I will be giving a presentation at the Weekend Apps [http://blog.weekendapps.com/about/] event on February 22nd. This event, which will take place over the course of 3 days, will bring together some very bright minds to build a number of [what I hope to be] excellent Facebook Applications. Weekend Apps takes cues from the very successful […]
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A few days ago I attended the Lunch 2.0 event hosted at Oodle’s office in San Mateo. It was a departure from other Lunch 2.0 events I’ve attended for two important reasons: First, the food was really good Mediterranean cuisine, and second, there were no name tags.
Without name tags, the possible obvious conversation […]
Today at the SNAP Summit, Lee Lorenzen said something that was both scary and encouraging, and it summed up the current social network platform craze very well. I can’t quote directly, but the gist of it was this: If this is a new era in what could potentially become a new bubble, we’re […]
Now that we actually have something to show off which demonstrates that we kind of know what we’re doing, Alex and I have decided to get back into the habit of attending meetups.
Meetups are strange beasts. A bunch of people, bound by a broad common interest, lack of other social outlets and/or real industry […]
Last night was the annual Google Dance held at the Google Campus in Mountain View. There is no better place to feel like you are back in high school/college at the school dance while also enjoying the free food/beer/entertainment. There is always your breakdancers who gather a circle of crowd on the dance floor which isn’t always at […]
Girls in Tech presented a “Women in Venture Capital” panel discussion at Porter Novelli’s very nice and sheeky SF office space. The main focus of the event was aimed towards women entrepreneurs and the ratio was about 50/50 for men and women. As far as appealing the event to women, being an event in the […]
Note from the Managing Editor: It’s exciting to see more women participate in entrepreneurship! We absolutely need more of them. I wasn’t at the event so I cannot comment on the quality of presentations, but I did see Platial.com’s 5 minute pitch and thought it was pretty motivating to see. Girls, keep […]
As an entrepreneur, networking is the best thing you could possibly do to either get feedback about your idea or to get an idea. Going to networking events will definitely help you make a good step in coming out with a business or can even get you a job at a startup.
Jessica Mah and Alex […]
Picture of Jessica Mah of Startupism and Alex Notov of Startupism & the “Soon-to-be eBay of Services”
Stirr had its monthly mixer event once again at a new place this month a new format called Founder Hacks. Four founders presented and shared some tips or “hacks” that each went through in the process of getting funding […]
Last thursday, LuckyOliver had its one year anniversary birthday party at Ace Auto, a junkyard in San Francisco.LuckyOliver is a website that allows you to purchase and sell stock images. Ace Auto was a pretty cool place to visit and was also surprisingly clean and organized for a junkyard. To purchase photos on the website, […]
