StartupSD

The biggest surprise of the SDTweetUp was the turnout. Expecting about 30-35 attendees, organizer Jenn Van Grove welcome nearly double the amount of people she was expecting at one of the best social events of the year to hit San Diego.
Approximately 75 people attended the event at Oggi’s in Mission Valley. Food and refreshments were [...]

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Tech Coast Angels is hosting their 8th annual Fast Pitch Competition on May 19 in Anaheim. The Fast Pitch Competition will consist of 14 entrepreneurs who will give 60-second pitches to a panel of investors. Each pitch is judged for the quality of the presentation and its investment potential, and three winners will be selected.
The [...]

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The most recent Web Design Meetup discussed the topic of Content Management Systems. Anita Cohen-Williams of MySearchGuru, a San Diego SEO, social media, and blogging fixture, as well as the group’s organizer, conceded leadership to Larry Truett of FluffyCat.com, for the evening.
The main Content Management Systems discussed were Drupal, Joomla!, and WordPress. All are [...]

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Gary Vaynerchuck is interested in extending his book tour to San Diego and he needs our help! Gary (@GaryVee) is the host of Wine Library TV, and a pinnacle member of the social media community.
First and foremost, we are looking for San Diego bookstores or wine retailers (e.g., The Wine Bank or BevMo) that are [...]

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Got plans this weekend? Reschedule! BarCamp San Diego 3 is this weekend and it promises to be absolutely groundbreaking.
The venue is twice as big, the contests are twice as big and people from the BarCampLA scene are arranging train-rides and carpooling to come to this event.
We’re planning on having a healthier selection of snacks and [...]

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Big Keynote News
I recently spoke with Rick Calvert, Founder of Blog World and New Media Expo, who shared with me that they have selected Gary Vaynerchuck of Wine Library TV to keynote this year’s expo. Vaynerchuck’s keynote will consist of a standard talk followed by a live taping of an episode for Wine Library TV.
Calvert [...]

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We got an interesting event submitted to us from local Technomad, Colin Leath. He is definitely up to something unique and I can only assume that he sent the email from his campsite in the woods based on the following description from this blog:
“I’m working on getting rid of possessions I cannot carry and [...]

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Last August, I was designing a website for a client and wanted to pull my hair out when a problem would arise and I couldn’t find a quick solution for it. “Why does this work in Firefox, but not IE?” or “How do I style a menu using CSS to look the way I want [...]

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I attended a new CommNexus special interest group (SIG) called WebMo2.0 last Friday. The event featured a panel to discuss mobile technologies and the convergence of the online web services network with mobile networks. It also explored the effect that the growing mobile industry will have on your social graph, as well as provider revenue [...]

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Most of us have been to tech events and have thought at one time or another “Damn, I missed networking or communication opportunities”. Or perhaps “Aw, I wish I could have heard about where party X was, or where everyone was going after talk Y.” Maintaining some degree of awareness regarding where the crowd is [...]

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