Oversee.net ’s DOMAINfest , a huge, annual event catering to the domain name business and domainers; running from Tuesday through Thursday, the event includes a headline keynote by Tony Hsieh of Zappos , and is capped off by a party at the (um, yes) Playboy Mansion on Thursday evening. Also on Thursday, the Founder Institute , an effort by Adeo Ressi of TheFunded to help incubate and mentor startups–with local efforts headed by Ken Rutkowski , is launching at a local event at Clearstone Venture Partners. ...Tags: This week is shaping up to be one of the busiest tech-event weeks so far this year yet, making me think again that a clone would help to actually get to all of these.

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