We have received notice that the much celebrated Twiistup brand is changing hands. Conference founder Mike Macadaan (disclosure: a colleague) started Twiistup and quickly turned it into THE Los Angeles tech event. few years ago I attended my first Twiistup, it was a very small and intimate event. One of the worst keep secrets in Los Angeles tech is finally ready for public viewing. A

Twiistup 6 is right around the corner and most of the showoffs have been picked. You can create a forum that will help you quickly start engaging your customers and help move your product forward. Tags: Articles twiistu We thought you might want to get to know some of the companies that made the cut before the big event. If you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, they are still available here .

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. Twiistup – January 28th – Los Angeles The entrepeneur showcase that is Twiistup returns once again. ...Tags: Today is probably the first day back to work for many of you. Crunchies – January 8th – San Francisco

Twiistup 6 took place last week and this time around, under new management, the event went through a few changes. This part of Twiistup was entirely new, previously the showoffs only had the ability to connect with the attendees at their booths.  Each Hanging out in the back lounge, I ran into the Co-founder of the Twiistup 5 fan favorite, Michael Broukhim, from Totspot. Instead of a one evening mixer that highlighted the showoffs and gave people a chance to mingle and get to know the companies, it was expanded to a two day conference with panels, and plenty of time for mingling.

Los Angeles-based ExpenseBay scored the top award--a Lego trophy--at last week's Twiistup startup showcase event, rising above 11 other startups looking to strut their stuff to investors, angel investors, entrepreneurs, and others at the Universal Hilton on Thursday and Friday. The firm--which was selected by a panel of judges--develops Web 2.0-style software which helps business travelers to automatically fill out and submit expense report forms. ExpenseBay was founded by Eric Sikola. ...Tags: Tags: expensebay twiistup contes

Rubicon wants to send two lucky students to Twiistup! Nicole Jordan , Director of Integrated Communications for Rubicon, loves helping others and decided to create two Twiistup “scholarships” for budding entrepreneurs to be able to attend the one of a kind event. Twiistup offers two days of panels, Q&A sessions, start up pitches and a mixer that these lucky grad or undergrad students will get to be a part of. The idea behind the scholarship, is to give young college students the chance to connect with the leaders in the Business community. They

They really need to take a look at how Twiistup , Mixergy and others are doing to both promote and help make their events better for attendees. A while ago I posted about Secret for Networking at Events - Prenetworking where I recommended that people should look at who's attending the event prior to going to the event in order to make their networking more effective. I've received a lot of positive feedback on the post.

I want to take you through a bit of what brought me here, because I think it will help explain what I mean by visible networking. Networking Events – Questionable Return on Your Time Last week I posted about Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California and received back some interesting comments, some of the best from a LinkedIn Group. Mark mentioned Twiistup and VentureNet , but generally the room felt that it was hit and miss with all events. And when you think about the return on your time, it becomes even more discouraging. This past week has had an interesting confluence of events that's led me to conclude that I want to start doing a lot of visible networking among the tech / web crowd here in Los Angeles.

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. Twiistup – January 28th – Los Angeles The entrepeneur showcase that is Twiistup returns once again. ...Tags: Today is probably the first day back to work for many of you. Crunchies – January 8th – San Francisco

you need at least scan through the program at Twiistup , LA’s biggest and most influential Web event.   Events like these help you get a feel for the climate and energy of the community you live in.  If 00 – MIDNIGHT The Twiistup Evening Open Bar party 80s Tech Prom If you work in a web business (hint: you do even if you don’t think so!), If you are a student at any level, and interested in building a startup of your own, I would highly recommend attending (too bad there isn’t a student discount though).