However, there's a Facebook group, a few presenter companies, that you can look through. I've never been able to walk into a large group of people and feel like I can "work the room." Sure, I've read various articles on this stuff, but honestly, I still struggle with meeting interesting people. I seem to be very adept at meeting financial planners, attorneys, accountants, etc. -

My main points were: Social Everywhere - I work with a lot of different shapes and sizes of companies and it's interesting how each one has opportunities to leverage its users to form different kinds of communities, create connections, encourage contribution, etc. Last Saturday, I was a panelist at the CalTech - Social Networks event. It was a really good event with lots of interesting folks in attendance.

What would you do if you built a tremendously successful internet company and sold it? interviewed Ryan Scott to find out what he did after he sold Netcreations, the email list management company that he co-founded. (Curious think there are two kinds of entrepreneurs: The “wannabes,” who try to build companies so they never have to work again. I Curious about how Netcreations was built?

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ve spent the last year running a tech company based in Santa Monica , CA and I’ve spent countless weeks in the Bay meeting with hundreds of tech founders. Is there a difference between tech startups in Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles? Most emphatically, Yes !

She said that reporters don’t care about your company nearly as much as they care about trends. So when you want publicity, pitch a trend that includes your company. I’m sick of the usual interviews with Tim Ferriss , which waste time arguing over whether it’s possible to work four hours a week. What I want to know is how Tim got so many people to talk about him and his book, The Four Hour Work Week , and how he made his book into a New York Times Best Seller.

It was CardioNet , which is a great company Jim Sweeney started/runs down in San Diego (and participated in OCTANe's CA Medical Device Forum in 2006) at the intersection of health care and wireless data. (Congrats, The total number of IPOs is six for 2008 per the article and no "tech ones" since Valentine's Day? Is an IPO not a real relevant I was reading the daily Venture Wire blurb last Friday. Usually these are "quick reads" and sort of a mix between a story in the LA Times and Food and Wine, but the content in this one was particularly fascinating and alarming at

Matt Mickiewicz of SitePoint told me that’s how his company starting making money. Rosalind Resnick told me in her interview that affiliate relationships helped her grow from a small home business to a successful, publicly-traded company. (Can’t see video? Try it on YouTube.)

Or what if you work for a company that doesn’t see the value in buying you a ticket? When Timothy Ferriss came on Mixergy , he said meeting bloggers in person at conferences helped make his book a New York Times Best Seller. When Craig heard that, he brought up a good point. What if you’re a startup and can’t pay for a ticket?

I think Guy Kawasaki felt I was being a jerk when I pressed him about whether he was following the advice in his own book, Reality Check , at his new company Alltop . He says most companies might have have thought, “we know better,” and turned those passionate users away. But Guy is amazingly open and he really does live the ideas in his book. To help you use the ideas in Reality Check to build your startups, I’ll show you how Alltop uses them.