In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. LA CTO Forum Dealmaker Media Digital Family Reunion Startups Uncensored Social Media Club, LA Twiistup Mindshare LA LA Hadoop Meetup Dorkbot Geek Dinners LA Cloud Computing LA Web Application Developers LA PHP Developers In addition to these, I'd recommend looking at: Technology Council of Southern California – Surprised John didn't mention this one.

Twiistup 007 – Casino Royale takes place in just two weeks. This time around the conference will run for one and half days, starting in the evening at UCLA on Wednesday, January 27th and will continue at the Skirball Cultural Center on Thursday, January 28th for a full day with the mixer ending the evening. Tags: Events twiistu We have a special discount code that will give you $50 off of the ticket price but it is only good for a limited time. When When purchasing your ticket just use the code “seanshair” and the discount will be automatically applied.

Twiistup 007 – Casino Royale takes place in just two weeks. This time around the conference will run for one and half days, starting in the evening at UCLA on Wednesday, January 27th and will continue at the Skirball Cultural Center on Thursday, January 28th for a full day with the mixer ending the evening. Tags: Events twiistu We have a special discount code that will give you $50 off of the ticket price but it is only good for a limited time. When When purchasing your ticket just use the code “seanshair” and the discount will be automatically applied.

Wednesday, January 27th, 2009 Twiistup 007 Day One (evening only) – Twiistup kicks off with Leila Janah, founder and CEO of Samasource.org, followed by demos from new company “Wildcard” and a reception at Hotel Angeleno. UCLA (Korn Hall) 110 Thursday, January 28th, 2009 Twiistup 007 Conference The rain has finally stopped so it’s safe to hit the road. Time to dust off your business cards and get back into the swing of things.

Wednesday, January 27th, 2009 Twiistup 007 Day One (evening only) – Twiistup kicks off with Leila Janah, founder and CEO of Samasource.org, followed by demos from new company “Wildcard” and a reception at Hotel Angeleno. UCLA (Korn Hall) 110 Thursday, January 28th, 2009 Twiistup 007 Conference The rain has finally stopped so it’s safe to hit the road. Time to dust off your business cards and get back into the swing of things.

Alright start-ups if you were hesitant for some reason about applying for Twiistup this should give you that extra umph!  Twiistup Just announced that it has added a demo night for all showoff applicants.  Twiistup has partnered with The MEMES Center at UCLA Anderson and has added a Wildcard Demo night.  That's right just apply and you get to showoff! The evening before Twiistup any showoff applicant that is also attending Twiistup will be able to demo at UCLA on the January 27th and the winner of that night will get a chance to showoff on the main stage the next

For our Insights and Opinions section today, we have a piece from GRP Partners' Mark Suster , who--after watching and judging pitches at last week's Twiistup event--gives some hints and tips about how not to suck at presentations. This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Francisco Dao came up with Most people suck at presenting to big groups . It's a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers

In case you missed it, the organizers of the upcoming Twiistup technology showcase and conference have launched a new way to get your company to present at the event (and also, a good way for them to attract more attendees) — they just announced a “Wildcard Demo” where attendees can vote via text messaging for who they want to present on-stage. Any STARTUP attending Twiistup on a regular ticket can sign up for stage time at Wildcard Night January 27th 6:00-9:00 at UCLA. Francisco Dao writes: Wildcard Demo signups are now open.

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA.  Francisco Francisco Dao came up with the idea of letting 10 companies that weren’t selected for Twiistup to do a presentation the night before to a group of people and let the audience pick one company to win the final slot at Twiistup.  I Also, asking is not appropriate at a marquee conferences like TechCrunch50, DEMO, Twiistup and the like. Most people suck at presenting to big groups.  It’s It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences

Today at 3pm PST is the final time for you to grab your Twiistup tickets at the $397 rate .  After Twiistup 007 Agenda Wednesday January 27th Korn Hall UCLA 30 – Midnight: Twiistup 007 – Casino Royale Party After 3pm it will jump to the $497 rate.  They They have also released their final agenda shown below: