Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

Twiistup 6 has come to an end. Out is the “cocktail only&# Twiistup and in is the new format of a conference that should take its rightful place on the national technology calendar. I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.

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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. Before launching his own publishing venture, Om was a senior writer for Business 2.0 He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures. Twist And Shout for Twiistup 5. gigaom.com. .

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

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. Twiistup 007 Showoff's: . Rick Heitzmann.

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socalTECH

MARCH 23, 2011

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. Here it seems that entrepreneurs are coming out of business school, transitioning from corporate life, or hail from the entertainment industry. He gave us permission to reprint it in our Insights and Opinions section.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2010

Many of us in the technology, media and VC world sit on panels at lot. photo from left to right: me, QD3, Brian Solis, Chamillionaire, Ian Rogers and Brian Zisk – most of whom I got to know through Twiistup panels). Entertain – It is also your job to entertain! I’m a venture capitalist.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. Here it seems that entrepreneurs are coming out of business school, transitioning from corporate life, or hail from the entertainment industry. Whereas in Silicon Valley, you can have a V.1 That’s typically not the case in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them.

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