If you have an idea for your startup idea, share it here on our new startup, Trogger. We’ll give it feedback ourselves, as will other members of our community. Whether you’re at the earliest stages, or have a working URL, we’re happy to offer our constructive feedback
Thanks so much to everyone who came last night and made it our biggest and most exciting SFbeta’s ever! We’d love your feedback, and Virgance wants your questions!
Head over to our new company site on Trogger, and let us know what you think:
http://trogger.com/tags/sfbeta
http://trogger.com/tags/virgance
We’d also love feedback on the site itself. You can email that to me at cep [at] rfop [dot] biz, or post it here:
http://trogger.com/discussions/what-do-you-think-of-trogger-s-new-design
As you may have seen on TechCrunch, we will be hosting the launch party of Powerset co-founder Steve Newcomb’s new company, Virgance.
A brief summary from the article:
“Virgance focuses on fostering and promoting benevolent, wide-reaching and important campaigns that also stand a good chance to make money. The Virgance engineering team, headed by VP of Engineering Naseem Hakim (who helped build the very popular Facebook app Circle of Friends), is building a platform designed to help promote these campaigns across a number of social platforms. Newcomb describes the platform as “the next iteration of what President Obama did” - leveraging the power of social media to reach the masses. But these campaigns are not simply about raising awareness - they have to let the community somehow interact, and they have to have a solid business model. Depending on the campaign, Virgance gets a portion of the incoming revenues.”
At our next SF Beta, we’ll be featuring the ventures and adventures of Virgance, with tons of bloggers, press, and investors in attendance. This is definitely NOT the beta to miss this year.
So I just wrote up a quick post summarizing my advice for men working the tech parties for a date. This is just written from my personal experience, so feel free to keep your own style and hope for the best. But hopefully it offers some guidance and assitance for getting that special someone:
http://troggerpath.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/find-that-entrepreneurial-valentine/
PS: Thats the blog for our new start-up venture; so feel free to check it out. We’d love your eyes and thoughts.
You are invited to enter your business pitch for a chance to win an exclusive interview on CBS5.
Join the Big Success Business Pitch Contest, the nation’s first video business pitch contest on Facebook!
Here is how it works…
Upload Pitch
Upload your 90 seconds pitch video on YouTube. If you are not sure what to say…check out this article What makes a great 90 second business pitch?
Join Contest
Entrepreneurs who join this contest expose their business to the Facebook community before quarterly deadlines. Next deadline: March 20, 2009 12:00 a.m.
Get Votes
Share your Big Success pitch with friends and anyone who needs to know about your business.
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How to Win?
The top three voted entrepreneurs will be selected to pitch and compete to be a quarterly winner in front of a live audience and a panel of judges consisting of seasoned entrepreneurs/potential investors. The quarterly winner will be determined by the panel of judges and receive a prize of being featured on San Francisco TV station CBS5.
Next live contest: Week of March 23rd
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And what else – the Grand Prize…
Each quarterly winner also becomes one of the finalists for the Big Success Finale which will take place on BizTechDay, the annual technology day for small business which will be held on October 22-23 this year in San Francisco. The 2009 Big Success Champion will receive a 30-minute exclusive interview on CBS5 and win a free trip to Miami.
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What are you waiting for? Tell the world about your business.
We just secured our venue for 2009; w00t!
So join us for post-holiday melt-down at 111 Minna on January 13th from 5pm - 9pm. More info to come, but you can register at http://sfbeta3p1.eventbrite.com
So there won’t be an SF Beta until next year, but that doesn’t mean we cant party!
Come check out SNAP Summit on October 28th - the premier San Francisco conference on Social Applications and Widgets. It follows a Sold Out spring conference, so be sure to check it out with this SF Beta discount.
Also be sure to check out NewTeeVee; they are offering a special discount to our members. :) NewTeeVee Live is the premier event showcasing the online video industry’s hottest topics, most talented video producers, promising technologies, leading innovators and top funding executives.
Discount tickets are currently on sale for Room Full of People’s largest conference: SNAP Summit.
While the agenda has not been announced yet, I can tell you already that it will be as strong or better than our last event back in March (info at http://www.snapsummit.com.)
Pick up tickets at http://snapsummit3.eventbrite.com
Hmm, had a little Facebook mix-up, which led me to check here and see that I didnt even get the new SF Beta launched on our blog! ACK! So here are the details!
SF Beta is back to help kick off the school year! Get your work brain ticking with inspiring demos, intelligent companions, and entertaining conversations at our home at 111 Minna. Also, please be sure to check out ServePath and Force10 Networks our two wonderful sponsors. You can find information and register to demo at http://www.sfbeta.com and pick up tickets at http://sfbeta2p6.eventbrite.com
Im sorry to say that all Demo places have been taken. But keep an eye on our wiki for the next SF Beta to open up. 
So it’s still a ways out, but we are eternally prepared for a good time. Mark your calendar’s for the next SF Beta: 2.5!
Join us at our home at 111 Minna on Tuesday, July 22nd from 5:00pm to 9:00pm (New Time!) for some midsummer fun, networking, and demos. I have now opened our demo slots on the wiki, so go ahead and hold a spot for your company. Many thanks to our marvelous sponsors: ServePath and Force10, who continue to let us produce this event. You can register for tickets at
http://sfbeta2p5.eventbrite.com
Write or post if you have any questions, and I look forward to seeing you all there!
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