Hops & Chops

Let's kick off Hops and Chops 2012!

nosnivelling — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:12:19 -0800

Hey folks — we admit that Hops and Chops organization has been a little bit lax for the last few weeks (OK… months). So, let’s kick off 2012 with a good week this week. Would be great to catch up, and rumor has it that I’ll be buying at least 5 pitchers… 10 if Tony Wright or Todd Sawicki show up :-)

Holiday 2011 Hops & Chops — tomorrow (Thursday)...

nosnivelling — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:15:20 -0800

Holiday 2011 Hops & Chops — tomorrow (Thursday) night!

Same place (Auto Battery Bar, on Capitol Hill), starting at same time (6:30pm) as ever.

And, as a special bonus, I recently found two Hops & Chops t-shirts (size Large, sporting TeachStreet’s own JetPack Joe Sunga) — first folks to request them in-person, get ‘em!

See you soon… let’s toast Holiday 2011 in Hops & Chops style :-)

p.s. Oh, and if you’re going to be late, be sure to let us know via the TouchBase App (specially priced at $2.99 for Hops & Chops regulars…) — it’s groove-ilicious

Free beer at Hops and Chops this Thursday — hope to see...

nosnivelling — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:18:24 -0700

Free beer at Hops and Chops this Thursday — hope to see you at Auto Battery - 6:30pm

Come with ideas for Startup Weekend EDU projects — if you need a few to fire up your imagination, check out the edu-ideas that have already been submitted for consideration (and vote for your favorites!).

Oh yeah… and if you’re going to come to Hops and Chops this week, let us know via this page:

http://www.hivegram.com/hopsandchops

Ready to Get A Real Job (at a fast-growing Seattle...

nosnivelling — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 06:49:00 -0700

Ready to Get A Real Job (at a fast-growing Seattle startup)?

Calling all Developers, Designers and UX/front-end Geniuses. Are you ready to finally make the jump from BigCo (Amazon, Microsoft, Real, etc)?

If so, several of the Seattle area’s fastest-growing startups are hiring, and they’re making it incredibly easy for you to dip your toes in the water and see what they’ve got going on, and how it compares to your current digs.

Come register for the Get A Real Job Fair (Mon Sept 12, 6pm) — extra bonus is a kick-off discussion with/by Nat Brown, on developer startup life. Nat started as a Microsoft Developer and helped build COM+, XML, XBox and then went on to build iLike (sold to MySpace) and Rel8tion (sold to Facebook).

Hops and Choppers, ready to do some edu-hacking? Join us at...

nosnivelling — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 06:22:15 -0700

Hops and Choppers, ready to do some edu-hacking? Join us at Startup Weekend EDU over the 9/30-10/2 weekend. It’s gonna be awesome. Keynote speaker Mitch Kapor (ya know, invented Louts, et al). 100s of local entrepreneurs. $-rich VCs and Angels ;-) And, all to create some software to improve the state of education. Read all about Startup Weekend EDU.

Plus, you have a limited time chance to get Startup Weekend EDU discount tickets — but, even at full-price, this is going to be fantastic.

Sponsors include Maveron, Beacon Law Advisors, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft BizSpark, WowRack, Square 1 Bank, and more — that all means that we’re gonna have great food, and lots of beverages!

What are you waiting for? Register now — space is limited!

Field Trip this week!

daryn — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:05:20 -0700

One of the core tenets behind Hops & Chops is “Same Bat-Time, Same Bat-Channel”, but every now and then an event conflicts with the schedule and, well, who are we to turn down free beer?

So, this Thursday, August 18th:

DO NOT pass GO.
DO NOT collect $200.
DO NOT show up at Auto Battery.

Instead, come join us in celebrating the growing success of our friends Estately and Nine By Blue at their new offices downtown.

More Details & RSVP Here

Startup Weekend Seattle hosts this second-annual bash at...

nosnivelling — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:32:28 -0700

Startup Weekend Seattle hosts this second-annual bash at GasWorks Park, with help from Startup Digest, and media partner GeekWire. Enjoy some tasty eats and drinks, and come-one come-all for lawn games, including bocci, croquet, and every recovering-midwesterner’s favorite: corn hole. Startuppers can’t get enough foosball, so bring your A-game. Mix it up with entrepreneurs, investors and geeks. Tickets are cheap and will go fast, so sign up today.

"Entrepreneurs need to gather lots of feedback about their idea. 95% of the feedback is wrong. Great..."

joesunga — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:46:18 -0700

“Entrepreneurs need to gather lots of feedback about their idea. 95% of the feedback is wrong. Great entrepreneurs succeed because they figure out which 95% of the feedback to throw out.”

- — Galen Ward, CEO/Founder of online real estate company Estately, in response to @JasonFreedman’s great blog post yesterday entitled “Don’t give bullshit advice”.

Go read Jason’s post if you haven’t already, as there is more to the message than the title, but I think Galen’s got it right. (via daryn)

Jet Pack Joe (of Hops and Chops fame) flies over Grand...

nosnivelling — Thu, 26 May 2011 11:06:54 -0700

Jet Pack Joe (of Hops and Chops fame) flies over Grand Canyon… whooossssshhhhhhhh!

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nosnivelling — Thu, 26 May 2011 10:00:26 -0700

The World’s most interesting ruby developer… reminds...

nosnivelling — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:41:23 -0700

The World’s most interesting ruby developer… reminds me of Scott Windsor…

New email list for Hops and Chops

nosnivelling — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:34:21 -0700

Let’s party like it’s 1995 folks — for those of you who don’t read every item in your tweet-stream, we thought that it might be useful to have an actual Hops and Chops email list.

Sign up for the list here, or using the form on the right side of the blog —>

It’ll mail whenever we make updates to the blog — hopefully this’ll provide another way for folks to keep up-to-date on gatherings when people will actually be showing up in numbers (since, we admit, weekly attendance/energy has been a little sporadic)

Of course, we truly like to think of Hops and Chops as something that you don’t need to pre-plan or think about too much — it’s a place to go to find a few folks to bounce ideas off of, and recharge your energies. Hope it’s helpful.

Let us know if you have other ideas (of course, be prepared to have your ideas ignored, if they entail any actual work on our parts :-) )

Hops and Chops has been nominated for a 2010 TechFlash Flashie...

nosnivelling — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:30:21 -0800

Hops and Chops has been nominated for a 2010 TechFlash Flashie Award!

Now, we have a 0% chance of winning, as we’re in the same category as Seattle TechStars (i.e. the ‘Do-Gooder of the Year’ category), but that doesn’t reduce our overflowing pride at even being mentioned in the same sentence :-)

Come out to the Flashies on December 1st — it’ll be a blast!

Free Beer Tomorrow (11/18)

daryn — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:18:39 -0800

We’re teaming up with our friends from Beer2Buds to give you a free beer at Hops & Chops tomorrow.

Here’s the details:

How to get a Free Beer ($5 bucks):

All you have to do is send out a Tweet and include:
@hopsandchops and @beer2buds

When you arrive at Auto Battery, show us your tweet and Beer2Buds will Bump you $5 on your iPhone.

Of course you can choose to bet your $5 bucks away and accumulate more. Just find a beer buddy with an iPhone and challenge him/her to a bet. Loser bumps beer; winner stacks up their beer money account.

Don’t have an iPhone? DM us after your tweet and we’ll send you a beer before Thursday that you can print out and bring with you.

Gathering of Hops and Chops regulars… Red Foundry in the...

nosnivelling — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:40:00 -0800

Gathering of Hops and Chops regulars… Red Foundry in the house, TeachStreet’s Kenji Crosland, and a few others. Looks like I need to take some Photography classes or something like sewing classes :-)

Team TeachStreet goes @daveschappell for Halloween.

daryn — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:56:34 -0700

Team TeachStreet goes @daveschappell for Halloween.

Deploy 2010 - A new Seattle Software Developer conference

nosnivelling — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:01:32 -0700

Deploy 2010 is a conference focused on showcasing real-world applications of cutting-edge software development technologies. Tools, methodologies, frameworks, language and services are evolving at a faster pace than ever. Deploy 2010 will have a variety of speakers and talks to give developers, architects, managers and executives of tech companies a better understanding of the current landscape and what the future holds.

Who should attend?

Deploy 2010 will be a technology conference focused on software development. It’s perfect for developers of all backgrounds, whether you are still in college or are an industry veteran . It’s also valuable to managers and executives who have technologists in their organizations. However, Deploy 2010 is not for end-users or for those who aren’t working in the technology industry.

Official Hops and Chops t-shirts have arrived, with Jetpack Joe...

nosnivelling — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:07:03 -0700

Official Hops and Chops t-shirts have arrived, with Jetpack Joe as our official spokesmodel — here he is in full take-off pose!

Special Guest Dave McClure (500Startups) attending Hops and Chops this week

nosnivelling — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:34:00 -0700

Super Angel Dave McClure (500Startups) will be in Seattle this week, attending board meetings, meeting with entrepreneurs, speaking at StartupDay, and probably most important, headlining Hops and Chops on Thursday night at Auto Battery.

So, if you’ve got your elevator pitch primed, come try it out on Dave.

Here’s some advice though — he prefers to have his pitches served with a tasty beer, for both him and his buddies Dave and Daryn.

If you don’t know how to track him down, you probably don’t have much hope of getting any of his money — he’s @davemcclure

He looks like this and he’s really into Home Services!

Place your t-shirt order for Hops and Chops

nosnivelling — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:35:05 -0700

Yes, we’ve finally gone big-time. Placing our first t-shirt order. Cost will be $20. Design is below. Only one t-shirt type/color.

Add a comment to place your (a) order and (b) size.

Lovely, eh?