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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. Quilici is also a member of the board of directors of NeoEdge Networks and a member of Tech Coast Angels. Twiistup is just 2 weeks away and there have been a whole slew of announcements within these past few days.  The The final showoff's have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10

Here’s it seems like–despite of, or perhaps because of our proximity to the celebrity center of Hollywood–the people I hear most as idols in the high tech industry are way more subdued and under the radar. In fact, even though most folks in high tech here (given the carpet bombing coverage of Silicon Valley companies) know the tech celebrities of Silicon Valley, only the “in-the-know” folks seem to be aware of the huge successes here. I’m sure everyone’s seen Intel’s big advertising push “ Our rock stars aren’t your rock stars “–comparing the firm’s technologists to celebrity rock stars.