October 2012 Newsletter: Fill & Download for Free

Instamojo Inc. is a web-based Indian startup founded in 2012 by Aditya Sengupta, Akash Gehani, Harshad Sharma and Sampad Swain. It is based out of Bangalore, India.It primarily provides customers a platform to sell digital goods like ebooks, reports, comic books, music, software, templates, photos, tutorials etc. by listing the item on the website and sharing the web link with others. As per reports the company has over 4,300 sellers.Swain, co-founder at the startup said he got the idea for Instamojo when he started a newsletter containing video interviews of entrepreneurs.The company was selected in the fifth batch of 500 Startups in October 2012 and has received funding from angel investors like Rajan Anandan and Sunil Kalra.Instamojo pays the seller 95 percent of every successful transaction for digital goods and 98 percent of every successful transaction for physical goods and products not hosted on their servers.

I run one called The Grappler. We cover finance and investing for recent college grads and young professionals. I started in October 2012 and have under 5K subs, but it is a great business model and to Jeff's point, we are trying different ways to leverage social media in addition to email. We are a lot younger than the other posters, but still see opportunity with this model.

I'm assuming you're interested in startup and technology-related events. Otherwise, Mercury News and events.sfgate.com will cover you.If my assumption is correct, then the short answer - there isn't any such great newsletter, if by "great" you mean "comprehensive".StartupDigest - http://startupdigest.com/silicon-valley/ - is good, but in its curation, by necessity it will miss many events (See Dan Dascalescu's answer to What are some of the good and bad things about the Silicon Valley (& SF Bay Area) StartupDigest?)Eventbrite (company) and Meetup and good aggregators, if you're willing to search for some keywords and do the date filtering.Eventful (company) is the largest event aggregator in the US. events.sfgate.com and other similar event aggregators are not targeted at startup events at all. For example, around the first week of October 2012, the DEMO conference made it, but events like those at Blackbox or VC Task Force didn't, and most likely never will.Plancast is weak (http://plancast.com/plan/browse/normal/category/startups and http://plancast.com/plan/browse/normal/category/technology)http://vctaskforce.com/ hosts startup pitch events several times a month.http://vator.tv/events has larger, but less frequent, startup eventshttp://sanfrancisco.networkafterwork.com/san%20francisco/index.htm has busniess networking events in San Francisco. Cool settings usually, inexpensive cover.All in all, you're left with having to check a dozen event sources. See What are the best startup networking events/meetups in San Francisco? for some great ones.DEFUNCT:Gary's Guide no longer covers the Bay Area. NYC only.http://awesomevi.com/events/ was a calendar maintained by Vi Tran.http://upcoming.yahoo.com had a Technology section, though you won't find startup events there.