socalTECH
FEBRUARY 10, 2011
Los Angeles area startups and would-be entrepreneurs were gathered Thursday as a part of the annual Twiistup technology conference, being held at the Skirball Center. The startup event--which continues until tonight--included keynotes by David Cohen of TechStars, Suneel Gupta of Groupon, Loic Le Meur of Seesmic, and many others.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 11, 2011
Nazar--who moderated a panel on the venture capital industry in Los Angeles at Twiistup 8 yesterday, and who is considered by many to be one of the key "super connectors" in the LA technology community--took a few minutes with us to give his advice to startup entrepreneurs. That's the way to develop those relationships.
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2010
This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Francisco Dao came up with the idea of letting 10 companies that weren’t selected for Twiistup to do a presentation the night before to a group of people and let the audience pick one company to win the final slot at Twiistup.
Tech Zulu Event
APRIL 8, 2010
Twiistup just announced a new "Ultimate Executive Conference" to be held at a 5-Diamond resort in Dana Point, CA. Here is the email from Twiistup Producer Francisco Dao : "We're excited to announce a very special event called The Retreat. Why haven't I received an invite to the Retreat?
Tech Zulu Event
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
Today Twiistup has announced it official date of January 28th 2010 and an awesome lineup of its first confirmed speakers. He’s currently working on a new programming language called Arc, a new book on startups, and is one of the partners in Y Combinator. Prior to founding FirstMark Capital, Rick was a Partner with Pequot Ventures.
socalTECH
MARCH 23, 2011
Jason Nazar is CEO and founder of Santa Monica-based document sharing firm DocStoc , and recently put together his thoughts on the challenges, and opportunities, facing startups in Los Angeles. I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. Whereas in Silicon Valley, you can have a V.1 READ MORE>>.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. Zorik Gordon is tearing it up at ReachLocal.
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