Tags: Events 2010 sxsw texa SXSW’s film and music pedigrees (begun as a music festival in 87, later adding film and “interactive” portions) make it the sexiest geek conference of the year. In four months, the entire city of San Francisco will travel to Austin to hang out with their friends from LA, New York, and that world so horribly nicknamed “flyover country.”

So let’s help ease the transition by getting your mind of the job and instead thinking about all the great tech events in January where you can meet attractive women. We plan to both attend and cover this event. Professionals making a positive impact at the nationwide Media Leaders event. Today is probably the first day back to work for many of you. Crunchies – January 8th – San Francisco

only got to see Jason Calacanis, Lon Harris and Mark Jeffries – all people I really wanted to see – because I knew they would all be at the TWiST event, and I completely missed C.K. Tags: Events News sxs The cool kids have been telling me about it for years, and this year I finally did it – I made it to Austin for SXSW Interactive. The panels were as informative as I’d heard, the parties were even crazier, and boy, what a good-looking and intelligent bunch attend – especially that Sean Percival! (Sean,

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So I just want to confirm with you that you want me to stay the full two weeks ( a “presumptive close” (which makes it sound like, “of course this is the normal sequence of events. File this under entrepreneurial advice I know that this will sound like a random post topic for startup advice but I promise it’s relevant.

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA.  Francisco Before the event I wanted to find out what I could about the students.  I My choices – talk about the VC industry and where it is heading (which is what the dean asked me to cover), talk about how to start companies (which is partly what Lada Rasochova , the director of the entrepreneurship program asked me to cover), talk about how to get into VC (which a few students asked me to cover) or give Most people suck at presenting to big groups.  It’s It’s a shame because the ability

Tags: Events foursquare pranks sxs Location based service Foursquare is a revolutionary product that allows you to broadcast your whereabouts at any given time. It’s also a great tool for stalking your friends. Of course many SXSW attendees this year were happy to broadcast every spot they visited, even their hotel location.

Tags: Events News Video SXSW really is a unique experience. Where else can so many of us geeks justify our existence and relevancy? Look here are 15,000 weirdos just like me! For others it’s just a great place to get tanked and finally score that hot PR girl you’ve been flirting with on Twitter with for LIKE EVER.

Apple press events are to say the least, legendary. The legend continues once again now that Apple has finally confirmed a January 27th event by sending out the official press invitations this week . The ultimate culmination of black turtlenecks, geeks and gadget lust. The iPods, the iPhones, the classic line “One more thing”, it’s all so magical.

Additional value outside of legal documents – Most lawyers who work with early stage startups secretly want to be entrepreneurs but they earn too much money to quit – the golden handcuffs   I’ve found that the best of them think like entrepreneurs, though, and hang out at startup events.  They’ll invite you out to events in which you’ll meet their other clients, you can get to know them socially and hopefully develop a real mentorship relationship where every conversation is not on the clock. I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers ” written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ).