SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 17, 2009

Thursday, July 23, 2009 -- FundingPost's SoCal Angel and Venture Conference. At our next event, the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing:How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check!

SoCal 100

SoCal Southern California Conference Angel 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 19, 2011

We have partnered up with DMW for the LA Game Conference and their Gamification and Transmedia Workshops. With a grand total of over $2400 worth of tickets we are sending 4 lucky (1 to each workshop and 2 to LA Game Conference) TechZulu readers to these amazing events. I want LA Game Conference). FREE tickets of course!

Conference 84

Conference Press Hollywood Writing 84

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. So I thought I’d write a piece on how not to suck when you give a presentation. is there a theme for the event?

Slides 399

Slides Startup Conference Writing 399

socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

Earlier this month, the annual Montgomery Summit conference was held in Santa Monica, including a special portion of the conference dedicated to the Rise of the Female Entrepreneur. It took about half of one day for the event, focused on the Rise of the Female Entrepreneur, and showcasing what women are building.

Capital 162

Capital Entrepreneur Invest Artificial Inteligence 162

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 29, 2014

Maybe they’ve hit a few set backs: They’ve struggled to raise money, they haven’t gotten press coverage or they haven’t gotten accepted to present at prestigious conferences. Do you think that every conference organizer will promptly meet your needs? It’s your job to persist. Nothing beats a warm intro.

Venture Capital 389

Venture Capital Email Startup Conference 389

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In addition, the discipline of producing it, like writing a business plan, will help you immensely in understanding the key elements that drive you and your business. I often hear the excuse that writing a book takes precious time away from building and running your business, which you cannot afford.

Writing 19

Writing Technical Review Entrepreneur Advertising 19

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Five-and-a-half years ago I first met Chamillionaire at a tech conference in LA. I saw him on stage at the event talking about how he used social media to engage audiences. I reached out after the event to learn more. We started hanging out a bit and discussing technology and entrepreneurship.

Conference 150

Conference Slides Social Media Summary 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2017

We’re expected to be at conferences, events, sales meetings and be publicly visible. Recruiting, business development, shipping product, writing blog posts, networking … it’s all the same. We are over-intro’d and at the same time under-resourced in terms of staff to handle the barrage of in-bound requests.

Activity 297

Activity Blogging Email Startup 297

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This may mean attending industry conferences, taking college courses, or reading some key books. It may be time for you to start your own blog, write a book, or volunteer as a speaker at public events in your domain. Many entrepreneurs I know wait for that big event to celebrate their leadership.

Entrepreneur 132

Entrepreneur Course Satisfaction SpaceX 132

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2021

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your school or industry. Nurture existing relationships.

Entrepreneur 140

Entrepreneur Startup Social Network Mentor 140

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2013

The other worthwhile exercise is to write down what your competitors uses as its USPs – even ones that you don’t think are really valuable to customers. They may have met you at a conference, attended a web conference or somehow else interacted with your company’s marketing department. So what’s next? Startup Advice'

Sales 336

Sales Startup Competition Custom 336

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Harris writes: “The figures, dating back to 2016, paint a picture of a company desperate to meet over-ambitious autonomy targets and one that is willing to spend freely, even recklessly, to get there. There were mutterings at the event, and wild cries on Twitter, of disappointment (there were plenty of platitudes as well).

San Fernando 217

San Fernando Los Angeles Commerce News 217

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2010

And when I have time I try to write back. So that’s: Marketing / conference invitations – 100 x 5 seconds = That’s still > 8 minutes. Many days I have a breakfast meeting, back-to-back meetings all day and then an evening event. Or I’m at BOD meetings or conferences. Let’s face it.

Email 265

Email Startup Writing Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

I worked with an entrepreneur who was to appear at a startup networking event where he was to talk about his company’s plans. He considered pulling out of the event because he wanted to stay in “stealth mode&# and felt an event like this compromised him. Say hello to them at conferences. Read their articles.

Marketing 380

Marketing Startup Press Technical Advisors 380

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. The reality is that a journalist who’s writing a story about you – a relatively unknown entity – wants to hear directly from the founders and/or the CEO.

Press 319

Press Startup Writing Training 319

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

It starts in a crowded room at a conference or networking event. I’ve met Sam several times and each time I’ve been at an event with him I’ve heard his opening line, “My name is Sam Jones. I was at a crowded event, Launchpad LA, at the SLS Hotel and had drunk several beers and as the host had a ton of people waiting to chat.

Startup 315

Startup Content Conference Media 315

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

I recently attended and presented at Dave McClure’s PreMoney conference in San Francisco. I go every year because I love events hosted & moderated by insiders involving discussions by insiders because it maximizes the amount of real discussions people have. tl;dr version.

Venture Capital 309

Venture Capital SaaS Writing Funding 309

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2015

Trade show veterans know that the louder you scream at an industry event, the less your voice is heard. Dreamforce is the conference for sales and marketing professionals. Hosted by SAAS giant Salesforce, it is more akin to a circus than a professional event. Good question. I am a trade show skeptic.

Conference 100

Conference SaaS Ideas Sales 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

PR is a process, not an event - For starters let me say that you shouldn’t do PR around milestones. Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. I write on my blog how I think in my head.

Startup 349

Startup Writing Blogging Press 349

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

For our Insights and Opinions section today, we have a piece from GRP Partners' Mark Suster , who--after watching and judging pitches at last week's Twiistup event--gives some hints and tips about how not to suck at presentations. This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Show some energy!

Twiistup 124

Twiistup GRP Partners Tips UCLA 124

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Planana – Sponsorship money for your next event. Some of us are incredible at getting people to an event, but horrible at asking them to pay to attend. Planana handles getting sponsorship dollars for your event so you can focus on marketing it. UberConference – Visual conference calling without video.

Startup 77

Startup Conference Google Web 77

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2012

Although put together by UCLA its not just a UCLA Student event. On Friday night during the 48hr startup event, participants arrive motivated to start new technology companies. Saturday, April 14 – Boelter Hall 4th floor conference rooms. You can signup here. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow.

UCLA 87

UCLA Startup Ideas Mentor 87

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

He keynotes leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, enterprise application integration, and enterprise architecture. He spends a great deal of time and energy shaping customer and industry direction with regular conference keynote appearances, discussions with customers, and even the occasional foray into writing code.

SaaS 92

SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I want to talk about that day after the event. I could be TC50 or any other high profile event. They got us invited to the Fortune CEO conference in Paris held at Versailles. I was on CNN, who taped live from the event. We headlined at the Red Herring Europe conference (they were the equivalent of TechCrunch today).

Startup 310

Startup Press Venture Capital Journal 310

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2009

I wrote recently about etiquette when you meet people at conferences or events so now that I have this done I feel I need to say some words about connecting on social networks. If you take the time to write me a small, private note on LinkedIn then I’ll add you 95% of the time.

Social Network 282

Social Network Networking Startup Writing 282

InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. Thus, I was inspired when I heard about the impact collaboration-in-the-cloud innovator Central Desktop made at the April 2012 San Francisco ad:tech conference.

Marketing 209

Marketing Conference RSS Angel 209

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2017

Based on my experience and her recommendations, here are seven relatively easy ways to take the lead in building your own brand: Offer to speak at local business or industry events. Attend networking events with investors and influencers. Every business community sponsors a plethora of these events.

Startup 55

Startup Organization Newsletter Content 55

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2010

Everyone will want you to speak at conferences. “Thank you for writing to me – it’s nice to hear from you (or meet you) via email. I do try to get to tech social events from time-to-time so I hope we can catch up there. As a startup entrepreneur you’ll have many demands for your time.

Startup 305

Startup Venture Capital Writing Conference 305

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

He has it on stage, too, at conferences. I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. This Dave knew I was running an event on “the future of television” that was important to me. My pal Dave has blogger Tourette’s. My pal Dave has problems.

Startup 309

Startup Venture Capital Email Writing 309

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

I’m going to write a pure admiration piece. He was the guy you always saw at a conference or networking event and would give you a great big hug and smile. I was at the All Things D (now Recode) conference in May 2013 when Shervin got on a microphone and asked Elon Musk to reveal his plans publicly. Not this one.

Startup 150

Startup Conference Ideas Writing 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Some people do the conference circuit too much, get involved in lots of side projects and attend every entrepreneur dinner. When I go to conference I never sit in the meeting section – I always cruise the halls meeting people. We end up out a lot at events: dinners, cocktail parties, conferences.

Venture Capital 312

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur 312

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2015

If somebody like Cookie Marenco or Phil Sugar ever pulled me aside at an event I wouldn’t know what they looked like but by name I’d immediately chat with them. I often find somebody at a conference will say “I comment on your blog from time-to-time.” I write lots of people on Twitter. Or Fake Grimlock.

Networking 150

Networking Blogging Startup Conference 150

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your school or industry. Nurture existing relationships.

Startup 75

Startup Social Network Networking Mentor 75

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2015

It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your school or industry. Nurture existing relationships.

Startup 108

Startup Social Network Mentor Entrepreneur 108

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

… It OUGHT to be really obvious how to create a proper tag for a conference, but my observation is that 98% of conferences suck at name tags. If you agree with me, please forward this post to people organizing conferences to save us all the future hassle. But we’re already AT your event. Maybe more.

Conference 291

Conference Organization Startup Writing 291

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If I have an event in the evening or am traveling for work then I can easily get through 2 days without sending any non-essential email. You’re writing a freaking blog post! I run a conference – could you speak? I never get grumpy that people write. If you do randomly write me I have advice.

Email 314

Email Product Startup Writing 314

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I attended events. As an early-stage investor that is not always aligned with my goal, which I would express as, “pay the right price for the stage & risk in a way that is fair to the founders yet preserves our ability to grow into our valuation at the next financing event.” I spent time on college campuses. I hustled.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347