I would like to thank the presenters and the midventures team for what I would call our most successful midventures event to date. Presenters included RemixGalaxy.com, CommonGrants.com, GiveForward.org, ThePoint.com, CouponTweet.com, T1Track.com, and Zolio.com, and attendees included representatives from the chicago angel and VC investment community.




Here are the photos from the event:




February 20th Event Photos




Highlights from the evening? Kyle Reed with RemixGalaxy.com remixed a George Clinton song using an online remixing song while the audience watched. Andrew from ThePoint.com inspired us to contribute the construction of a glass dome over chicago, midcro-funded by the crowds. And everyone agreed to attend the next event in Chandigarh, India. We will be renting a 17th century palace. BYOB.

Hey midVentures. We are going to host terrace event in our loft building February 20th. The new venture presenters will include RemixGalaxy.com, CommonGrants.com, GiveForward.org, ThePoint.com, T1Track.com, and Zolio.com. Email me at geoff (at) midventures (dot) com if you want to attend.

Its no secret that midventures is constantly looking for all-star php, actionscript, and web 2.0 xhtml people. And in this economy finding people that can build a robust web app is still difficult. In this economy - being able to code in php or asp.net, with or without a computer science degree - at the level of competency of a $20k ecommerce or community site project or greater - gets you work fast. In fact, most of the programmers I’ve talked to get to call the shots about where they work.


3 years of experience in object-oriented php, asp.net, actionscript, java, ajax, or RoR can get you a $60k+ job. No degree required. You just need to be motivated to solve problems.


Admittedly I prefer to run around meeting people to sitting still and programming. But if you are in college or looking to change careers, take a few classes on coding and spend your free time working on your own projects; and suddenly you can call the shots about jobs you want.


Also a token of wisdom - if the economy gets worse, the developers are the last to be let go. Non-functional software is more devastating than a non-functional sales agent or marketing intern.


Send me an email geoff (at) midventures (dot) com if you want to pick up a language or a job.