Twiistup 007: Final Showoff’s Additional Speakers and TZ Discount
Twiistup is just 2 weeks away and there have been a whole slew of announcements within these past few days. The final showoff’s have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10 showoff’s plus a wild card from the demo night at UCLA (full list of showoff’s below). The speaker list just keeps on growing with some amazing talent (full speaker list below). And now what you have all been waiting for…the TechZulu Twiistup discount. Before checkout just enter in the promo code: “TechZulu” and you will receive a $50 discount from your ticket!! You folks are just that awesome that we try and hook our readers up whenever we can so you are Welcome!
Twiistup 007 Speaker List:
Peter Guber
Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, the visionary multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, sports, and new media, Peter Guber is among the most successful executives in the entertainment and communications industries. Films he personally produced or executive produced, including “Rain Man,” “Batman,” “The Color Purple,” “Midnight Express,” “Gorillas In The Mist,” “The Witches of Eastwick,” “Missing,” and “Flashdance,” have earned more than three billion dollars worldwide and garnered more than fifty Academy Award nominations.
Richard Rosenblatt
As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies.
Eric Ries
Eric Ries is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the lean startup methodology. He is a frequent public speaker. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming(Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.
Bambi Francisco
Bambi Francisco is founder and CEO of Vator.tv, a leading platform for entrepreneurs and innovators to broadcast and communicate with industry professionals, and VatorNews, a video business network. Prior to Vator, Bambi was an award-winning columnist and correspondent at Dow Jones MarketWatch, where she had 400,000 subscribers to her newsletter. She was a morning business anchor for KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco and made frequent appearances as an expert on Internet investments and trends on CNBC, Fox Business News, and CBS.
Leila Chirayath Janah
Leila first developed the idea behind Samasource while working as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.), where her clients included global leaders in the outsourcing and telecom sectors and a number of prominent non-profits. Along with Professors Thomas Pogge and Aidan Hollis, she founded Incentives for Global Health and helped produce a plan for incentivizing the development of new drugs for neglected diseases. As an undergradudate, Leila authored background papers for the World Bank’s Development Research Group and Ashoka on equity and social rights. Leila is a recipient of the Rainer Arnhold and TEDIndia Fellowships, and serves on the San Francisco board of the Social Enterprise Institute.
Dave McClure
Dave McClure is a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur, startup investor, and blogger. He currently works for Founders Fund and coordinates FF Angel LLC, a seed-stage investment program; as well as fbFund REV, a micro-seed incubator program for Facebook-related startups.
Dave is an investor in over 30 startup companies including: Mint (acquired by Intuit), SlideShare, Twilio, Credit Karma, UserVoice, Bit.ly, CrowdFlower, KissMetrics, TeachStreet, RichRelevance, Mashery, and Simply Hired, among many others.
Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble is a blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft.
Brian Solis
Brian Solis is globally recognized as one of most prominent thought leaders in new media. A digital analyst, sociologist, and futurist, Solis has influenced the effects of emerging media on the convergence of marketing, communications, and publishing. He is principal of FutureWorks, an award-winning New Media agency in Silicon Valley, and has led interactive and social programs for Fortune 500 companies, notable celebrities, and Web 2.0 startups. BrianSolis.com is ranked among the top of world’s leading business and marketing online resources.
Alex Quilici
Alex Quilici was the co-founder of voice-portal company Quack.com (acquired by AOL), and is currently CEO of YouMail. Quilici is also a member of the board of directors of NeoEdge Networks and a member of Tech Coast Angels. Quilici received a PhD in computer science from UCLA, and from 1991-1999 was a faculty member at the University of Hawaii.
Om Malik
Founder and senior writer for GigaOm. Before launching his own publishing venture, Om was a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine covering telecom and broadband stories. He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures.
Paul Grahm
Essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. In 2002 he described a simple statistical spam filter that inspired a new generation of filters. He’s currently working on a new programming language called Arc, a new book on startups, and is one of the partners in Y Combinator.
Lisa Stone
Co-founder and CEO of BlogHer the leading participatory news, entertainment and information network for women online, reaching more than 15 million women each month via annual conferences, a Web hub, and an publishing network of more than 2,500 qualified, contextually targeted blog affiliates
Rick Heitzmann
Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, a $2 billion VC fund focusing on investments in the emerging media & advertising and data & analytics sectors. Prior to founding FirstMark Capital, Rick was a Partner with Pequot Ventures. Rick led Pequot’s investments in StubHub (Acquired by eBay), First Advantage (NASDAQ: FADV) and US Search. Rick has led and sits on the board of 4 FirstMark portfolio companies, including Clickable, Weplay, Live Gamer and Riot Games.
Twiistup 007 Showoff’s:
Collecta is a real-time search engine bringing content to you as its posted
The Geodelic network introduces discovery, replacing the need to search for information. Launch the iPhone/Android app and the location carousel automatically aggregates locations and information around you, based on distance, relevance and interest.
Lunch is a community based on finding your common ground with other people in order to help make the world more tolerant and thoughtful. At Lunch, you share and discover genuinely useful information and ideas. This connects you to people with common interests while also uncovering your common ground with people who may seem to be your total opposite.
Your SocialCRM. Stop wasting the great contacts you make every day.
nsyght is a real time service that pull in events and posts that and your friends make on all the social services that you use. Additionally, you can chose to post cool stuff from here, reply to things you find on other services, and of course forward groovy stuff that you find to your friends.
NutshellMail takes copies of all your latest updates in your social networking and email accounts and places them in a snapshot email. The NutshellMail Update is then sent to your primary email address on your schedule.
Qlipso is a new tool that enables you to share Flash-based content live with your friends while simultaneously interacting with them.
Ranker is an easy, fun and social way to rank anything. By hooking up our 5 million+ item database to a drag and drop interface, we make it easy for you to create complex lists with lots of data without wasting your time or causing carpal tunnel.
Rippol is a personalized, social video discovery engine based on The Butterfly Effect network – a system of algorithms invented by Team Rippol to help you find videos you like.
YourVersion continuously discovers new and personally relevant web content based on your interests, and lets you easily bookmark and share your discoveries with friends.
