Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category

Weekend Apps - Build Facebook Apps in One Weekend

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 […]

SNAP Summit Wrap-Up: Facebook talks down, Lorenzen talks Bubble, Scoble talks Scoble

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 […]

Women in Venture Capital

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 […]

Startups in Silicon Valley once again causing a STIRR

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 […]

LuckyOliver Party at Ace Auto

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, […]

Ideas Come a Dime a Dozen!

Taking advantage of many web-startup events taking place around San
Francisco, a conversation that I’ve heard more than once a conversation that
goes something like
“So what’s your startup?”
“… I have an idea but I really do not talk about it, keeping it stealth.”
The first fear that that a founder of a startup has to get over is: […]

LIVE @ SF NewTech Meetup

Wednesday’s night event was the SF NewTech Meetup organized by Myles Weissleder. It was a good event with an amazing turnout! (Very likely attributed to Guy Kawasaki’s attendance) Here’s my evaluation:
1) Quality of Presentations: 8.5/10 (Guy Kawaski was half the show. Amazing! Mo Kakwan also had a captivated audience.)
2) Venue: […]

LIVE @ Silicon Valley Newtech Meetup!

The event of tonight was the Silicon Valley Newtech Meetup, organized by Vincent Lauria. The first hour or so was dedicated to presentations, as they always are. Nothing too new… I’m beginning to get tired of seeing Lucky Oliver everywhere I go. I’m yet to step foot on their website! But […]