David Cohen is the founder and CEO of TechStars, a mentorship-driven seed stage investment program for Internet startups. David opened up Twiistup 8 with a great talk on building an entrepreneurial community, and how you could start your own in whatever city you may be located.
At Twiistup 8 last week ten startups gave their pitches to a panel including a VC, Angel Investor, Advisor and industry expert. No startup recieved harsher criticism than Badgeville.
John Delacruz and his startup Foodme.com presented a Twiistup 8 and was almost as impressive as the mini cupcakes at their booth. The startup fills a need in the market by connecting restaurants to patrons in real time.
It’s time for round two for Gov 2.0 LA. For those of you who may not be unfamiliar with Gov 2.0 LA, it is a hybrid conference that stimulates the brain and position people to have actual time to talk to each other. bridging digital diplomacy, social media, entrepreneurship, mobile and mapping and reaching into the crossover into citizen engagement tools.
In the final installment of the never before seen HQ.0 episodes we present local Southern California company Stickam.com. Created in 2005, Stickam is the pioneer of the live interactive video streaming space.
We first caught sight of this beauty at CES 2011 and Motorola lips were sealed on the date of which ATRIX would be available for purchase or even a give us a price.
It is contest time! The folks at ZooGue gave us one of their Case Genius V2’s to giveaway. Why do you want one of these cases? Only because it is the most functional iPad case on the market.
The average video on a website has a half-life of six days. This means that 50% of the videos lifetime views will happen in that time frame. After twenty one days over 75% of views will occur. As content creators, these statistics are daunting. The content of a video can in many instances provide amazing sound bytes and SEO friendly lines that unfortunately never get tracked.
About a week ago I put the word out about possibly resurrecting an old project TechZulu was working on when we first started the site. Pointing to the one and only published HQ.0, a lot of our fans and readers were excited about it and suggested that they would be interested in something like this.
The question, why can’t you replicate this for e-commerce sites? This is the fundamental problem Curebit.com is trying to solve. Create conversations about products you love and get rewarded. This will increase traffic and revenue for the underlying e-commerce site.
