socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

Santa Monica-based Tsavo , the online media company which owns Manolith, Twirlit, Kidglue, and Nibbledish, has lost its Vice President of Product and Design, Mike Macadaan. Macadaan is well known in the Los Angeles technology community for creating and running Twiistup, the popular Los Angeles technology networking and startup showcase event.

Tsavo 100

Tsavo Twiistup Santa Monica Content 100

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.

Company 290

Company Companies Technology Startup 290

SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

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. With that as a start it rarely feels burdensome. What keeps you up at night? Vince: Always On Paid Content TwiistUp DealMaker Events Digiday Events And many private events.

Startup 225

Startup Los Angeles Twiistup Social Network 225

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Suneel had a fantastic talk on focusing on your business and really digging into your company/product so that what you end up with is amazing. Visit TechZulu for full story.

Twiistup 69

Twiistup Product Company Companies 69

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Coming hot off the coat tail of earlier this year’s Startup Weekend LA where Zaarly launched, this LASW was nothing less than amazing and as someone put, one of the best tech events in LA they had ever been to. With the pitching energy escalating in the room, regular pitches began short after.

Los Angeles 73

Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2010

I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. Mark Zuckerberg seems to be me to be one of the most talented young technology professionals of his generation and seems to have an amazing vision for technology and product. The list is getting quite long.

Competition 296

Competition Entrepreneur Startup GRP Partners 296

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2011

At the same time, it offers software publishers of all sizes a uniquely efficient way to distribute their products. A licensed version of the platform will offer large software publishers, content creators and hardware manufacturers a turnkey solution to create their own private-label storefront.

Twiistup 45

Twiistup Angel Technical Review Software Review 45

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. But I thought I’d take some more time here to expand on what I think are the challenges, and opportunities, of starting a tech company in LA. Challenge #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists.

Company 111

Company Companies Rustic Canyon Startup 111

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

A few weeks ago, Rahul Sonnad --a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding and selling thePlatform to Comcast--alternately confused and dazzled attendees at Twiistup, the Los Angeles tech conference, with a fake-stilted-Indian-immigrant and ukulele-singing-and-dancing studded pitch for his firm, Geodelic (www.geodelic.com).

Clearstone 124

Clearstone Incubator HTML Twiistup 124

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Chang is looking to open up two to three more similar spaces in the next year. The existing space on Wilshire is heavily used by meetups, business networking groups, as well as local startups, and we thought we'd talk with Jerome to better understand what the whole idea is behind the space and coworking.

Startup 100

Startup Web 2.0 Userplane Tsavo 100

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.

Startup 362

Startup Twiistup Slides Screening 362

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

At the Twiistup panel last week, there was a debate over whether big companies could be created here, which is ridiculous--Demand Media is the latest example there, we've got Cornerstone OnDemand coming out soon, and there is no question there are market leading, large revenue companies coming out of Southern California. That's part one.

Redpoint 154

Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154