Andy Oliver has 15 years experience in communications and marketing consultancy for technology and Internet companies. In 1998 he founded the US operations of the global public relations agency LEWIS PR Inc. He is actively involved in the Southern California technology community and is currently focused on helping promote numerous Los Angeles-based Web 2.0 start-ups.
Join Dealmaker LA tonight at MTV Networks in Santa Monica as they host over 300 leading tech startups, founders, developers, investors, and leading industry executives for an exciting night of networking and mingling.
The entire Twiistup crew will be on hand if you’d like to talk about where we’re at in our Showoff submission process or sponsorship opportunities. Beyond the business, it is Cinco de Mayo so some fun is definitely in order.
Here are a few special guests scheduled to attend:
• Debbie Landa, CEO Dealmaker Media
• William Quigley, Managing Director, Clearstone Venture Partners
• Jeff Yapp, EVP MTV Networks
• Hale Boggs, Partner Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
• Peter Pham, CEO, BillShrink
• Mike Jones, SVP, Userplane/AOL
• Mark Suster, Partner GRP Partners
• Dana Settle, Partner Greycroft Partners
• Nicole Jordan, PR/Marketing, Clearstone Venture Partners & Rubicon Project
• Tim Chang, Principal Norwest Ventures
• Brian Solis, Founder & President FutureWorks PR
• William Quigley, Managing Director, Clearstone Venture Partners
Registration is closed but Debbie tells me that there’s still room, just show up at the door and register there. Show up early before it sells out.
• Parking available in Garage at 2700 Colorado Ave
• Entrance to the event is at 2700 Colorado Ave.
• Tonight (May 5, 2008) 6p to 9p
• More info: http://dealmakermedia.com/la.html
Rubicon Project was voted ‘Best in Show’ at Twiistup 3 by our attendees. Naturally we felt that the Founder of the winning company should help us determine the next group of Showoffs. Hence our 3rd member of the Showoff Selection Panel, Frank Addante, Founder/CEO of the Rubicon Project. We’re psyched to have Frank and all of his startup experience on board with us for Twiistup 4.
Frank has a successful entrepreneurial track record. the Rubicon Project is Frank’s 6th company. Before the age of 30, Frank started 5 companies, resulting in 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure (we call that one “a learning experience”) and his last venture, StrongMail Systems. Frank was the Founding CEO of StrongMail Systems, the leading email delivery infrastructure provider for thousands of companies worldwide including: Fox Sports/MSN, Ticketmaster, Williams Sonoma, FTD, and MySpace.com. Addante led StrongMail from inception, to an initial cash-flow positive business, to market leader in less than 4 years, raising over $30 million in venture capital from top-tier investors including Sequoia Capital.
Did we mention that Addante was formerly Chief Technology Officer and technology Founder of L90, Inc., a publicly-held Internet advertising company? Frank was actively involved in sales, marketing and corporate development efforts leading to a $112 million IPO led by SG Cowen. He invented adMonitor™, one of the Internet’s most successful advertising platforms for the Global 2000. adMonitor delivered over 8 billion ad transactions per month for over 3,000 customers and reached 65% of the worldwide Internet population. L90 reached a market cap of $500 million and adMonitor was later acquired by DoubleClick™.
Shortly after L90’s IPO, Frank left and founded Zondigo, a wireless and voice software company partnered with Intel. As an early pioneer of the Internet, Addante developed Starting Point, a search engine portal that became the 7th most popular Internet site from 1995-1997 and was acquired by CMGI/YesMail.com.
If you’re into awards and that kind of jazz, Frank was an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, nominated for Inc. Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year and has been quoted in publications such as Forbes, Fortune, New York Times, BusinessWeek and the Wall Street Journal. He serves on various boards of innovative technology and marketing companies and received his education in electrical and computer engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Related:
Krisztina “Z” Holly on Showoff Selection Panel
Pete Cashmore of Mashable on Showoff Selection Panel
Docstoc raises a 2nd round of capital lead by Rustic Canyon Partners. The community driven site allows visitors to find and share professional documents, ie, legal, business, tech and educational docs. ”Docstoc will be the one stop destination to find any document you need for any reason, and we will continue to build technology that integrates with other websites and companies, to enable the sharing and promotion of valuable content all across the web,” said Jason Nazar, CEO and co-founder of Docstoc.
Docstoc is currently adding to its full-time staff in Beverly Hills, and hiring .NET and Flex developers as well as looking for candidates with strong backgrounds in marketing and business development from consumer facing web 2.0 brands. Check out: docstoc.com/jobs
Join Dealmaker LA on May 5, 2008 at MTV Networks in Santa Monica as we host over 300 leading tech startups, founders, developers, investors, and leading industry executives for an exciting night of networking and mingling.
What: Dealmaker LA
When: May 5, 2008 | 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Where: Hosted by MTV2600 Colorado Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90404
Note: Parking available in Garage at 2700 Colorado Ave. / Entrance to the event is at 2700 Colorado Ave.
Check out this promotion that was based in a restroom in Germany. Moments after you enter this room the lights go out and the black light takes over. While in black light mode a bloody crime scene is revealed with the line ‘See what others don’t see. 13 STREET. The Action and Suspense Channel.’ This of course referring to exclusive shows on the 13th Street channel. Nicely done!
Check out this sweet pixel couch by Cristian Zuzunaga. He’s a graduate of Royal College of Art and now his concept will be sold through Moroso. Aside from the obvious geek appeal it also has the rare anti-stain feature often overlooked by furniture designers. We’re ordering a few for Twiistup HQ office in Finland.
Krisztina “Z” Holly is vice provost for innovation at the University of Southern California and executive director for the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, where she spearheads the development of programs and approaches to help faculty and students bring innovations to society and develop their skills as innovators.
Raised in Los Angeles, Holly headed east to Boston more than twenty years ago to earn her master’s and bachelor’s degrees at MIT in mechanical engineering. In 2005, USC recruited Krisztina back to Los Angeles to lead USC Stevens, a university-wide institute in the office of the Provost, designed to harness the creative thinking and imaginative work at the University of Southern California’s college, 17 professional schools, and research programs to build a multidisciplinary approach to innovation.
Holly brings to USC her experience as an engineer, serial entrepreneur, and founding executive director of MIT’s Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, where she oversaw the distribution of $5 million in grants, engaged more than 250 faculty and students, and spawned nine startup companies that successfully raised $40 million in capital. Holly is an avid surfer, mountain biker, and backcountry skier, and loves the diversity, food, and creative culture in Los Angeles.
Related: Pete Cashmore of Mashable on Showoff Selection Panel
