Where Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs come to find the Next Big Thing

Where Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs come to find the Next Big Thing

More than just a conference, Twiistup is LA’s biggest technology EVENT. Twiistup combines a showcase for innovation, a platform for thought leaders and an audience of entrepreneurs, media and investors all wrapped in a unique, stylized environment that rivals a Hollywood production.

The Program

  1. Demos from 10 startups showing off the hottest new technology
  2. Sessions from some of the biggest names in technology and media
  3. An exclusive themed after party so you can meet other entrepreneurs and attendees

What are people saying about Twiistup?

We launched ExpenseBay in July at Twiistup 6 … As a direct result of people we met at Twiistup 6 we’ve had investment interest from multiple sources and made the cover story of ReadWriteWeb.

—Eric Sikola CEO/Founder ExpenseBay
www.expensebay.com

Twiistup is the gift that keeps on giving. Being able to say that we showed off at Twiistup has given us the credibility to recruit a rock star CEO and consistently gets us into customer meetings that would never have happened otherwise. And they throw one heck of a party.

—William W. Chow Founder, Mobophiles
www.mobolize.com/

Wildcard Demo Night Added January 27th

BIG NEWS!   ALL Twiistup Showoff applicants will now have the opportunity to demo.  We’ve partnered with The MEMES center at UCLA Anderson and added a Wildcard Demo night the evening before Twiistup.  Any Showoff applicant that is also attending Twiistup will have the opportunity to demo on the 27th and the winner of Wildcard night at UCLA will get a spot on stage at Twiistup the next day.

Details and slot sign ups for Wildcard Demo night coming soon.  Wildcard demo slots will be open to all Showoff applicants attending Twiistup based on available space.

Remember FINAL Deadline for Showoff applications is Friday. APPLY HERE

First Speakers Announced and Early Bird Tickets on Sale

First Speakers for Twiistup 007 just announced! Paul Graham of Y-Combinator, Om Malik of GigaOm, Lisa Stone CEO of BlogHer, Rick Heitzmann of FirstMark Capital and many more to be confirmed shortly. Tickets on sale Monday November 16th

Announcing Twiistup 007 January 28, 2010

Twiistup 007 will be held January 28th, 2010 at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles. 

Showoff Applications are now open. 

Showoffs will be selected in two rounds with preferential consideration given to round one applicants. Round one closes Friday November 13th at 11:59 PM. Round two closes Friday December 11th.

NOTE: Only Showoff Winners will receive complimentary admission to the event. 

Each showoff selection will receive:
• A Showoff table, power and wifi during exhibit hours
• Stage time for presentation and Q&A Session
• One full event pass
• Your logo on Twiistup.com and other event promotions
• A free MarketWire press release and access to event Press

NOTE: Showoff companies will be required to attend a free pitch rehearsal prior to the event. We will make reasonable accommodations for companies traveling from out of the area. 

Showoff winners will be chosen by:
• Jeff Cohn – venture consultant to MHS Capital focused on: online marketing services, mobile and software infrastructure.
• Rick Smith – co-founder of Crosscut Ventures, a Los Angeles-based seed stage venture capital firm.
• Jim Andelman – co-founder and general partner at Rincon Venture Partners 
• Mark Suster – GRP Partners, venture capital. Former VP Product Mgmt Salesforce.com & 2-time CEO and entrepreneur 
• Hamet Watt – CEO of WV Labs and Entrepreneur in Residence at True Ventures 
• Francisco Dao – Producer of Twiistup

 

Local Twiistup Showoffs LIVE on Stickam

Twiistup Showoffs local to the Los Angeles area were invited to the Stickam HQ for a live broadcast Monday night. Participants include Eric Sikola and Dan Fritcher from ExpenseBay, Eric Hung and David Fan from Educator.com, Miles Beckett from EQAL, creator of LonelyGirl16, Don from Streamy.com, Babette Pepaj from BakeSpace.com, and William Chow from Mobophiles.com

Meet them all July 30-31 at Twiistup 6!

48 Hours to Twiistup – Where will you be?

Twiistup opens in 48 hours and just about everyone who’s anyone in Tech and Digital Media will be there. Will you? If you can’t make the Full program, come out for the 80s Tech Prom evening mixer with an OPEN BAR, Atari game room and our Prom photo booth. You’ve seen the people coming can you afford to miss it? This all opens Thursday morning, so get your tickets while you can.

101 PEOPLE YOU’LL MEET AT TWIISTUP

Wondering who’s coming? Here’s just a sample. These are CONFIRMED Attendees with hundreds more…this is not just an invite wish list.  These people will be at Twiistup, will you?

1. Saeed Amidi, CEO of Plug n Play, Investor, Co-founder of Amidzad Partners

2. Wil Schroter, CEO of Go BIG Network, serial entrepreneur

3. Rick Calvert, Founder of Blogworld

4. Dinesh Ravishanker, CEO of CallFire

5. Isaac Garcia, CEO of CentralDesktop

6. Sanjay Sabnani, Chairman and CEO of CrowdGather

7. Dimitry Ioffe, Co-founder and CEO of The Visionaire Group

8. Mike Walsh, Founder and CEO Leverage Software

9. Cyan Banister, CEO of Zivity, investor Facebook, Slide etc.

10. Merav Knafo, Founder of iJoomla

11. Adam Zbar, CEO of Zannel

12. Marc Mertes, CEO of Seso.net

13. Jeff Haas, Co-founder of Ringorang

14. Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo

15. Tom Dare, COO of Tsavo

16. Brian Solis, Author, Founder of Future Works

17. J.R. Johnson, CEO of Lunch.com

18. Adam Bernhard, CEO of Hautelook

19. Andy Sack, General Partner/Angel Investor Founders Co-op

20. Scott Sangster, Investor/President of Organic Startup

21. James Montgomery, CEO of Montgomery & co. CEO of Digital Coast Ventures

22. Vince Thompson, Managing Partner at MiddleShift

23. Afsoun Yazdian, CEO of Gogolingo

24. Brooke Burke, Television Personality, co-CEO of ModernMom

25. Brian Deagon, Investor’s Business Daily (Media)

26. Umair Mufti, Founder and CEO of Sparcq

27. Christian Gammill, co-Founder of The Graph

28. Brad Feld, Founder of Mobius Venture Capital

29. Scott Seward, President of Tuesday Creative

30. Alec Shankman, Head of Reality at Abrams Artists

31. Chamillionaire, Grammy Award winning Musician

32. Ian Rogers, CEO of Topspin Media

33. Ben Huh, CEO of ICanHasCheezburger

34. Michelle Robbins, Director of Technology, Third Door Media

35. James Andelman, General Partner, Rincon Venture Capital

36. Dave McClure, Investor The Founders Fund

37. Chris Redlitz, Partner Transmedia Capital (VC)

38. Lee Fox, Founder of KooDooz.com

39. Steve Beauregard, Managing Partner at Regard Ventures

40. Eric Sikola, CEO of Expensebay

41. Charles Proctor, Los Angeles Business Journal (Media)

42. Robby Berthume, President Epsilon Concepts/ LA Digital Directory

43. Stuart Halperin, CEO of Ultimate Movie Site

44. Quincy Jones III (QD3) Music Producer, Entrepreneur

45. Chris Tolles, CEO of Topix

46. Jason Nazar, CEO of DocStoc

47. Adam Weinroth, VP of Strategic Marketing at Demand Media

48. Firas Bushnaq, CEO of Boxador

49. Sheila Marmon, CEO of UrbanAdserve

50. Don Mosites, CEO of Streamy

51. Justin Kan, Founder of Justin.tv

52. Chris Brogan, President of New Marketing Labs

53. Eric Hung, CEO of Educator

54. Michael Schneider, CEO of MobileRoadie

55. Paige Craig, Angel Investor, Founder of the Lincoln Group

56. John Morris, Partner GKM Ventures

57. Krisztina Holly, Vice Provost for Innovation at USC

58. Nick Braun, Partner NCT Ventures

59. Brett Butterfield, CEO of PixelPipe

60. Mark Suster, Partner GRP Partners (VC)

61. Jennifer Van Grove, writer for Mashable (media)

62. Jolie O’Dell, writer for ReadWriteWeb (media)

63. Dmitry Shapiro, Founder and CEO of VEOH

64. Lisa Rosenblatt, Co-founder of iMall, co-CEO of ModernMom

65. Beau Laskey, Managing Director of Steamboat Ventures

66. Babette Pepaj, Founder and CEO of BakeSpace

67. Jeff Yasuda, Founder and CEO of Blip.FM

68. Andy Liu, co-Founder of Buddy.TV

69. Trey Shelton, CEO of Music Interactive

70. Mohamed Alkady, CEO of After 10 Studios

71. Mike Prasad, CEO of GirlGamer

72. John Trickett, President of Immergent

73. Taryn Southern, Producer, TV host

74. Andrew Lee, CEO of JamLegend

75. Ben Kuo, Founder and Editor of SoCalTECH

76. Marty Poulin, CEO of ShadyLogic

77. Rob Angarita, co-Founder of Cramster

78. David O. Sacks, CEO of Geni and Yammer

79. Mike Macadaan, VP of Product at MySpace

80. Will Chow, CEO of Mobophiles

81. Jodee Rich, CEO of PeopleBrowsr

82. Richard White, Founder and CEO of Uservoice

83. Micah Baldwin, VP of Business Development, Lijit Networks

84. Neil Patel, Angel Investor, co-founder of CrazyEgg and KissMetrics

85. Brandon DiMassa, VP Digital Media Syndication, TVGuide

86. Efren Toscano, CEO of TechZulu (media)

87. Marsha Collier, Host of Computer and Technology Radio KTRB (media)

88. Erin Broadley, LA Weekly (media)

89. Dave Waldman, VP or Business Development for Twistbox

90. David Holifield, President of Interfuel

91. Ed Haslam, CEO of Diddit

92. Rich Rotzang, Founder of SocialToddler

93. Mark Gibbs, writer Network World (media)

94. Mark Yawitz, co-Founder RealityWanted

95. Hiten Shah, co-Founder CrazyEgg and KissMetrics

96. Michael Abraham, CTO Circle Limit Media

97. Ryan Born, CEO of AudioMicro

98. Ben Widhelm, CTO of Elephant Drive

99. Richard Blakely, CEO of Influxis

100. Peter Lee, Partner Baroda Ventures

101. Michael Jones, COO of MySpace

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Who's Speaking

  • Peter Guber

    Peter Guber

    Chairman and CEO, Mandalay Entertainment

    Peter Guber

    Peter Guber

    Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, the visionary multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, sports, and new media, Peter Guber is among the most successful executives in the entertainment and communications industries. Films he personally produced or executive produced, including "Rain Man," "Batman," "The Color Purple," "Midnight Express," "Gorillas In The Mist," "The Witches of Eastwick," "Missing," and "Flashdance," have earned more than three billion dollars worldwide and garnered more than fifty Academy Award nominations.

    Tapped for his wisdom and expertise, Guber appears as a media and entertainment analyst on numerous network and cable shows. He can be seen as co-host of In the House, a half-hour news and interview show focused on industry trends in pop culture. Guber can also be seen on the NBC-owned Los Angeles outlet KNBC, as co-host of Show Business with Bart and Guber. This weekly show features discussion and analysis specifically designed for Los Angeles’ showbiz community.

    Peter Guber is a noted author and in December 2007 wrote the cover article for the Harvard Business Review titled,” The Four Truths of the Storyteller.” He has since authored op-ed pieces for the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is currently writing a business book to be published by Crown Publishing Group in the Fall of 2010. Guber is a full professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and has been a member of the faculty for over 30 years.

    Mandalay Entertainment Group

  • Paul Graham

    Paul Graham

    Founder of Y-Combinator

    Paul Graham

    Paul Graham

    Paul Graham is an essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. In 2002 he described a simple statistical spam filter that inspired a new generation of filters. He’s currently working on a new programming language called Arc, a new book on startups, and is one of the partners in Y Combinator.

    ycombinator.com

  • Richard Rosenblatt

    Richard Rosenblatt

    Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Demand Media

    Richard Rosenblatt

    Richard Rosenblatt

    As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies.

    Richard has built, operated and sold numerous Internet media companies with a combined value of more than $1.3 billion. Most recently, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Intermix Media, Inc., and Chairman of Myspace.com. He joined Intermix in March 2004 and led a successful turnaround of its existing business. Specifically, he helped grow Myspace.com from an unknown website to one of the most popular properties on the Internet and developed a number of new online properties, significantly increasing shareholder value. During his eighteen months as CEO of Intermix, its public market capitalization grew from $70 million to over $650 million, until acquired by News Corporation in October 2005.

    As Founder, Chairman and CEO, Richard sold iMALL in 1999 to Excite@Home for $565 million. iMALL was one of the first Internet companies to recognize the power of user-generated content. It offered users a suite of tools that enabled them to build their own eCommerce stores and conduct transactions over the Internet.

    Richard is actively involved in a number of private Internet companies and serves as non-executive chairman of iCrossing, a leading digital and natural search firm. Richard is a Southern California native, with a BA from UCLA and JD from USC Law School.

    Demand Media

  • Om Malik

    Om Malik

    Founder Giga Omni Media

    Om Malik

    Om Malik

    Om Malik is the founder and senior writer for GigaOm. Before launching his own publishing venture, Om was a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine covering telecom and broadband stories. He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures.

    gigaom.com

  • Lisa Stone

    Lisa Stone

    Co-Founder and CEO of BlogHer

    Lisa Stone

    Lisa Stone

    Lisa Stone is the co-founder and CEO of BlogHer the leading participatory news, entertainment and information network for women online, reaching more than 15 million women each month via annual conferences, a Web hub, and an publishing network of more than 2,500 qualified, contextually targeted blog affiliates.

    BlogHer.com

  • Eric Ries

    Eric Ries

    The Lean Startup

    Eric Ries

    Eric Ries

    Eric Ries is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the lean startup methodology. He is a frequent public speaker. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms.

    StartupLessonsLearned.com

  • Bambi Francisco

    Bambi Francisco

    Founder and CEO, Vator.tv

    Bambi Francisco

    Bambi Francisco

    Bambi Francisco is founder and CEO of Vator.tv, a leading platform for entrepreneurs and innovators to broadcast and communicate with industry professionals, and VatorNews, a video business network. Prior to Vator, Bambi was an award-winning columnist and correspondent at Dow Jones MarketWatch, where she had 400,000 subscribers to her newsletter. She was a morning business anchor for KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco and made frequent appearances as an expert on Internet investments and trends on CNBC, Fox Business News, and CBS.

    Wikipedia

  • Leila Chirayath Janah

    Leila Chirayath Janah

    Founder and CEO, Samasource

    Leila Chirayath Janah

    Leila Chirayath Janah

    Leila first developed the idea behind Samasource while working as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.), where her clients included global leaders in the outsourcing and telecom sectors and a number of prominent non-profits. Along with Professors Thomas Pogge and Aidan Hollis, she founded Incentives for Global Health and helped produce a plan for incentivizing the development of new drugs for neglected diseases. As an undergradudate, Leila authored background papers for the World Bank's Development Research Group and Ashoka on equity and social rights. Leila is a recipient of the Rainer Arnhold and TEDIndia Fellowships, and serves on the San Francisco board of the Social Enterprise Institute. She is a former Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Program on Global Justice and the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Australian National University. When she's not running Samasource, Leila blogs on Social Edge and tries to keep up with her Twitter account. She holds a B.A. from Harvard University.

    Samasource.org

  • Robert Scoble

    Robert Scoble

    Technology Blogger

    Robert Scoble

    Robert Scoble

    Robert Scoble is a blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft.

    Scobleizer.com

  • Dave McClure

    Dave McClure

    Seed stage investor for the Founders Fund

    Dave McClure

    Dave McClure

    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.

    Dave is an investor in over 30 startup companies including: Mint (acquired by Intuit), SlideShare, Twilio, Credit Karma, UserVoice, Bit.ly, CrowdFlower, KissMetrics, TeachStreet, RichRelevance, Mashery, and Simply Hired, among many others.

    From 2005-2006, Dave launched and ran marketing for job search engine Simply Hired. From 2001-2004, Dave was Director of Marketing at PayPal (acquired by eBay in 2002), where he started & ran the PayPal Developer Network program. Prior to PayPal, Dave was a database consultant & programmer for several companies, including Microsoft and Intel. In 1994 he founded Aslan Computing, an internet and e-commerce firm later acquired by Servinet/Panurgy in 1998.

    Dave is the co-founder of Startup2Startup and Finance4Founders, two monthly dinner series for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors. He has been chairperson and organizer for several tech and startup conferences including STARTonomics, Graphing Social Patterns, and Web 2.0 Expo (SF). He has been a visiting lecturer on social networking platforms and applications at Stanford University. Dave has been an advisor to microfinance organizations Unitus & Kiva, and co-founder of the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network. He graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in Mathematical Sciences Engineering.

    Dave McClure

  • Rick Heitzmann

    Rick Heitzmann

    Managing Director of FirstMark Capital

    Rick Heitzmann

    Rick Heitzmann

    Rick Heitzmann, is the Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, a $2 billion VC fund focusing on investments in the emerging media & advertising and data & analytics sectors. Prior to founding FirstMark Capital, Rick was a Partner with Pequot Ventures. Rick led Pequot’s investments in StubHub (Acquired by eBay), First Advantage (NASDAQ: FADV) and US Search. Rick has led and sits on the board of 4 FirstMark portfolio companies, including Clickable, Weplay, Live Gamer and Riot Games.

    FirstMark Capital

  • Brian Solis

    Brian Solis

    New Media Author and Consultant

    Brian Solis

    Brian Solis

    Brian Solis is globally recognized as one of most prominent thought leaders in new media. A digital analyst, sociologist, and futurist, Solis has influenced the effects of emerging media on the convergence of marketing, communications, and publishing. He is principal of FutureWorks, an award-winning New Media agency in Silicon Valley, and has led interactive and social programs for Fortune 500 companies, notable celebrities, and Web 2.0 startups. BrianSolis.com is ranked among the top of world's leading business and marketing online resources.

    BrianSolis.com

  • Alex Quilici

    Alex Quilici

    Co-founder of Quack.com, CEO of YouMail

    Alex Quilici

    Alex Quilici

    Alex Quilici was the co-founder of voice-portal company Quack.com (acquired by AOL), and is currently CEO of YouMail. Quilici is also a member of the board of directors of NeoEdge Networks and a member of Tech Coast Angels. Quilici received a PhD in computer science from UCLA, and from 1991-1999 was a faculty member at the University of Hawaii.

    Wikipedia

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February 9th-10th, 2011

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Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N Sepulveda Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90049

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