperTown (http://www.developertown.com/), and BLASTmedia (http://www.blastmedia.com/). If you bump in to someone from on of these companies at the event, please be sure to thank thank them!

Registration is now open through the Verge meetup page (https://www.meetup.com/vergeindy/). Presentations will be streamed live on the Verge facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/vergeindy) on the day of the event (Thursday, January 26 at 6:00 PM). Best, Matt