FoundersCard: Passport to the Entrepreneurial Lifestyle

Published on September 1st, 2010 by Christian

FoundersCard is a members-only community made up of leading entrepreneurs and innovators. The community’s mission is to support these risk-takers, who are doing the real leg work in rebuilding the economy, by offering unparalleled rates and benefit from the world’s top brands. Members can also take advantage of regular invitation-only networking events as well as online networking opportunities.

Among the most popular benefits members enjoy are:
  • Equinox Fitness: One month VIP All-Access membership featuring personal training and complimentary massage.
  • AT&T Wireless: 10% off of all voice and data plans, excluding unlimited voice.
  • W Hotels & Resorts: Exclusive rates up to 75% off.
  • Virgin Atlantic Airways: Up to 13% off travel on all routes and classes of service, as well as complimentary Flying Club Elite Status.
  • Starwood: Complimentary SPG Corporate Preferred including room upgrade at check-in and late 4pm checkout.
To learn more, visit SF Beta’s exclusive guest preview of FoundersCard’s members-only site at: http://founderscard.com/sfbeta

Welcome to 1Ring, our newest Community Sponsor

Published on September 1st, 2010 by Christian

1ring.com is an unconventional and innovative marketing service for storing information about the things you’re interested in. Using any mobile phone, without Internet connection requested, 1ring.com is the new webgate for real world: it’s easy, available 24/7, in every language, and it’s free!

1ring.com allows companies to have a profiled demand analysis at an affordable price.

Announcing our Demoists for SF Beta 4.0.4

Published on August 18th, 2010 by Christian

We’re proud to welcome a dozen innovators for our Unconventional Advertising & Marketing demo theme:


Digg Ads enable advertisers to seamlessly integrate their content into the Digg experience. While the ads look and feel like organic news stories, Digg Ads are created by advertisers to reach users in a unique, Digg-esque way. Brands can engage everyday users and influencers as they discover and curate content online.


The web’s first commission-free ad marketplace. You determine your packages, pricing, and who you sell to. iSocket handles the painful parts like payments and ad serving.


Brushfire Media Group places advertisers inside personalized social media posts and then donates proceeds to user-selected charities.


Ruxter gives businesses, organizations, and individuals the ability to create a mobile website, and to communicate with your on-the-go customers and members.


Inacronyms are a fast way to tell people about yourself using symbols that represent your profile. Have fun, meet others, and advertise yourself using symbols that say more about you than words!


TRAFFIQ is a web-based media management platform built for ad agencies and advertisers alike. We make buying digital media easier and more efficient, letting you grow your business faster with less pain and more control.


Groupable is a community of groups and sponsors looking to match interests, goals, passions and needs. Groupable connects self-organized, grass-roots entities looking for corporate sponsorship, with corporations looking to reach potential audiences.


Adility connects your business with local customers — online, offline, socially, and via mobile. Use Adility to promote gift cards, value cards, and coupons to local audiences reaching the hundreds of thousands.


Much more than a business or social network, E.Factor provides you with the people, the tools, and the expertise to succeed.


Achieve high ROI with simple and effective retargeting and display advertising solutions. Learn how retargeting works and launch a campaign in minutes.


Widgetbox empowers advertisers with ClickTurn, driving innovation in the display ad industry by turning ad units from static flash files into live applications rich in dynamic content and engagement.


July Systems is the pioneer of the mobile media industry. July Systems’ Mi™ Platform offers end to end solutions that enable brands publish, distribute, monetize inventory and personalize services for consumers on the mobile internet.

isocket: The web’s first commission-free ad platform

Published on August 4th, 2010 by Christian

isocket has just joined us as our first demoist for our Sept. 15 event. Welcome, guys!

isocket makes buying and selling premium banner ads a breeze. As the web’s first commission-free ad platform, we take the pain out of self-service campaigns and direct sales. isocket powers ad sales for some of the web’s top blogs, including TechCrunch and the Cheezburger Network.

The problem: trying to sell your own web ads to buyers is a painful, manual process. You have to package your inventory, promote it, email back and forth with potential buyers, generate invoices, schedule ad servers, send metrics reports, and on and on. isocket takes care of the painful parts and lets you focus on building relationships and your website. And the best part? We’re commission-free, so you keep more of what you earn!

Welcome to ZeroCater, Our New Sponsor

Published on August 4th, 2010 by Christian

We’re proud to welcome in ZeroCater as our newest sponsor. ZeroCater manages meal-catering services, with a particular focus on serving Bay Area startups. They manage all the tedious aspects of catering an office: paying the bills, scheduling delivery, accommodating Bob’s gluten-free allergy, and so on.

ZeroCater is the brainchild of Arram Sabeti. While working at Justin.tv, he was responsible for managing the catering for the office. The process took up so much of his time that he knew there had to be a better way. Thus, ZeroCater was born, and now counts Justin.tv among their fast-growing list of clients.

ZeroCater will be providing us with food for our next event, in what is decidedly the tastiest sponsorship in our four-year history.

Join us for our 4th Anniversary on September 15

Published on August 3rd, 2010 by Christian

Holy A-Round, Batman! SF Beta celebrates four full years of awesomeness this September. Join us for an epic evening as we move on to Year 5.

Our demo theme is Unconventional Advertising. We’re looking for companies that are redefining advertising, creating new, novel, and innovative ways of capturing interest and attention. Stay tuned for a list of who’s joining us — the results may surprise you.

Register for SF Beta on Wednesday, September 15.

Our most successful SF Beta ever!

Published on July 20th, 2010 by Christian

Thank you to everyone who came out last week to our most successful SF Beta in history! With over 550 people registered, we beat our previous registration record by almost 100 people. The last time we had a room so packed, Powerset (remember them?) used our event to show the first public glimpse of their site.

As your organizer, I was both humbled and exhilarated to see so many people attend. In addition to the capacity crowd, we had ten startups demo, two drink companies promote their tasty beverages (thanks, Honest Tea and Magner’s!), and GoGrid was with us, as always, introducing people to their stellar cloud hosting services.

SF Beta makes enough money to pay my bills, but it’s first and foremost a labor of love, and nights like the last one make all the hard work worth it.

Thanks again, and see you next time!

Welcome to our demoists!

Published on July 9th, 2010 by Christian

We’re pleased to announce a big group of demoists for our event next week. Here’s a list of everyone who’s confirmed so far:

Bee.tv

Bee.TV provides personalized TV and movie recommendations based on your tastes and preferences for broadcast, online, and iPhone. Never miss a favorite show and find new ones, write and read reviews, share with Facebook and Twitter. Check out our online beta at http://www.bee.tv with beta code: sfbeta

Doochoo

Doochoo is much more than just another application think tank — the Doochoo project is about revolutionizing the way opinions on the web carry meaning, starting with some applications, followed by a proprietary platform that will give opinions on the web tangibility and critical weight.

Envolve

Launching at SF Beta! Envolve lets you have topical group chats, private one-on-one conversations, and can do real-time translation in over 50 languages; all of these give your visitors an engaging experience that promotes your brand while increasing time-on-site.

Cisco Eos

Cisco Eos is a hosted software platform that enables Media & Entertainment companies to more economically deliver and effectively monetize social entertainment experiences around branded content.

Reachoo

Reachoo is a revolutionary, free, video classifieds website that connects the local community and assists sellers and buyers within the community to make transactions with ease.

Spreaker

People’s Choice Winner! Spreaker is a social service which lets anybody create his own radio show (talk, music, entertainment) and broadcast it live on facebook, mobile phones and internet-enabled radios. Listeners can enjoy single streams or create their personal radio station stitching together several shows.

LazyFeed

People’s Choice Winner! Lazyfeed is a unique service that provides a super-lazy way of blogging by actually “feeding” you stuff to talk about. Just follow any topics you want, and watch Lazyfeed deliver all the articles, videos, and photos related to those topics. Never worry about running out of inspiration. Endlessly talk about everything you love.

Diffbot

People’s Choice Winner! Diffbot is a seed stage web startup focused on leveraging statistical learning algorithms to achieving the holy grail a truly personalized newspaper that is not limited to structured data sources.

Loudcaster

People’s Choice Winner! The future of radio is on-line, not satellites or towers. Loudcaster enables anyone to create and DJ a interactive on-line radio station. We believe the next generation of broadcasting will come from giving people the power to easily create radio and interact with their audience.

Vote now in our People’s Choice competition!

Published on July 7th, 2010 by Christian

SF Beta is just days away. We need your help choosing an amazing group of startups to demo. Cast your vote in our People’s Choice competition and help decide the winner!

Special thanks to UserVoice for providing us with a great voting service.

Celebrate 10 Million Stumblers with StumbleUpon!

Published on June 14th, 2010 by Christian

This Thursday, swing by 111 Minna Gallery (the same home as SF Beta) for an all-night dance party celebrating StumbleUpon’s 10 Million Stumblers! With DJs, giveaways, signature cocktails, live entertainment, and hundreds of fellow Stumblers, this is a party you won’t want to miss. Best of all — and quite unlike SF Beta — it’s free!

MEET other Stumblers and the SU Team!
WIN one of the 5 iPads being raffled!
SNAP photos in the Glass Coat Photobooth – http://www.glasscoatphotobooth.com/!
WATCH Sirron Norris do a live painting – http://www.sirronnorris.com/!
SIP StumbleUpon signature cocktails!
GET SU schwag – http://www.zazzle.com/stumbleupon!

DANCE tunes provided by:

DJ Spesh – http://www.djspesh.com/ – 8pm
DJ Ts & Roll (life/style) – http://www.lifestyletimes.blogspot.com/- 9:30pm
DJ Danny White of IndieSlash – http://www.dannywhitesf.com/ – 11pm

Interested in going? RSVP on Facebook.