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Twiistup 007: Date, Speakers, Early Bird Special

Tech Zulu Event

Today Twiistup has announced it official date of January 28th 2010 and an awesome lineup of its first confirmed speakers. Rick has led and sits on the board of 4 FirstMark portfolio companies, including Clickable, Weplay, Live Gamer and Riot Games. Twist And Shout for Twiistup 5. Relive the Magic of Twiistup 4.

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. I have some pretty specific thoughts on the differences between companies in the two cities, as I wrote about in my previous post A Tale of Two Tech Cities. Challenge #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

Tech Zulu Event

Twiistup is just 2 weeks away and there have been a whole slew of announcements within these past few days. And now what you have all been waiting for.the TechZulu Twiistup discount. Twiistup 007 Speaker List: Peter Guber. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. .

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Digital Revenue Expert – Vince Thompson

SoCal CTO

I started out as screenwriter, went into local television, ran ad sales in the west for AOL and joined Facebook in the companies very early days. I also serve as CEO of a small media companies that profile “Tomorrow’s Most Exciting People Today”. I help internet companies make money. I usually.just focus on revenue.

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Interview with Mike Macadaan, Urbandig

socalTECH

One of Urbandig's co-founders, Mike Macadaan -- the former VP of User Experience at MySpace, and creator of the technology conference Twiistup--sat down to talk to us about the company. He's fairly well known, he funded another company called Punchd, which recently sold to Google. What's the idea behind Urbandig?

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