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If you haven’t already received an invite, you can purchase tickets directly for FounderHacks by clicking here.  UPDATE: ticketing is working again.

We wanted to liberate the great advise shared at STIRR’s Founders Table in a larger format. Come join us for great Networking and an insightful story or two from some of the Founder’s Table alums.

The event kicks off on July 18th in a new location, new food, no disco ball - heck we’re all grown up.

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A big thank you to everyone on the waitlist.  We’ve maxed out at our limit for Mixer 2.5.  Please join us again next month.

Photos Courtesy of Lane Hartwell

DemoStage Presenters for 2.4 on April 11th This month’s presenters are:

	ApplicationExchange, Tim Delhaes, CEO Applicationexchange.com allows everybody - not just programmers - to build business applications through a simple web interface. Through partnerships with market leaders like Google these applications can be natively integrated with leading on-line services. This for example allows users in the future to view their customer email communication from within a customized CRM, view closing dates of opportunities in a Google Calendar or synchronize campaign information with Microsoft Adcenter.
	Edgeio, Keith Teare, Founder and CEO edgeio’s is a Platform for classified asdvertising online in the same way Adsense is a paltform for advertising. Its classifieds boards product is producing eCPMs of up to $4000 for web site owners. The company believes classified ads will form a major part in the next phase of internet content monetization.
	Spinn3r, Kevin Burton, Founder/CEO Why write your own spider when you can just use ours? In order to build Tailrank, we needed to create a spam-resistant and high performance spider to index the blogosphere. This involved spam prevention, language categorization, complex trust ranking, realtime ping support, etc. Needless to say, building a high quality spider is a difficult task. How does it work? Simple. You focus on building your application and we just give you access to our weblog index. Developers within your company just need to call our API every few minutes.
	Xcellery, Reto Laemmler, Founder/CEO Stop sending new versions of your spreadsheets, share them on Xcellery now! Xcellery lets you share and edit Excel files with others online. No installation is required. Xcellery combines the power of Excel with the power of the Internet. Changes are revision controlled. Work offline and synchronize back later. For non-Excel users, Xcellery also provides a browser-based editor.

More details about the 2.4 event here

It looks a full house for Founder’s Mixer 2.4 on Wednesday.  For anyone on the waitlist, hang in there until 2pm on Wed.  If any spaces open up we’ll be sending invites to the waitlist first.

The presenters:

	Buxfer, Ashwin Bharambe, Founder Buxfer an online shared alternative to Quicken.
	Criteo, Jean-Baptiste Rudelle, CEO A real-time personalized recommendation engine.
	Metaweb, Jamie Taylor, Minister of Information Freebase.com a home to a global knowledge base.
	Wrike, Andrew Filev, Founder Wrike.com marries web and e-mail, so you can easily work with your peers on plans and get things done.

The guest host for 2.3:

Rafe Needleman, Editor at Large

To keep STIRR events free for the entrepreneurs and the presenters, STIRR relies on generous sponsors. This month’s sponsor was Sun Microsystems and their Startup Essentials program. More about Sun and the Startup Essentials program at the end of this article.

The wrapups:

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  Salim Makes Good - Hundreds of Entrepreneurs now non-thirsty
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  Bubblicious on 2.3 “… the premiere monthly tech event” (blush)
  
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  Webware on Freebase and 2.3

The photos:

• Lane Hartwell
• Brian Solis
• Mark Villamek (AmmieWang Photography)

Mixer 2.3 Exclusive Sponsor:

STIRR thrives through great sponsors. Mixer 2.3 was sponsored by Sun Microsystems, and their Sun Startup Essentials Program. Sun announced Solaris Express, Developer Edition. the first release of a free new distribution based on the OpenSolaris project, providing developers with an integrated environment optimized for developing Solaris, Java, and Web 2.0-based applications on commodity desktop and laptop hardware. Sun also helps simplify development and speed deployment of secure Web-based applications and services with easy access to an AMP — Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python — stack recently optimized for the Solaris 10 OS. And the Sun Startup Essentials Program includes new features to help startup companies conserve cash, accelerate their development cycle on Solaris, Linux or Windows, and speed time to market. The program, which already provided discounts up to 60% on its enterprise-grade servers, was expanded to add Sun’s storage products at discounts of up to 70%, as well as free email support from Sun’s technical experts, and easy access to Sun’s free software. You can sign-up for Sun Startup Essentials here.

More Sun Startup Essentials details:

• Free software - get popular opensource infrastructure software, such as Apache, MySQL, Perl, PHP, postgres, Tomcat, etc.—all optimized for the Solaris operating system, and all free and ready to download.
  
• Discounted servers - get deep discounts on CoolThreads servers, x64 servers featuring AMD Opteron processors, and x64 and SPARC workstations.
• Discounted storage - get deep discounts on Sun StorageTek network and direct attached storage appliances, plus a Storage Area Network and Direct Attach Storage product enabling startups to start small and add capacity as needed
• Startups Ask Sun - get answers to your questions about architecture or Sun products and technologies from Sun engineering experts.

Mixer 2.4 is April 11st

If your company or a startup that you know is ready to launch and would like to present please see: http://www.stirr.net/apply/presenters